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March 3, 1865  Freedmen’s Bureau created

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March 3, 1865  Freedmen’s Bureau created

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* Formally known as Bureau of Refugees
* Provided food, housing, and medical aide
* Established HBCUs

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April 15, 1865 Abraham Lincoln is assassinated

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April 15, 1865 Abraham Lincoln is assassinated

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* Booth fired his .44-caliber single-shot derringer pistol into Lincoln's head
* Booth lept onto the stage and said the Virginia state moto

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April 15, 1865 Andrew Johnson becomes president

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April 15, 1865 Andrew Johnson becomes president

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* Served only 42 days as vice-president before Lincoln's assassination
* He retained his seat in the Senate because he did not support seceding from the Union
* He was supposed to be assassinated along with Lincoln, but his assassinator backed out

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* Restricted rights of African Americans to:
- own property
- conduct business
- buy & lease land
- ability to move freely through public spaces

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* Made freedom premanant and freed those still in slavery

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* Nathan Bedford Forrest was the first grand wizard
* A group of Confederate soldiers convened in Pulasaki, Tennesse, to form the KKK

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* Declard all people born in the US as citizens
* President Andrew Johnson vetoed it, but then Congress overrode his veto

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* Began when a white police officer attempted to arrest a black veteran
* Ended with 46 African Americans dead, two dead whites, a policeman died from a self-inflicted gunshot, there were 5 rapes, and 285 people injured

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March 2, 1867 - March 11, 1868 Reconstruction Acts of 1867

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March 2, 1867 - March 11, 1868 Reconstruction Acts of 1867

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* Outlined the conditions in which the Southern states could be readmitted to the Union
- Needed to write a new constitution
- Required to ratify the 13th and 14th Amendments

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June 1870 Treaty of Annexation of Santo Domingo 

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June 1870 Treaty of Annexation of Santo Domingo 

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* President feared some European power would take the island, violating the Monroe doctrine
* Treaty failed because there was little support for ti outside of Grant's circle

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July 28, 1868 14th Amendment is ratified

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July 28, 1868 14th Amendment is ratified

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* Grants citizenship to all people born or naturalized in the United States
* Equal protections under laws

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* In 1870, he signed the 15th Amendment
* Ambitious hopes to protect the rights of formerly enslave people
* Congress passed first of four Force Acts
* His interest in Reconstruction waned when his attention became shifted to navigating the Panic of 1873

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Winter 1868: Southern Constitutional Conventions including freedman

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Winter 1868: Southern Constitutional Conventions including freedman

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* Men met for 53 working days
* Some were political newcomers and some were experienced soldiers
* Majority were African American

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February 3, 1870 15th Amendment is ratified

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February 3, 1870 15th Amendment is ratified

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* Granted suffrage for African American men

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* Mob of hundreds of white men killed 150 or more African Americans after attacking the Grant Parish courthouse
* Mob consisted of former Confederate soldiers and members of the Ku Klux Klan

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1875 Mississippi Plan or “Shotgun Policy”

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1875 Mississippi Plan or “Shotgun Policy”

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* Used intimidation of African American voters and fraud to ensure Democrats would take control of state government

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After the 1876 election Compromise of 1877

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After the 1876 election Compromise of 1877

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* Democrats allowed decision of electoral college to take effect
* Rutherford Hayes becomes president
* Troops pulled out of South