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March 3, 1865 Freedmen's Bureau created
- Gives freed slaves education
Provides freed slaves with shelter, jobs and medical care

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-On April 15, 1865, Abraham Lincoln gets assassinated in the Fords theatre by John W. Booth

-He declared the war was over when Robert E. Lee surrendered

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April 15, 1865 Andrew Johnson becomes president

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-Black codes were meant to limit blacks freedom and made sure they were available for cheap labor.
- Freed blacks couldn't work anywhere but the fields.

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Dec 6, 1865 13th Amendment is ratified

-Slavery is abolished and the union is demobilizing in the south

the government starts to lose black politicians and confederates start to fill the government again

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December 24, 1865 the KKK is formed

- The KKK was formed to scare black people into not accept their freedom and stop them from voting.

The KKK was made up of white supremacist who were your ordinary police officers, teachers and nurses or doctors

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April 1866 Civil Rights Act of 1866

- All males have the same rights and freedoms as white males
-declared all persons born in the United States to be citizens, "without distinction of race or color, or previous condition of slavery.
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