# data[].attributes.body
Freedmen’s Bureau created
- to provide food, shelter, clothing, medical services, and land to displaced Southerners, including newly freed African Americans.
-goal was to give opportunities to freed slaves

# data[].attributes.body
-John Wilkes Booth, a famous actor and Confederate sympathizer, assassinated President Abraham Lincoln at Ford's Theatre in Washington, D.C.

# data[].attributes.body
-Andrew Johnson became President of the United States upon the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln
-the most hated president because he was racist
-Lincoln picked him because he would be able to pull more Southern voters

# data[].attributes.body
-Black Codes was made to suppress black people.
-Under black codes, many states required blacks to sign yearly labor contracts; if they refused, they risked being arrested, fined and forced into unpaid labor. Outrage over black codes helped undermine support for President Andrew Johnson and the Republican Party.

# data[].attributes.body
13th Amendment
-abolished slavery in the United States and provides that "Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States.."

# data[].attributes.body
-The KKK rapidly grew from a secret social fraternity to a paramilitary force bent on reversing the federal government’s progressive Reconstruction Era-activities in the South, especially policies that elevated the rights of the local African American population.

# data[].attributes.body
-passed by Congress on 9th April 1866 over the veto of President Andrew Johnson.
-declared all male persons born in the United States to be citizens, "without distinction of race or color, or previous condition of slavery or involuntary servitude."

# data[].attributes.body
-a series of violent events
-The racial violence was ignited by political, social, and racial tensions following the American Civil War, in the early stages of Reconstruction.

# data[].attributes.headline
March 2, 1867 - March 11, 1868 Reconstruction Acts of 1867

# data[].attributes.subject
March 2, 1867 - March 11, 1868 Reconstruction Acts of 1867

# data[].attributes.body
- 1867 laid out the process for readmitting Southern states into the Union. The Fourteenth Amendment (1868) provided former slaves with national citizenship, and the Fifteenth Amendment (1870) granted black men the right to vote.

# data[].attributes.headline
July 28, 1868 14th Amendment is ratified

# data[].attributes.subject
July 28, 1868 14th Amendment is ratified

# data[].attributes.body
- it grants citizenship to “all persons born or naturalized in the United States” which included former slaves who had just been freed after the Civil War.

# data[].attributes.headline
Winter 1868: Southern Constitutional Conventions

# data[].attributes.subject
Winter 1868: Southern Constitutional Conventions

# data[].attributes.body
-It was the first Mississippi Constitution sent to the people for ratification. Among the provisions of the 1868 Constitution were: Voting rights for black males, as required by Congress.
-the former Confederate states were required to adopt new constitutions and ratify the 14th Amendment.

# data[].attributes.headline
February 3, 1870 15th Amendment is ratified

# data[].attributes.subject
February 3, 1870 15th Amendment is ratified

# data[].attributes.body
-granted African American men the right to vote. ... For more than 50 years, the overwhelming majority of African American citizens were reduced to second-class citizenship under the “Jim Crow” segregation system.

# data[].attributes.headline
1875 Mississippi Plan or “Shotgun Policy”

# data[].attributes.subject
1875 Mississippi Plan or “Shotgun Policy”

# data[].attributes.body
-called for the bribery or intimidation of black voters. Financial enticements were given to blacks who supported the Democrats, and violence was waged on others in order to convince them to join a Democratic club for protection.

# data[].attributes.headline
After the 1876 election Compromise of 1877

# data[].attributes.subject
After the 1876 election Compromise of 1877

# data[].attributes.body
-was an unwritten deal, informally arranged among U.S. Congressmen, that settled the intensely disputed 1876 presidential election. It resulted in the United States federal government pulling the last troops out of the South, and formally ending the Reconstruction Era.