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Established by congress to help free'd slaves and poor white people in the southern after the Civil War. It offered housing, food, medical aid, and established schools.

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On April 15, 1865 President Abraham Lincoln was shot in the back of the head by John Wilkes Booth while attending a theatre play. He was then taken across the street where he passed away. Abraham Lincoln proposed a reconstruction program that allowed the Confederate to establish new state governments but had 10% of their male population take a loyalty oath.

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After Abraham Lincoln died Vice President Andrew Johnson became the new president. His view on reconstruction was that there is no such thing as reconstruction and that the states are still a union. Andrew Johnson was from the south so he believed in the southerners' thoughts more than the northern.

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Black codes was a law that restricted certain jobs that African Americans can hold and ability to leave after being hired. It also limited the rights of black people. Some states put restrictions on property black people can own.

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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, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.

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The Ku Klux Klan was created

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Congress over-ruled President Andrew Johnson's veto on The Civil Rights Bill.

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Hundreds of freemen were killed, forty-six Blacks, seventy-five were wounded,  Five Black women were raped by whites, and twelve schools and four churches were burned. Union veterans were especially targeted.

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The time in which Abraham Lincoln tried to reconstruct the US after the civil war and destroying the south.

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A failed American treaty during the later Reconstruction Era, initiated by American President Ulysses S. Grant.

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Everyone US citizen is protected with all rights

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sent federal troops into South Carolina to protect African-Americans’ civil rights, but failed to send federal troops into Louisiana and other southern states when Reconstruction began to fail there

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abolished debtors’ prison, provided for public education, abolished property ownership as a qualification for office holding, granted some rights to women, and created counties.

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Gave African Americans the right to vote.

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Democrats organized a white militia to directly challenge the mostly black state militia under the control of the governor.

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The Mississippi Plan used intimidation of black voters and outright fraud to guarantee that white Democrats would take control of the state government.

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It was an unwritten deal to settle who won the election. Rutherford B. Hayes was elected understanding he had to take the federal troops out of South Carolina, Florida and Louisiana.