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-Provides assistance to emancipated African Americans.

-Abolished in 1872.

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-The original plan was not to kill Lincoln but to kidnap him.

-He was shot while watching a play at the Ford's Theater.

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-Johnson was impeached in 1868.

-Vice President Andrew Johnson becomes president the next morning after Lincoln's death.

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-Southern states enact laws restricting rights of African Americans.

-The laws were intended to control economic, political, and social freedom.

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Slave Codes: Crash Course Black American History #4

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-It was ratified on December 6, 1865

-The amendment was to abolish slavery and involuntary servitude in the U.S.

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-A secret organization to intimidate African Americans and restore white rule is founded in Pulaski, Tennessee.

-The group's primary goal was to restore white supremacy in the South.

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-The law granted all persons born in the U.S. (except American Indians) full citizenship and the equal benefit of all laws.

-It was the first United States federal law.

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-White civilians and police kill 46 African Americans and destroy 90 houses, schools, and four churches in Memphis, Tennessee.

-The mob murdered 46 African Americans.

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-Congress divides the former Confederacy into five military districts and requires elections in which African American men can vote.

-President Andrew Johnson vetoed the Reconstruction Act, but it was still passed by congress.

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-The amendment was ratified on July 9th, 1868.

-Guarantees due process and equal protection under the law to African Americans.

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-These conventions, held across the former Confederate states, were instrumental in dismantling the discriminatory Black Codes and setting the stage for readmission to the Union

-Freedmen participated as delegates for the first time, wielding significant political power to advocate for civil rights and educational opportunities.

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-Extends the vote to all male citizens regardless of racer or previous condition of servitude.

-It is was ratified February 3rd, 1870.

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1870 Mississippi Plan or “Shotgun Policy”

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1870 Mississippi Plan or “Shotgun Policy”

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-It was a strategy of systematic and organized violence, fraud, and intimidation used by white Democrats.

-The plan was a significant part of the "Redemption" movement, in which white Southerners sought to dismantle the gains of the Reconstruction era.

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-The Compromise of 1877 was an informal agreement between southern Democrats and allies of the Republican Rutherford Hayes to settle the result of the 1876 presidential election and marked the end of the Reconstruction era.

-One specific point of the compromise was no interference from the North regarding the Southern states treatment of African Americans.