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Freedman's Bureau Created.            March 3, 1865

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Freedman's Bureau Created.            March 3, 1865

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The bureau is authorized and former slaves get help with finding homes and having medical services. It is the beginning process.

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April 15, 1865

A couple days before Lincoln is assassinated, he delivers a black suffrage speech, for men and women. Also, the Confederate general surrenders the civil war.

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April 15, 1865

After Lincoln is assassinated, Johnson becomes president.

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Fall 1865

Southern legislatures draft "black codes" to bring back white supremacy and they give restrictions on black citizens.

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Dec 6, 1865

Southern states experience a increasing surge of free people.

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December 24, 1865

Racial violence increases dramatically and blacks are threatened by a hate group named the Klu Klux Klan.

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April, 1866

It passes both houses of congress and all men of all color have rights.

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May 1, 1866

Racial Injustice and violence surged through Memphis' streets

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March 2, 1867 - March 11, 1868

The new policies divide the South into military districts and require the states to adopt new constitutions, introduce black suffrage, and ratify the Fourteenth Amendment.

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July 28, 1868

Citizenship to include all people born or naturalized in the U.S

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Winter 1868

Freedmen's conventions voiced the aspirations of North Carolina blacks, both those as free and former slaves.

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February 3, 1870

Right to vote are passed for all men.

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1875
Financial benefits were given to Blacks who supported the Democrat party.

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After the 1876 election

The United States federal government pullED the last troops out of the SoutH and ended the Reconstruction Era.