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Freedmen's Bureau Created (March 3rd, 1865) 

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Freedmen's Bureau Created (March 3rd, 1865) 

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Congress passed "An Act to establish a Bureau for the Relief of Freedmen and Refugees." This provided them with food, shelter, clothing, medical services,and land to displaced Southerners, this included newly freed African Americans.

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Abraham Lincoln is Assassinated (April 15th 1865)

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Abraham Lincoln is Assassinated (April 15th 1865)

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His "blueprint" for reconstruction included the Ten-Percent plan. This meant that a Southern state was only allowed to be admitted back into the Union once 10% of their voters swore and oath of allegiance to the Union.

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Andrew Johnson Becomes President (April 15th, 1865)

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Andrew Johnson Becomes President (April 15th, 1865)

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Andrew Johnson's plan of Reconstruction gave the white South a free hand in regulating the transition from slavery to freedom. He offered no role to blacks in the politics of the South. By the end of the Civil War the nation still didn't have a settled Reconstruction policy.

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Black codes were laws put in place against African Americans to limit their freedoms, it also ensured their availability as a cheap labor force during the Civil War.

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13th Amendment is ratified (December 6th, 1865)

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13th Amendment is ratified (December 6th, 1865)

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Ratified means, to sign or give formal consent, that makes a treaty, contract, or agreement official/valid. The 13th Amendment formally abolished slavery in the United States. It stated that neither slavery nor involuntary servitude was allowed.

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The KKK extended into almost every southern state by 1870. They became a conveyance for white Southern resistance. The members waged an underground campaign of intimidation and violence.

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This act ended segregation in public places and banned employment discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, or national origin.

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Member of the "White majority" attacked Black residents of Memphis, Tennessee. They did this because most Southerners refused to share civil or social rights with newly freed Blacks. The events lasted from May 1-3, and both White policemen and residents attacked, robbed, committed acts of arson, and killed black residents.

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Reconstruction Acts of 1867 (March 2, 1867)

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Reconstruction Acts of 1867 (March 2, 1867)

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The Reconstruction Act, was a process made to readmit Southern states into the Union. The main features that it included was the creation of 5 military districts, each district was to be headed by a military official, and each state had to ratify the 14th Amendment.

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14th Amendment is ratified (July 28, 1868)

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14th Amendment is ratified (July 28, 1868)

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The 14th Amendment granted citizenship to "all persons born or naturalized in the United States." This included former slaves that were recently freed.

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Constitutional conventions are an informal and uncodified procedural agreement that is followed by the institutions of the state.

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15th Amendment is ratified (February 3, 1870)

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15th Amendment is ratified (February 3, 1870)

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The 15th granted African American men the right to vote, "right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude."

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Mississippi Plan or "Shotgun Policy" (1875)

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Mississippi Plan or "Shotgun Policy" (1875)

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This plan 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.

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After the 1876 election (Compromise of 1877)

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After the 1876 election (Compromise of 1877)

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This was a 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 Reconstruction era.