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Congress passed “An Act to establish a Bureau for the Relief of Freedmen and Refugees” to provide food, shelter, clothing, medical services, and land to displaced Southerners

usually referred to as simply the Freedmen's Bureau, was a U.S. government agency of early post-American Civil War Reconstruction, assisting freedmen in the South

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President Abraham Lincoln signs the Emancipation Proclamation, declaring that the majority of the nation's slave population "henceforth shall be free."

President Lincoln announces the Proclamation of Amnesty and Reconstruction. It offers pardon and restoration of property

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Andrew Johnson became the 17th president of the United States on April 15, 1865, following the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln

As a War Democrat, Johnson, Lincoln's 1864 running mate, took over the presidency just as the Civil War was ending and was tasked with guiding the nation through Reconstruction

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The Third Amendment was ratified on December 15, 1791, along with the other amendments of the Bill of Rights.

This amendment prohibits the forced quartering of soldiers in private homes, protecting an individual's right to privacy and property.

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How the 13th amendment accidentally kept slavery alive. Amendment 13 explained!

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The Ku Klux Klan, commonly shortened to KKK or Klan, is an American Protestant-led Christian extremist, white supremacist, far-right hate group.

It was founded in 1865 during Reconstruction in the devastated South. Various historians have characterized the Klan as America's first terrorist group

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The United States' first civil rights legislation, enacted over President Andrew Johnson's veto

declaring all persons born in the U.S. to be citizens and establishing rights to property, contracts, and court protection

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The Memphis Race Riot, more accurately known as the Memphis Massacre of 1866, was a three-day spree of mob violence by white residents and police that targeted the city's Black community.

The massacre was a pivotal event in the Reconstruction era, revealing the intense racial tensions and white resistance to Black freedom in the post-Civil War South.

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a series of laws passed by the U.S. Congress that divided the former Confederate states into military districts under martial law

demanding they adopt new constitutions granting voting rights to Black men and ratify the Fourteenth Amendment to be readmitted to the Union

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 Southern constitutional conventions including freedman

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 Southern constitutional conventions including freedman

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Southern constitutional conventions, occurring under Congressional Reconstruction Acts

included significant participation from freedmen (Black men and women) and resulted in new state constitutions

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The 14th Amendment was ratified on July 9, 1868. Passed by Congress on June 13, 1866, this amendment is a critical part of the Reconstruction era, defining U.S

citizenship and prohibiting states from denying any person within their jurisdiction the rights to life, liberty, and property without due process of law or equal protection of the laws.

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This amendment prohibits states from denying any citizen the right to vote on account of "race, color

previous condition of servitude," effectively granting suffrage to African American men after the Civil War.

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The Mississippi Plan, also known as the "Shotgun Policy," was a campaign of organized violence, intimidation, and fraud used by white Southern Democrats

in 1875 to regain political control of Mississippi from Republicans and effectively end Reconstruction in the state.

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The Compromise of 1877, also known as the Wormley Agreement.

The Tilden-Hayes Compromise, the Bargain of 1877, or the Corrupt Bargain, was a speculated unwritten political deal in the United States