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March 3, 1865  Freedmen’s Bureau created

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March 3, 1865  Freedmen’s Bureau created

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this was created to help smooth the transition from slavery. It provided former slaves with immediate shelter and medical services. This was only suppose to last a year, but it ended up lasting longer. It ended up lasting until 1968

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April 15, 1865, Abraham Lincoln is assassinated 

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April 15, 1865, Abraham Lincoln is assassinated 

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In Lincoln last speech before his assassination, he talks about black suffrage for soldiers and others.  Six days before his assassination The Civil War ends when Confederate general Robert E. Lee surrenders to Union general Ulysses S. Grant.

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April 15, 1865, Andrew Johnson becomes president 

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April 15, 1865, Andrew Johnson becomes president 

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Andrew Johnson release people who have been charged with political offenses to all southerns who will swear loyalty to the union except slaves.  This reconstruction required states to ratify the 13th amendment which ends slavery.  President Johnson is growing leniency towards the white South, he orders all land that went to freed slaves returned back to its former owner.

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the 13th amendment was ratified and refuse to extend the vote to black men.  Black codes were laws that put restrictions on black citizens.  any black citizen who refuse to sign the labor contract can be punished for example, unemployed black men can be seized and auctioned to planters as laborers, black children can be taken from their families and made to work.

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Dec 6, 1865, the 13th Amendment is ratified

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Dec 6, 1865, the 13th Amendment is ratified

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This abolish slavery in the United States.

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A secret organization to intimidate African Americans and restore white rule is founded in Pulaski, Tennessee. The killed black men and threatened them.

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Confers citizenship on African Americans and guarantees equal rights.  president Johnson tries to veto it, but it didn't go through, this made this the first major piece of legislation enacted over a presidential veto.

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this was a racial violence rage that lasted three days on the streets of Tennessee which left 48 people dead, all of them nearly black and hundreds of black homes, churches, and schools have been pillaged or burned.

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March 2, 1867 - March 11, 1868, Reconstruction Acts of 1867

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March 2, 1867 - March 11, 1868, Reconstruction Acts of 1867

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

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July 28, 1868, 14th Amendment is ratified

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July 28, 1868, 14th Amendment is ratified

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Guarantees fair treatment and equal protection under the law to African Americans.

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Winter 1868: Southern Constitutional Conventions

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Winter 1868: Southern Constitutional Conventions

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Black and white lawmakers begin to work together in the southern states, this is the first political meeting in American history to include black people in a meeting.

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February 3, 1870, 15th Amendment is ratified

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February 3, 1870, 15th Amendment is ratified

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All male citizens can vote regardless of race or previous conditions of servitude.

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1875 Mississippi Plan or “Shotgun Policy”

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1875 Mississippi Plan or “Shotgun Policy”

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white men went to violence and intimidation against black and white republicans to regain political control of the states for conservative democrats

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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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Rutherford B. Hayes becomes president and  the Republicans agree to abandon Reconstruction policies in exchange for the presidency.  The South codifies and enforces segregation.Black civil rights will not need national attention again until after World War 2