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13th Amendment is ratified- January 31, 1865

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13th Amendment is ratified- January 31, 1865

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This amendment made slavery illegal

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Freedmen’s Bureau created- March 3, 1865

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Freedmen’s Bureau created- March 3, 1865

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A bureau created to assist the millions of free slaves

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Abraham Lincoln is assassinated- April 15, 1865

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Abraham Lincoln is assassinated- April 15, 1865

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The 16th president of the United States is assassinated by John Wilkes Booth

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Andrew Johnson becomes president- April 15, 1865

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Andrew Johnson becomes president- April 15, 1865

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Andrew Johnson becomes the 17th president of United States following Lincolns assassination

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Black codes were laws passed to keep blacks in a position of servitude and disadvantage

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The American White supremacist group known as the KKK is formed; primarily targeting African Americans

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This was an attempt on gaining citizenship to blacks but it was vetoed by Andrew Jackson

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White citizens of Memphis attacked a black community in protest to the newly freed blacks

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This was the plan of letting the southern states back into the union.

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Southern constitutional conventions including freedman- 1868

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Southern constitutional conventions including freedman- 1868

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It was a convention held in South Carolina that was made to discuss the regulations of Virginia following the war

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14th Amendment is ratified- July 9, 1868

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14th Amendment is ratified- July 9, 1868

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The 14th Amendment gave blacks citizenship

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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 Amendment gave blacks the right to vote

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Mississippi Plan or “Shotgun Policy”- 1876

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Mississippi Plan or “Shotgun Policy”- 1876

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It was a plan by white democrats to overthrow the republicans following the war

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It was the official end of the reconstruction period of the south and ended the quarrel between the north and the south