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On January first, Abraham Lincoln signs the Emancipation Proclamation which ended slavery.

December 8th: Amnesty and Reconstruction- offers pardon and restoration of property, except for slaves.

(10 percent plan: 10 percent of former Confederate state's voters pledge the oath before Union readmissions.

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Early 1864: Abe Lincoln reconstructs Louisiana.

July: In response of Lincoln's 10 percent policy, congresses passes their own bill, the Wade-Davis Bill.

November 8: Lincoln get reelected

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This was a transition after slavery was abolished.

Preceding slaves were provided with immediate medical care and shelter, and some even land.

Andrew Johnson owned slaves and was a racist that didn't want slaves free at all.

He believed that each state should have choice to keep slaves or not.

The KKK was a white supremacist group who hated black people.

They sought to get rid of any group that was a minority including jews, blacks, people that were supported left side of government, and homosexuals.

Abe Lincoln gets assassinated (shot in the head)

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Civil Rights Act of 1866

Declared that all people born in the US were citizens no matter race, or any condition.

This prohibited discrimination of any kind and made it illegal.

May 1st: Memphis Race Riot

Racial violence was caused by political, social, and racial problems within society.

This was a 3 day riot within Memphis that had a lot o violence.

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1867- Southern constitutional conventions including freedman

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1867- Southern constitutional conventions including freedman

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Acts that laid out the process of southern states readmitting into the Union

It divided the former confederate states into 5 military districts

This also reimbursed the 14th and 15th amendment in the Southern states

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Said the rights of citizens of the United States to vote can't be denied on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude

This allowed black men to have power and have freedom

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1875- Mississippi Plan or “Shotgun Policy”

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1875- Mississippi Plan or “Shotgun Policy”

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Made by conservative white Democrats as part of the white revolt during the Reconstruction Era

It was made by Democratic Party to overthrow the Republican Party in Mississippi by organizing threats of violence and suppression or purchase of the black vote

Democrats wanted to regain political control of the legislature

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Informally arranged among congressmen that settled the 1876 election

Ended with the US federal government pulling the last troops out of South, and ending the Reconstruction Era