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On April 14, 1865, John Wilkes Booth, a famous actor and Confederate sympathizer, fatally shot President Abraham Lincoln at a play at Ford’s Theater in Washington, D.C. The attack came only five days after Confederate General Robert E. Lee surrendered his massive army at Appomattox Court House, Virginia, effectively ending the American Civil War.

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political role of African Americans during Reconstruction

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political role of African Americans during Reconstruction

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Hiram Revels became the first African American to serve in Congress. As an African American, he was not alone in serving in government during Reconstruction. Between 1865 and 1877, many African Americans served in state and local politics.

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The news paper article after the civil war. And  immediately after the presidential election of 1876, it became clear that the outcome of the race hinged largely on disputed returns from Florida, Louisiana and South Carolina–the only three states in the South with Reconstruction time, Republican governments still in power. As a bipartisan congressional commission debated over the outcome early in 1877, allies of the Republican Party candidate Rutherford Hayes met in secret with moderate southern Democrats in order to negotiate acceptance of Hayes’ election.

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The Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands. It usually referred to as simply the Freedmen's Bureau, was a U.S. federal government agency. It established in 1865 to aid freedmen freed slaves.
It was a law to free slaves from the South.

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After the civil war their was a rebuilding of the states and the building to get the United states work well again. The period after the Civil War in which the states formerly part of the Confederacy were brought back into the United States. During Reconstruction, the South was divided into military districts for the supervision of elections to set up new state governments. It help the United states get back in order.