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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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During the Reconstruction period after the American Civil War, popular name for the U.S. Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, established by Congress to provide practical aid to 4,000,000 newly freed African Americans in their transition from slavery to freedom.

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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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An actor John Wilkes Booth entered the presidential box at Ford's Theatre in Washington D.C., and fatally shot President Lincoln.

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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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When Andrew Johnson became President of the United States upon the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln, and ended his term on March 4, 1869. He had been Vice President of the United States for only 42 days when he succeeded to the presidency.

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a series of statutes and laws enacted in 1865 and 1866 by the legislatures of the Southern states following the end of the Civil War at the beginning of the Reconstruction Era.

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Dec 6, 1865:  13th Amendment is ratified 

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Dec 6, 1865:  13th Amendment is ratified 

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the 13th amendment abolished slavery in the United States and provides that "Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.".

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Declared all male persons born in the United States to be citizens, "without distinction of race or color, or previous condition of slavery or involuntary servitude."

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The Memphis massacre of 1866 was a series of violent events that occurred from the 1-3, 1866.

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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 overrode President Andrew Johnson's veto to enact the first of four Reconstruction Acts.
The First Reconstruction Act required each Southern state to ratify the 14th Amendment prior to readmission to Congress

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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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The Amendment grants citizenship to all persons born or naturalized in the United States, which included former slaves who had just been freed after the Civil War

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 Winter 1868: Southern Constitutional Conventions including freedman

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 Winter 1868: Southern Constitutional Conventions including freedman

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Met up in Charleston with a majority of Black delegates.

The Black codes that flourish under the constitution of 1865 were overturned.

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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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It granted African American men the right to vote

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1875 Mississippi Plan or “Shotgun Policy”

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1875 Mississippi Plan or “Shotgun Policy”

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President grant send federal troops to South Carolina but not Mississippi to stop the violence

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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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Promises to protect civil and political rights of black were not kept and the end federal interference in southern affairs led to widespread disenfranchisement of black voters.