https://padlet.com/brownj9615/7yi8mj897gw4b06t en-us 2020-09-29 21:13:25 UTC 2021-09-22 12:52:09 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-uploads.storage.googleapis.com/753476534/d379a13a58abad7d4a3f24f1ba3b87ac/RtYDQTT2VYik0fwCJXnJIatcy5LXfSlJL99EjelrI64.png brownj9615 https://padlet.com/brownj9615/7yi8mj897gw4b06t/wish/789772127 .Freedmen's Bureau allows easy access to free rights
.Remains in operation until 1868

]]> 2020-09-29 22:08:52 UTC https://padlet.com/brownj9615/7yi8mj897gw4b06t/wish/789772127 brownj9615 https://padlet.com/brownj9615/7yi8mj897gw4b06t/wish/826441144 .Gives freedom to blacks and bans slavery
.Ratification completed in December.]]> 2020-10-13 19:38:19 UTC https://padlet.com/brownj9615/7yi8mj897gw4b06t/wish/826441144 brownj9615 https://padlet.com/brownj9615/7yi8mj897gw4b06t/wish/826458998 .President Abraham Lincoln is shot by John Wilkes Booth
.As a result Andrew Johnson becomes president]]> 2020-10-13 19:44:00 UTC https://padlet.com/brownj9615/7yi8mj897gw4b06t/wish/826458998 brownj9615 https://padlet.com/brownj9615/7yi8mj897gw4b06t/wish/826459137 .Southern Democrat Andrew Johnson, becomes president.
.President Johnson announces his plan of Presidential Reconstruction. It calls for general amnesty and restoration of property -- except for slaves -- to all Southerners who will swear loyalty to the Union.]]> 2020-10-13 19:44:02 UTC https://padlet.com/brownj9615/7yi8mj897gw4b06t/wish/826459137 brownj9615 https://padlet.com/brownj9615/7yi8mj897gw4b06t/wish/826477074 .The KKK in formed in Pulaski, Tennessee
.The KKK is a secret organization to intimidate African Americans and restore white rule is founded in Pulaski, Tennessee.]]> 2020-10-13 19:49:55 UTC https://padlet.com/brownj9615/7yi8mj897gw4b06t/wish/826477074 brownj9615 https://padlet.com/brownj9615/7yi8mj897gw4b06t/wish/836826651 Confers citizenship on African Americans and guarantees equal rights.

Signed on April 6, 1866]]> 2020-10-16 19:38:12 UTC https://padlet.com/brownj9615/7yi8mj897gw4b06t/wish/836826651 brownj9615 https://padlet.com/brownj9615/7yi8mj897gw4b06t/wish/836836310 Southern states enact laws restricting rights of African Americans.

Black Codes were further enforced by the K.K.K]]> 2020-10-16 19:42:00 UTC https://padlet.com/brownj9615/7yi8mj897gw4b06t/wish/836836310 brownj9615 https://padlet.com/brownj9615/7yi8mj897gw4b06t/wish/836843924 White civilians and police kill 46 African Americans and destroy 90 houses, schools, and four churches in Memphis, Tennessee.

During three days of racial violence in Memphis in May, 1866, white mobs destroyed hundreds of structures in the black community, including a freedman's school.]]> 2020-10-16 19:45:07 UTC https://padlet.com/brownj9615/7yi8mj897gw4b06t/wish/836843924 brownj9615 https://padlet.com/brownj9615/7yi8mj897gw4b06t/wish/836859561 Congress divides the former Confederacy into five military districts and requires elections in which African American men can vote.

The military personnel helps blacks have better access to their rights.]]> 2020-10-16 19:51:33 UTC https://padlet.com/brownj9615/7yi8mj897gw4b06t/wish/836859561 brownj9615 https://padlet.com/brownj9615/7yi8mj897gw4b06t/wish/850717904 Guarantees due process and equal protection under the law to African Americans.

Ratified during the presidency of Andrew Johnson.]]> 2020-10-21 23:56:59 UTC https://padlet.com/brownj9615/7yi8mj897gw4b06t/wish/850717904 brownj9615 https://padlet.com/brownj9615/7yi8mj897gw4b06t/wish/850725495 Black and white lawmakers begin to work side by side in the Southern states' constitutional conventions.   
These were the first political meetings in American history to include substantial numbers of black men.]]> 2020-10-22 00:02:22 UTC https://padlet.com/brownj9615/7yi8mj897gw4b06t/wish/850725495 brownj9615 https://padlet.com/brownj9615/7yi8mj897gw4b06t/wish/850739787 Known as the Shotgun Policy in South Carolina, the Mississippi Plan called for the bribery or intimidation of black voters.

Financial enticements were given to blacks who supported the Democrats, and violence was waged on others in order to convince them to join a Democratic club for protection.]]> 2020-10-22 00:11:05 UTC https://padlet.com/brownj9615/7yi8mj897gw4b06t/wish/850739787 brownj9615 https://padlet.com/brownj9615/7yi8mj897gw4b06t/wish/850771225 The Compromise of 1877 was an unwritten deal, informally arranged among U.S. Congressmen, that settled the intensely disputed 1876 presidential election.

It resulted in the United States federal government pulling the last troops out of the South, and formally ending the Reconstruction Era.]]> 2020-10-22 00:28:30 UTC https://padlet.com/brownj9615/7yi8mj897gw4b06t/wish/850771225