https://padlet.com/211574/fmqk18tgymaa Made with a dash of wit en-us 2016-09-01 17:24:18 UTC 2025-12-23 19:25:46 UTC hello@padlet.com 211574 https://padlet.com/211574/fmqk18tgymaa/wish/121166459 Whenever they were slaves they weren't allowed to go to school, as they began to be emancipated they had the right to go to school.]]> 2016-09-01 17:36:47 UTC https://padlet.com/211574/fmqk18tgymaa/wish/121166459 211574 https://padlet.com/211574/fmqk18tgymaa/wish/121399924 With the Radical Republicans fully in control of Congress after the mid-term elections of 1866, they quickly passed the  military reconstruction act of 1867. These acts divided the south into five military districts. Opponents of union and of civil rights for freed slaves faced Reconstruction with  out covert acts of violence that targeted perceived enemies of the South.]]> 2016-09-02 18:15:22 UTC https://padlet.com/211574/fmqk18tgymaa/wish/121399924 211574 https://padlet.com/211574/fmqk18tgymaa/wish/121652045 Hiram revels was the first African american to serve in congress.The 15th Amendment, granting African-American men the right to vote, was formally adopted into the U.S. Constitution on March 30, 1870.  the amendment reads: “the right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude.”
website: http://www.history.com/topics/black-history/fifteenth-amendment]]> 2016-09-06 00:58:08 UTC https://padlet.com/211574/fmqk18tgymaa/wish/121652045 211574 https://padlet.com/211574/fmqk18tgymaa/wish/121655120 At 7:22 a.m., Abraham Lincoln, the 16th president of the United States, dies from a bullet wound inflicted the night before by John Wilkes Booth, an actor and Confederate sympathizer. ]]> 2016-09-06 01:30:29 UTC https://padlet.com/211574/fmqk18tgymaa/wish/121655120 211574 https://padlet.com/211574/fmqk18tgymaa/wish/121656252 key events of reconstruction]]> 2016-09-06 01:40:48 UTC https://padlet.com/211574/fmqk18tgymaa/wish/121656252