J'Lynn's timeline by J'Lynn Segarra(ST) https://padlet.com/segarraj9878/u52btz0gtbbgqwxd A look through reconstruction en-us 2022-03-07 13:55:19 UTC 2022-03-09 04:57:06 UTC hello@padlet.com March 3, 1865 segarraj9878 https://padlet.com/segarraj9878/u52btz0gtbbgqwxd/wish/2081723741
  • Slavery had been abolished and left Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands is established within the War Department.
  • They wanted to ease the transition to freedom, so they provided the basic human necessities: medical care, shelter, and a job.
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  • President Lincoln is an abolitionist and before he got assassinated he spoke on suffrage amongst black soldiers.  
  • He also believed that states should have more rights
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  • When he became president he wanted to restore the loyal southerners and give them back their property; not slaves. 
  • He agreed to the white south and set Abe Lincolns plan backwards.
  • This included free black people giving up the land and settling somewhere else.
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  • Since African Americans were free there was no way of white people in control. 
  • So they thought, white people wanted to restore white supremacy so they made laws against black people
  • Some included: black children can be taken away from families to work, black people can only work using their hands, and black people must sign labor contracts
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  • When Georgia confirmed the amendment, slavery was then abolished
  • The reconstruction era was ended and Radical Republicans refuse to acknowledge new governments in the south: seat denied. 
  • The black population doubled in the next five years
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  • The Ku Klux Klan was formed by Confederate veterans to frighten former slaves and white Southern Unionists.
  • Bills were presented to reduce the menace as their campaign of kidnappings, murders, and lynchings grew throughout Reconstruction.
  • Jim Crow laws and Black Codes made racist people more susceptible.
    • ]]>     2022-03-08 14:09:07 UTC https://padlet.com/segarraj9878/u52btz0gtbbgqwxd/wish/2084054652     April, 1966 segarraj9878 https://padlet.com/segarraj9878/u52btz0gtbbgqwxd/wish/2084245705
  • The Bill gave all men in America the equal rights of a white free man no matter if they were a before slave or not. 
  • They bill gets passed with the greater majority, but the president vetoes it 
  • Congress overrides the veto and the law is passed (first time congress took power of the presidents "authority").
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  • There was a racial motivation because all the rights black people are getting, so they were attacked for 3 days. 
  • They attacked schools, homes, and churched killing 48 black people.
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  • The government sent troops into the rebel states and split them into 5 military districts. 
  • They had to make a new state constitution that had to be approved by congress
  • Everyone had to agree and ratify the 14th amendment- everyone was born free.
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  • This implemented to find a place for slaves to seek refuge in the Caribbean: Dominican Republic. 
  • Also the United states agreed to make the DR a territory that eventually leading into statehood, but that never happened.

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  • African Americans now have the guarantee right of protection and equality. Including slaves who just fought in the Civil War.
  • This amendment defined citizenship for people born and brought to the United States.
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  •  Ulysses S. Grant led the Union Armies to victory over the Confederacy in the American Civil War.
  • He supported pardons for former Confederate leaders while also attempting to protect the civil rights of freed slaves.
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  • Free people were now allowed to be with the white people making up some rights 
  • Also this remolded the state constitution and took racist amendments out.
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  • This gave all black men no matter what standpoint the right to vote
  • The 15th Amendment was pushed through by the Republican desire to consolidate power in both the North and the South. This aim might be achieved with the help of black voters.
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  • The state militia, which is nearly completely black, clashes with the White League, a paramilitary group devoted to securing white dominance in Louisiana.
  • This leaded into three white people dying and 100 black deaths.
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  • White people forced black voters to swing the confederate way, so they can gain political control. 
  • Some acts where intimidation, force, or violence amongst the white southerners and black people.
    • ]]>     2022-03-09 04:51:52 UTC https://padlet.com/segarraj9878/u52btz0gtbbgqwxd/wish/2085373376     After the 1876 election segarraj9878 https://padlet.com/segarraj9878/u52btz0gtbbgqwxd/wish/2085378822
  • The 1877 Compromise was an unwritten agreement reached informally among United States Congressmen to resolve the bitterly contested presidential election of 1876.
  • Hayes was appointed to the White House on the condition that federal soldiers be removed from South Carolina, Florida, and Louisiana.
  • As a result, the federal government of the United States withdrew the remaining troops from the Southern United States, bringing the Reconstruction Era to a close.
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