https://padlet.com/mensahy8573/yyqhtrgj5dmbfeum en-us 2021-02-11 13:19:57 UTC 2021-02-15 02:30:31 UTC hello@padlet.com mensahy8573 https://padlet.com/mensahy8573/yyqhtrgj5dmbfeum/wish/1192097369 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.]]> 2021-02-11 13:24:13 UTC https://padlet.com/mensahy8573/yyqhtrgj5dmbfeum/wish/1192097369 mensahy8573 https://padlet.com/mensahy8573/yyqhtrgj5dmbfeum/wish/1192112606 An actor John Wilkes Booth entered the presidential box at Ford's Theatre in Washington D.C., and fatally shot President Lincoln. ]]> 2021-02-11 13:27:42 UTC https://padlet.com/mensahy8573/yyqhtrgj5dmbfeum/wish/1192112606 mensahy8573 https://padlet.com/mensahy8573/yyqhtrgj5dmbfeum/wish/1192122738 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.]]> 2021-02-11 13:30:04 UTC https://padlet.com/mensahy8573/yyqhtrgj5dmbfeum/wish/1192122738 mensahy8573 https://padlet.com/mensahy8573/yyqhtrgj5dmbfeum/wish/1192132041 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.]]> 2021-02-11 13:32:10 UTC https://padlet.com/mensahy8573/yyqhtrgj5dmbfeum/wish/1192132041 mensahy8573 https://padlet.com/mensahy8573/yyqhtrgj5dmbfeum/wish/1192228963 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.".]]> 2021-02-11 13:52:06 UTC https://padlet.com/mensahy8573/yyqhtrgj5dmbfeum/wish/1192228963 mensahy8573 https://padlet.com/mensahy8573/yyqhtrgj5dmbfeum/wish/1192238269 2021-02-11 13:53:55 UTC https://padlet.com/mensahy8573/yyqhtrgj5dmbfeum/wish/1192238269 mensahy8573 https://padlet.com/mensahy8573/yyqhtrgj5dmbfeum/wish/1192242793 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."]]> 2021-02-11 13:54:48 UTC https://padlet.com/mensahy8573/yyqhtrgj5dmbfeum/wish/1192242793 mensahy8573 https://padlet.com/mensahy8573/yyqhtrgj5dmbfeum/wish/1192245090 The Memphis massacre of 1866 was a series of violent events that occurred from the 1-3, 1866. ]]> 2021-02-11 13:55:13 UTC https://padlet.com/mensahy8573/yyqhtrgj5dmbfeum/wish/1192245090 mensahy8573 https://padlet.com/mensahy8573/yyqhtrgj5dmbfeum/wish/1192246653 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]]> 2021-02-11 13:55:31 UTC https://padlet.com/mensahy8573/yyqhtrgj5dmbfeum/wish/1192246653 mensahy8573 https://padlet.com/mensahy8573/yyqhtrgj5dmbfeum/wish/1192248047 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]]> 2021-02-11 13:55:46 UTC https://padlet.com/mensahy8573/yyqhtrgj5dmbfeum/wish/1192248047 mensahy8573 https://padlet.com/mensahy8573/yyqhtrgj5dmbfeum/wish/1192249184 Met up in Charleston with a majority of Black delegates.

The Black codes that flourish under the constitution of 1865 were overturned.]]> 2021-02-11 13:55:59 UTC https://padlet.com/mensahy8573/yyqhtrgj5dmbfeum/wish/1192249184 mensahy8573 https://padlet.com/mensahy8573/yyqhtrgj5dmbfeum/wish/1192258516 It granted African American men the right to vote]]> 2021-02-11 13:57:44 UTC https://padlet.com/mensahy8573/yyqhtrgj5dmbfeum/wish/1192258516 mensahy8573 https://padlet.com/mensahy8573/yyqhtrgj5dmbfeum/wish/1192259869 President grant send federal troops to South Carolina but not Mississippi to stop the violence]]> 2021-02-11 13:58:00 UTC https://padlet.com/mensahy8573/yyqhtrgj5dmbfeum/wish/1192259869 mensahy8573 https://padlet.com/mensahy8573/yyqhtrgj5dmbfeum/wish/1192265005 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.]]> 2021-02-11 13:59:02 UTC https://padlet.com/mensahy8573/yyqhtrgj5dmbfeum/wish/1192265005