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People were mad because they blamed the war on him.
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Confederate General Robert E. Lee surrenders. They meet at the McClean house. Both generals know the house well. Grand does not arrest Lee after the surrender because they have a sort of understanding of one another.
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5 days after the end of the Civil War, John W. Booth shot President Lincoln in the head at a theater in Washington D.C.
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John Booth is found and shot in a barn down the road from the theater. He is there resting because he broke is leg.
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(Made up specific date) After the war and Lincoln's assassination, something needed to be done to create peace. Lincoln's plan consisted of the 10% rule. Johnson's Plan would punish confederate soldiers and make then take an oath. The Radical's plan wanted to punish the entire south and create military zones to keep the peace.
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The co-conspirators of Booth were executed by hanging in July of 1865. This included the doctor who reset Booth's leg after he assassinated the President.
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The KKK was started by former Confederate General Nathan Bedford Forrest. It depicts violence and targets African Americans and those who sympathize or help them.
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Grant is elected president and he was set on passing the Fifteenth Amendment which granted African Americans full citizenship.
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This Act was the last of 3 enforcement acts from 1870-1871. This allows the president the right to enforce martial law on terrorist groups and their acts of violence.
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Hayes from the North goes against Tilden from the South. Tilden won by points but Congress decided Hayes won because of turmoil from the War.