Chapter 17

  • Johnson the Democrat

    Republicans had put on the ticket to appeal to the border states
  • President Lincolns urging

    Congress proposed the Thriteenth Amendment
  • Frreedmen's Bureau

    Congress established Freedmen's Bureau
  • Civil war

    the civil war ended
  • President Lincoln

    Lincoln was shot
  • Southern states

    created new governments
  • Thirteenth Amendment

    was ratified and took effect
  • new bill

    Congress proposed a new bill
  • Memphis, Tennessee

    took place between local police and black unon soldiers
  • Civil Rights Act

    provided aferican americans with the same legal rights as whites
  • Fourteenth Amendment

    became an amendment
  • Congress

    continued to debate the rules for restoring the Union
  • Civil rights for African Americans

    became a key issue i
  • Recontruction Act

    congress passed it
  • Fifteenth Amendment

    congress proposed it