Chapter 17

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    Chapter 17

  • President Lincoln proposed the 13th Amendment

  • President Lincoln was shot

  • 13th Amendment was ratified

  • Congress established the Freedom's Bureau

  • Civil War ended

  • Republicans proposed the 14th amendment

  • A dispute broke out in Memphis, Tennessee

  • The Civil Rights Act was proposed by the Republicans

  • Congress passed the first of several Reconstruction Acts

  • Republican nominee was Ulysses S. Grant in the Election of 1868

  • Democratic nominee for the Election of 1868 was Horatio Seymour

  • More than 150,000 African American students were attending more than 3,000 schools

  • Congress proposed the 15th Amendment

  • A severe economic downturn started

  • US supreme court ruled that the Civil Rights Act of 1875 was unconstitutional