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This bill required the majority of the adult white males in a former Confederate state to take an oath of allegiance to the Union.
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Feed and clothed the war refugees in the South using surplus army supplies.
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Granted citizenship to all persons born in the United States except Native Americans.
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It is in Washington D.C. and was founded by a group of Congregationalists who wanted to establish a seminary for African American ministers.
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Granted Citizenship to all persons born or naturalized in the United States and declared that no state could deprive any person of life, liberty, or property "withoutdue process of law."
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Declared that the right to vote "shall not be denied... on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude."
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Hiram Revels and Blanche K. Bruce were among the first African Americans to be elected to the Senate. While many other African Americans were in the House of Representatives.
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the Reconstruction plan called for all states to rejoin. By late 1870 all were part of the Union. Georgia is the last state to that needed to rejoin.
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The Ku Klux Klan act was passed saying that the activities of the Klan were outlawed.
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Grant won the election against Horace Greeley who was the candidate for the Liberal Republicans and Democrats
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Dozen of smaller banks closed, and stock market plummeted. Thousands of businesses shut down, and the unemployment levels soared beyond belief.
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A group of government officials and distillers in St. Louis, Missouri, cheated the government out of millions of dollars by filing false tax reports.
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It was negotiated on February 26, 1877. This reportly included a promise by the Republicans to pull federal troops out of the South if Hayes were elected, and in a few months it did happen.
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It was the first college for African American women.
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Henry W. Grady wrote the speech. They believed the region had to develop a strong industrial economy.
