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Required a majority of white adult males to take allegiance oath.
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Made African Americans enter into a life simmilar to slavery by making them accept apprenticeships and in some states could be either whipped or beaten.
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Abolished slavery
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John Wilkes Booth sneeks into Lincoln's box at Ford's Theater and shoots him.
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Angry white southerners drove out the "carpetbaggers" and intimidate African American voters.
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Granted all people born in the U.S. citizenship.
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President Grant's term in office was a disaster because he had no political experience.
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Hiram was the first African American senator. He served only one year.
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Congress outlawed all activities of the Ku Klux Klan. Officials arrested more than 3,000 Klan members.
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An economic crisis was ignited when Jay Cooke and Comapany declared bankruptcy.
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Government Officials and distillers in St. Louis are found to have cheated the government out of millions of dollers by filing false tax reports.
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Blanche Kelso Bruce of Mississippi becomes the first full term African-American senator.
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President Rutheford Hayes is elected. He drove out the carpet baggers from the South and the economy boomed.
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President Hayes ends reconstruction. The Southern economy boomed when Hayes pulled the troops out.
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Henry O. Flipper graduates from West Point. He is the first African American to graduate from a millitary acadamy.
