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President Lincoln offered pardon to Southerners who took an oath of loyalty to the United States
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requried majority of adult white males in former Confederate state to take oath of allegiance to the Union
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Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, Abandoned Lands
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Johnson Becomes President after Lincoln is assassinated
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KKK formed in Tennessee
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14th Amendment adopted to the Constitution
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Howard University opens first law school for African Americans
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Public School System was created in the south in 1870
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Enforcement Acts passed to combat violence in South
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the last confederate state, Georgia, joins the union
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Stock Market plummeted and Dozens of banks closed
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Politicians and distillers cheated government of millions of dollars
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Outcome of corrupt election of 1876
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Hayes elected after Compromise of 1877
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Ended reconstruction
