Reconstruction

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  • Period: to

    Civil War

  • Assassination of Lincoln

  • Freedmen's bureau

  • Period: to

    Andrew Johnson

    Vetoes of Reconstruction laws such as Freedmen's Bureau extension and the Civil Rights Act of 1866 (Congress overrode his vetoes)

  • Reconstruction Act

    Divided there South into military districts

  • 14th Amendment

    African Americans aren't slaves but citizens
    "born or naturalized in the US"

  • Impeachment of Andrew Johnson

    He survived removel by one vote
    Cause: He fired Edwin Stanton for Secretary of war which violated the Tenure of Office Act

  • 15th Amendment

    Right to vote for African Americans

  • Compromise of 1877

    In return for Rutherford B. Hayes to become president, federal troops were removed from the South, ending Reconstruction and leading to the rise of Jim Crow Laws.