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The freedman's Bureau was a government agency initially established under Lincoln's war powers. Also, it helped freedmen to get educated, management of abandoned and confiscated property, and administration of justice -
John Wikes Booth assasinated Abriham lincoln, and after his assasination Andrew Jackson, the vice president, became president. -
The 13th Amendment is that slavery is illegal in the United States -
The Civil Rights Act of 1866 protected slaves or exslaves(freedman) from legislation in the Southern States such as the Black Codes and the Vagrancy Laws. -
The goal of the Ku Klux Klan was to oppose the Reconstruction policies of the radical Republican Congress and to maintain white supremacy. -
Congress passed the Military Reconstruction Acts because they wanted to punish the South and to prevent the ruling class from continuing in power -
The House of Repressenetives empeached President Johnseon for his high crimes and misdemeanors. The thing that kept Johnson from not being removed from office was the one Senate vote that was 2/3 neccesary to remove him. A fact during the impreachment of Andrew Jackson was that the president replaced several generals who command the 5 military districts established by the Reconstruction Acts. -
Ulysses S. Grant’s presidency was marked with scandals because most of the people in his administrationwere crooks who stole from the government and it caused the stock market crash and making people lose their jobs. -
The 14th Amendment is that it grants citizenship and wqual rights and legal rights to Aftrican Americans and enslaved. -
The 15th amendment is that it protects voting rights to all citizens regardless of race or the color of your skin. -
The reconstruction was to help the South become part of the Union again.