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The FreedMen's Bureau is An Act to establish a Bureau for the Relief of Freedmen and Refugees” to provide food, shelter, clothing, medical services, and land to displaced Southerners, including newly freed African Americans. -
President Abraham Lincoln was shot on April 14, 1865, by John Wilkes Booth and it was Andrew Johnson -
The Thirteenth Amendment made slavery illegal in the United States but the south created a loophole called the black codes which is a way the keep slavery. -
The Civil Rights Act of 1866 declared all persons born in the United States to be citizens -
the kkk was a social club for Confederate soldiers but it took a turn for the worse. the klan was now an act of racism and violence towards African Americans. -
They wanted to punish the South, and to prevent the ruling class from continuing in power. They passed the Military Reconstruction Acts of 1867, which divided the South into five military districts and outlined how the new governments would be designed. -
The house of reps impeached Andrew Jackson because he was accused of high crimes and misdemeanors, but he stayed as president because there wasn't enough votes to vote him out. -
Grant signed the landmark Civil Rights Act, ending separation in public accommodations and more. -
the 14th Amendment is itgranted citizenship and equal civil and legal rights to African Americans and enslaved people who had been emancipated after the American Civil War. -
The 15th Amendment guaranteed African-American men the right to vote, but the south didn't want African Americans to vote so they made it where the African Americans have to take a "quiz", which was not fair because most African Americans didn't know how to read or write -
The Reconstruction officially ended under the presidency of Rutherford B. Hayes in 1877. He removed the federal troops from the South and the state governments took over. Unfortunately, many of the changes to equal rights were immediately reversed.