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The Freedmen’s Bureau
The Freedmen's Bureau helped and protected emancipated slaves during their transition from a life of slavery to a life of freedom. The management of abandoned and confiscated property including the redistribution of 'abandoned' lands to former slaves. The support of education. Perform relief work for both black and white poor people in war-stricken areas in the South -
President Lincoln is Assassinated
President Lincoln was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth. Then after he was assassinated Andrew Johnson became president. -
The 13th Amendment is Passed
The Thirteenth Amendment made slavery illegal in the United States. Section one of the amendment said, "Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction." -
Civil Rights Act of 1866
The Civil Rights Act of 1866 was to protect ex-slaves from legislation in the Southern States such as the Black Codes and the Vagrancy Laws. The Civil Rights Act also gave further rights to the freed slaves. -
Ku Klux Klan
The goal of the original Ku Klux Klan was to oppose the Reconstruction policies of the radical Republican Congress and to maintain "white supremacy." -
Military Reconstruction Acts
They passed the military reconstruction acts, which divided the South into five military districts and outlined how the new governments would be designed. Under federal bayonets, blacks, including those who had recently been freed, received the right to vote, hold political offices, and become judges and police chiefs. -
Andrew Johnson’s Impeachment Trial
The Impeachment of Andrew Johnson commenced when the House of Representatives of the Congress of the United States resolved to impeach Andrew Johnson, President of the United States, of high crimes and misdemeanors. President Andrew Johnson was acquitted in the Senate by one vote less than the two-thirds necessary to remove him and was allowed to continue his term of office. FACT: The President replaces several generals who command the 5 military districts established by the Reconstruction Acts. -
Election of Ulysses S. Grant
Many of the people in his administration were crooks who stole from the government. In 1873, financial speculation led to a panic and the stock market crashed. Many people lost their jobs during this time. He also pushed for the passage of the 15th Amendment, giving the right of all men to vote regardless of race, color, or whether they were former slaves. He also signed a bill that allowed persons of African descent to become U.S. citizens. -
14th Amendment
The amendment grants citizenship to all people born or naturalized in the United States which included former slaves who had just been freed after the Civil War. -
15th Amendment
The significance of the Fifteenth Amendment protects the voting rights of all citizens regardless of race or the color of their skin. It also protected the voting rights of former slaves. -
Reconstruction ends
Reconstruction started after the civil war. The people had no money it was all confederate money that was worthless and they had to rebuild plantations and farms. The point of the reconstruction was to get the south back into the union.