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Freedmen's Bureau was a federal agency that was established March 3, 1865 right before the civil war had ended, and it was established to help and protect the emancipated slaves during their transition from the life of slavery to a life of freedom. Three ways the organization helped freedmen were they provided them food, housing, and medical aid. -
President Lincoln was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth and was the first to be assassinated. Andrew Johnson became president after he was assassinated. -
The 13th amendment was what made slavery illegal in the United States, It was adopted as part of the Constitution on December 6, 1865.
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The Civil Rights Act detailed the rights to people who were born in the U.S. to be citizens. -
Ku Klux Klan plan was to oppose the Reconstruction policies of the radical Republican Congress and to maintain the "white supremacy". -
The 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 Representatives impeach President Johnson because of high crimes and misdemeanors. Answering a 12 articles of Impeachment and was acquitted in the Senate by one vote less than the two-thirds necessary to remove him is what allowed him to not be removed from office. One fact about the impeachment of Andrew Johnson is he was a Southern Democrat. -
Many people in his administration were crooks who stole from the government which marked Ulysses presidency to be marked with scandals. Grant advanced rights for the African American by pushing for the passage of the 15th amendment and signing a bill that allowed people of African descent to become U.S. citizens. -
The 14th Amendment granted citizenship to those who were born or naturalized in the United States, and it included those who were slaves that had been freed after the civil war. It had been rejected by most Southern states but was ratified by three to fourths states. -
The 15th amendment was to protect the voting rights of all citizens regardless of there race. -
Ruther Ford B. ended the Reconstruction under his presidency. The state governments took over after he removed the federal troops from the south and after that many changes to equal rights were reversed.
