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President Lincoln signed this document to free all slaves. This angered southerners so much that they sent them death threats
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The Freedmans Bureau helped to emancipate blacks. The bureau also helped settle arguments between blacks and whites.
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President Lincoln was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth. Booth snuck behind Lincoln and shot him in the head while he was watching a play.
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Slavery is abolished forever in America
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The Ku Klux Klan is an organization against blacks. the KKK would kill blacks to establish their power and they would wear masks to scare their targets.
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The reconstruction acts were passed throughout the year of 1867 and they divided the former Confederacy to be divided into 5 districts. in each of these five districts Blacks could vote
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The trial of president Johnson went may-march. Johnson was impeached for violating the Tenure of Office Act as he was trying to reconstruct the Country. Johnson was one vote short of being removed from office.
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Hiram Revels was elected into the U.S. Senate and became the first black senator.
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Freedmans Bureau is abolished and black men have almost all rights as white men
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This act Guarantees equal rights to African Americans in public accomodations and jury service. Ruled unconstitutional in 1883
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