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Lincoln was the 16th President of the United States. He abolished slavery in America.
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Lincoln proclaimed his Emancipation Proclomation which freed all of the slaves in the Confederacy.
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The Thirteenth Amendent was adopted into the Constitution. It abolished slavery throughout the United States.
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Lincoln's Reconstruction Plan was his intentions on how to intergrate freed slaves into American society.
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The Confederate Army leader General Robert E. Lee surrenders to the Union Army Leader Ulysses S. Grant and ends the war.
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President Lincoln was assinated at the Fords Theater by John Wilkes Booth. Andrew Johnson becomes the 17th President of the United States.
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Unofficial laws put in place in the United States with the effect of limiting the basic human rights and civil liberties of blacks. Also known as Jim Crow Laws.
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Nathan Bedford Forest was the creator of the KKK . It originated in Tennessee to fight against African American rights in the South.
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Offered all natural born citizens of the United States Guaranteed Privileges and Immunities of Citizenship, Due Process and Equal Protection under the law.
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Gave all men the right to vote regardless of race.
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President Hayes withdraws Union troops from the south and officially ends Reconstruction
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Union troops attempted to invade Texas using the Subine Pass. They raped, murdered, and burglerized innocent civilians.
