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By: Gina & Katie
Period 7 -
Congress establishes Freedmen's Bureau -
Booth was a supporter of slavery - believed that Lincoln was determined to overthrow the Constitution -
In Pulaski, Tennessee, a group of Confederate veterans convenes to form a secret society that they called the “Ku Klux Klan" -
The plan was to place the South under military occupation and to grant Black men the vote. He was genuinely committed to Black social equality, but also admitted that enfranchising them would ensure the continued dominance of the Republican Party. -
Outlined the terms for readmission to representation of rebel states -
Johnson violated the Tenure of Office Act - controversial federal law that was to restrict the ability of U.S. president to remove certain officials that Congress had already approved -
Granted citizenship to all persons "born or naturalized in the United States" -
Granted the right for African American men to vote -
Ruled that a citizen's "privileges and immunities," as protected by the Constitution's Fourteenth Amendment against the states, were limited to those spelled out in the Constitution and did not include many rights given by the individual states. -
Informal, written deal that settled the disputed the 1876 U.S. presidential election - resulted in the U.S. government pulling the last troops out of the South -
Wells petitioned her steering committee to include a pavilion showcasing the achievements of African Americans.