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His assassination occured five days after Robert E. Lee surrenered to S. Grant. He was the first president to be assassinated. He was assassinated in the Presidential Box at Ford's Theater in D.C. .
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It was started to help freedmen and poor whites obtain food, shelter, clothing and schooling. It also helped blacks. It helped Blacks and whites with every day issues.
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Recontruction means the act of building something agian. The time period after the Civil War in which the south rejoined the union, and rebuilt it's society.
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At the end of the Civil War the south began to rebuild the South. Laws were passed. Such as giving equal tights to blacks.
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This admendment outlawed slavery. It also canceled all war debts. They were able to return there Representatives.
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It grented citeznship and Equal Rights . The Congress required southern states to ratify it. It was just one of the very important admendments.
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Henery McNeal Turner was are state senate in 1868. He was elected senate November 3rd 1868. He was sent to the Georgia legislature.
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This admendment was very important to the male population. It granted male citezins the right to vote for there president. I was passed approximately 16 states.
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Georgia was not only readmitted once but twice. Georgia was the very last state to be readmitted. Its legislature refused to seat its new black members.
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An agreement between the two parties, sometimes called the "Compromise of 1877," convinced the Democrats that they should accept the Commission's 8-7 vote. Which made Hayes the new president. This election ended the reconstruction.
