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The primary purpose of the Freedmen's Bureau was to help the Freedmen and poor whites.
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Reconstruction was the period after the Civil War when the United States was rebuilding government, cities, and towns.
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General Lee's army surrendered to General Grant's army.
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Lincoln and his wife attended a play at Ford's Theatre and John Wilkes Booth entered the private box and shot Lincoln in the head.
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President Andrew Johnson ratified the thirteenth amendment that outlawed slavery,
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Henry McNeal Turner was raised in the south as a freed African American, and he was a licensed preacher.
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The fourteenth amendment declared that all people born in the US were all citizens except the Native Americans.
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The fifteenth amendment stated that the right to vote could not be denied to any US citizen on account of race, color, or previous servitude.
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The Georgia legislature ratified the fifteenth amendment, and Congress finally readmitted Georgia to the Union.
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Rutherford B. Hayes and Samuel J. Tilden had the same number of electoral votes. Hayes made a deal with the southern Democrats.