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It was intended to last one year after the civil war. It was an important agency of the early reconstruction assisting freedmen (free ex - slaves) in the south. It was to help black and whites with thier problems.
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Appomattox was in Apr. 14,1865. General lee grant surrendered at the appomattox courthouse in Virginia. This here ended the war
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Abraham and his wife went to see a play "Our American Cousins.
It was nearly over when John Wilkes Booth an acter who was loyal to the confederacy. He went into lincoln's theater box at 10:15pm and shoot Abraham Lincoln. -
The proclamation did not free any slaves in the border states nor did it abolish slavery. Because of this lincoln and some other supporters believed that an amendment to the constitution was needed. Johnson had the 13th amendment ratified which ended slavery.
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It was passed forbidding any state from making laws. This would limit the rights and priviledges of any citizens. This clause was used to make most of the bill of rights applicable to the state.
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Turner ran for political office from macon. He was elected to the Georgia legislature in 1868. Then elected senate.
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It was ratified on fed 3rd. It states that the right of the citizen to vote will not be denied. Prohibits each government in the united states from denying a citizen the right to vote.
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It was readmitted after the ratifying of the 15th amendment. It was on july 15. Georgia admitted with the union.
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Hayes left Congress to run for Governor of Ohio and was elected to two consecutive terms, serving from 1868 to 1872.
After his second term had ended, he resumed the practice of law for a time, but returned to politics in 1876 to serve a third term as governor.
Hayes was a reformer who began the efforts that led to civil service reform and attempted, unsuccessfully, to reconcile the divisions that had led to the American Civil War fifteen years earlier.
