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Freedoms Breau
This provided food, clothing, schools, and finding jobs. -
Lee Surrenders
Lee, refusing to see his troops suffer any further, surrenders to Grant. Southern troops given generous terms of surrender. -
President Lincoln's Assassination
John Wilkes Booth, an actor and Confederate sympathizer, shot and killed President Lincoln. Booth entered President Lincoln's private box at Ford's Theater in Washington, D.C. while he attended a play. He shot President Lincoln in the head, which killed him several hours later. -
13th Amendment
"Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction." -
Ku Klux Klan
A secret society, KKK, that used fear and violence to intimidate freed men and women. Klan members killed thousands of African Americans. They beat and wounded many more and burned African American homes, schools, and churches. Many Southerners, especially planters and Democrats, backed the Klan. -
Civil Rights Act of of 1866
This alowed federal goverment to step in if states violated rights. -
Tenure of Office Act
It prohibited the president from removing government officials, including members of his own cabinet, without the Senate's apprival. -
Grandfather Clause
In 1867,it allowed whites to vote even if they failed the literacy tests or couldn't affored to pay the poll taxes. This is if they were a son or a grandson of a man who was eligiable to vote before Reconstruction. This excluded the blacks because blacks were not able to vote before Reconstruction. -
Second Reconstruction Act
Required the military commanders to register voters and prepare for state constitutional conventions. -
14trh Amendment
All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United "States and of the state wherein they reside. No state shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any state deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws." -
Change in Politices in the South after Reconstruction
These Democrats called themselves "Redeemers" because they had "redeemed" the South from Repulbican rule. The Redeemers adopted conservative poilitics, such as lower taxes and reduced government spending. They drastically cut many social services started during Reconstruction. Their one-party rule and conservative policies dominated Southern politics well into the 1900's. -
15th Amendment
Forbidding denial of voting rights due to "race, color, or previous conditions of servitude." -
Southern States Readmitted
The ten Southern states had established new governments. Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, North Carolia, Mississippi, Virginia, and TExas met the requirments for readmission. Georgia was the last former Confederate state to be readmitted to the Union. -
Amnesty Act
Pardoned most former Confederates. Nearly all white Southerners could vote and hold office again. The amnesty changed the political balance in the South by restoring full rights to people who supported the Democratic Party. -
Bruce Takes Seat
Blanch K. Bruce was the first Afrian American to serve a full six-year term as Senator. Bruce was a Republican of Mississippi takes his seat in the United States Senate. Not until 1969 would another black American begin a Senate term.
