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Offeres assistance, such as medical aid and education, to frees slaves and war refugess
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John Wilkes Booth, a famous actor and Confederate, shot President Abraham Lincoln at a play at Ford’s Theatre in Washington, D.C. The attack came only five days after Confederate General Robert E. Lee surrendered, ending the American Civil War.
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violent conflict where whites attacked blacks parading outside the Mechanics Institute in New Orleans, where a Louisiana Constitutional Convention was being held.
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Grants citizenship and equal protection under the law to African Americans
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Abolished governments formed in the former Confederate states: divided those states into five military dis
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Makes all person "born or naturalized in the united states" citizens:stipulates that states that prevented male citizens from voting would lose a percentage of their congressional seats:barred most Confederate leaders from holding political offices
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States that no one can be kept from voting because of "race, color, or previous condition of seritude"
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Protected the voting rights of African Americans and gave the federal government power to enforce the Fifteenth Amendment
