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The period after the Civil War in which the states formerly part of the Confederacy were brought back into the United States.
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southern states except Texas had created new governments
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Congress established the Freemen's Bureau
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Congress proposed new bill, that would give Freedmen's Bureau more power
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a dispute in Memphis, Tennessee, took place between local police and black Union soldiers.
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Congress passed the first of several Reconstruction Acts.
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Former general Grant got nominated for president.
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Congress proposed the Fifteenth Amendment
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Hiram Revels became the first African American in the U.S Senate.
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The Amnesty Act of 1872 allowed former Confederates to serve in public office.
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President Hayes removed federal troops from South
