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Lincoln won the election on November 9 1860
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The U.S. Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands, popularly known as the Freedmen’s Bureau, was established in 1865 by Congress to help former black slaves and poor whites in the South in the aftermath of the U.S. Civil War (1861-65).
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Reconstruction refers to the period following the Civil War of rebuilding the United States. It was a time of great pain and endless questions.
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America’s bloodiest clash, the sectional conflct of the Civil War
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Abraham Lincoln was an American politician and lawyer who served as the 16th President of the United States from March 1861 until his assassination in April 1865.
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The Emancipation Proclamation was a presidential proclamation and executive order issued by President Abraham Lincoln on January 1, 1863.
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When the Civil War began, President Abraham Lincoln’s professed goal was the restoration of the Union
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the south seceded because Abraham Lincoln was elected president and he wanted to forbid slaver
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Radical Reconstruction. After northern voters rejected Johnson's policies in the congressional elections in late 1866, Republicans in Congress took firm hold of Reconstruction in the South.
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The 14th Amendment to the Constitution was ratified on July 9, 1868, and granted citizenship to “all persons born or naturalized in the United States,” which included former slaves recently freed.
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The 15th Amendment to the Constitution granted African American men the right to vote by declaring that the "right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude."
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is a system of agriculture in which a landowner allows a tenant to use the land in return for a share of the crops produced on their portion of land
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Since 1870, when Senator Hiram Revels of Mississippi and Representative Joseph Rainey of South Carolina became the first African Americans to serve in Congress, a total of 146 African Americans have served as U.S. Representatives, Delegates, or Senators.
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The 1875 Civil Rights Act The last biracial U.S. Congress of the 19th century passed the Civil Rights Act of 1875.
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The Emancipation Proclamation was a presidential proclamation and executive order issued by President Abraham Lincoln on January 1, 1863.