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The creation of of the joint committee on reconstruction.
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Lincoln is assasinated and Andrew Jackson becomes president.
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Confederacy surrenders (end of civil war an the beginning of reconstruction).
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Lincoln recognized that the Emancipation Proclamation would have to be followed by a constitutional amendment in order to guarantee the abolishment of slavery. The 13th amendment was passed at the end of the Civil War before the Southern states had been restored to the Union and should have easily passed the Congress.
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Following the Civil War, Congress submitted to the states this amendment as part of its Reconstruction program to guarantee equal civil and legal rights to black citizens.
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The beginning of the Formation of the Radical Republicans.
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Reconstruction bill, (south directed into 5 milltary districts.)
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The impeachment of President Andrew Johnson was the result of political conflict and the rupture of ideologies in the aftermath of the American Civil War.
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Ulysses s. grant becomes president. War hero but horrible president.
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To former abolitionists and to the Radical Republicans in Congress who fashioned Reconstruction after the Civil War, the 15th amendment, enacted in 1870, appeared to signify the fulfillment of all promises to African Americans.
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The Enforcement Acts (KKK Acts) were enforced to enforce the 14th and 15th ammendments.
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The civil rights act was passed.
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The Compromise of 1877 was an informal, unwritten deal that settled the intensely disputed 1876 U.S. presidential election. It pulled federal troops out of state politics in the South, and ended the Reconstruction Era.
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Country enters into an economic depression.