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Thirteenth Amendment
Abolished slavery -
Klu Klux Klan
Secret Society formed to kill black people. It was vicious and cruel. -
Freedmens Bureau founded
Freedmens Bureau is founded to aid former slaves -
Assasination of Lincoln
Booth kills Abe. Vice President Andrew Johnson becomes president. -
First Reconstruction Act passed
passes over Johnsons veto and puts south under millitary rule temporarily. states may be readmitted if their new state constitutions provide for black suffrage. -
Fourteenth Amendment ratified
ntitles all persons born or naturalized in the United States to citizenship and equal protection under the laws of the United States. -
Johnson almost gets impeached
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Grant becomes president
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15th Amendment
prohibits any state from denying a citizen the right to vote because of race, color, or previous condition of servitude -
Force Acts passed
enforce 15th Amendment. gives Federal protection for black suffrage, Federal troops against the KKK. -
Civil Rights Act of 1875
no citizen can be denied the equal use of public facilities based on race -
Compromise of 1877
end to military intervention in the South
