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Freedmen's Bureau Created
Signed by Abraham Lincoln.n It helped African Americans transition out of slavery and become citizens. -
Assassination of Abrahham Lincoln
He was assassinated before reconstruction began. If he were still President, it might have gone better for the country. -
Civil Rights Act
Helped give African Americans the right to vote and citizenship. -
Reconstruction Act
Gave Martial control of the South to the North by making 5 militairy regions in the South. -
Fourteenth Amendment
Responded the issue of peope not wanting to give African Americans the right ot vote. Also adressed their Civil Rights issue, -
Impeachment of Andrew Johnson
He was tried with impeachment before, but was acquitted. He was brough to the floor again after a 11 more Articles Of Impeachment camr for him. -
Fifteenth Amendment
Prohibits the federal and state governments from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's "race, color, or previous condition of servitude." -
Enforcement act
A United States federal law written to empower the President with the legal authority to enforce the first section of the Fifteenth Amendment throughout the United States.