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Wade Davis Bill
Required white males to take a loyalty oath to be readmitted to the union. In addition states were required to give blacks the right to vote. -
Freeman's Bureau
To help millions of former black slaves and poor whites in the south in the after math of the civil war. -
Lee Surrenders to Grant
surrenders his army of Northern Virginia to Union General Ulysses S.Grant. -
Lincoln Assassinated
16th President of the United States, was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth. -
13th Amendment
Abolished slavery in the United States. -
KKK
Six Confederate Veterans from Pulaski, Tennessee created the klu klux klan during Reconstruction of the civil war. -
Civil Rights Act
The act declared that all persons born in the United States were now citizens, without regard to race, color, or previous condition. -
Credit Mobilier Scandal
American construction company in the building of the eastern portion of the First Transcontinental Railroad. -
Military Reconstruction Act
The acts divided the south into five military districts. -
Tenure of office Act
Provided all federal officials whose appointment required senate conformation could not be removed without the consent of the senate. -
Johnson Impeached
Impeached the President for high crimes and misdemeanors... on weak later, the house adopted eleven articles of impeachment against the President. -
14th Amendment
Granted citizenship to all person born or naturalized in the United States. -
Ulysses S. Grant elected (1869-1877)
Led the union armies to victory over the confederacy in the American civil war. -
15th Amendment
Granted African American men the right to vote. -
Compromise
was an informal, unwritten deal, that settled the intensely disputed 1876 U.S. presidential election. It resulted in the United States federal government pulling the last troops out of the south, and formally ended the Reconstruction Era.
