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Johnson the Democrat
Republicans had put on the ticket to appeal to the border states -
President Lincolns urging
Congress proposed the Thriteenth Amendment -
Frreedmen's Bureau
Congress established Freedmen's Bureau -
Civil war
the civil war ended -
President Lincoln
Lincoln was shot -
Southern states
created new governments -
Thirteenth Amendment
was ratified and took effect -
new bill
Congress proposed a new bill -
Memphis, Tennessee
took place between local police and black unon soldiers -
Civil Rights Act
provided aferican americans with the same legal rights as whites -
Fourteenth Amendment
became an amendment -
Congress
continued to debate the rules for restoring the Union -
Civil rights for African Americans
became a key issue i -
Recontruction Act
congress passed it -
Fifteenth Amendment
congress proposed it