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wade davis bill
was a bill proposed for the Reconstruction of the South written by two Radical Republicans, Senator Benjamin Wade of Ohio and Representative Henry Winter Davis of Maryland. -
freemans bureau created
during the Reconstruction period after the American Civil War, popular name for the U.S. Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, established by Congress to provide practical aid to 4,000,000 newly freed African Americans in their transition from slavery to freedom. -
lee surrenders to great
lee and his 28000 troops surrender to grant to end the civil war -
lincoln assassinated
he was shot in the ford theater in the back of the head by john wilkes -
13th amendment
13th amendment is were they freed slavery -
kkk formed
Six Confederate veterans from Pulaski, Tennessee created the original Ku Klux Klan on December 24, 1865, during the Reconstruction of the South after the Civil War. The name was formed by combining the Greek kyklos -
military reconstruction act
these acts divided the south into five military districts. -
civil rights act of 1866
was the first United States federal law to define citizenship and affirm that all citizens are equally protected by the law. -
tenure of office act
The Tenure of Office Act was a United States federal law (in force from 1867 to 1887) that was intended to restrict the power of the President of the United States to remove certain office-holders without the approval of the Senate. -
johnson impeached
three days after Johnson's dismissal of Stanton, the House of Representatives voted 126 to 47 (with 17 members not voting) in favor of a resolution to impeach the President for high crimes and misdemeanors. ... One week later, the House adopted eleven articles of impeachment against the President. -
14th amendment
the 14th amendment gave citizenship to the blacks -
15th amendment
the 15th amendment allowed the blacks to vote -
credit mobilier scandal
involved the Union Pacific Rail Road and the Crédit Mobilier of America construction company in the building of the eastern portion of the First Transcontinental Railroad. The scandal was in two parts. -
compromise of 1877
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.
