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reconstruction
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Col. Benjamin Grierson
Col. Benjamin Grierson leaves La Grange, Tennessee at the head of a 1,700 man cavalry column heading towards Mississippi to raid the state. -
General Robert Hoke
General Robert Hoke captures Plymouth and the 2800 man Union garrison stationed there. -
Congress creates freedmans bureau
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Johnson declares reconstuction complete
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13 amendment approved
abolished slavery in the United States -
Radical Republicans
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Reconstruction acts
The reconstruction acts of 1867 laid out the process for readmitting southern states into the union agian -
President Johnson Impeached
President Johnson appointed General Lorenzo thomas as secretary of war, who congress was not good with it -
14 amendment
granted citizenship to all persons born or naturalized in the United States which included former slaves recently freed. -
Ulysses S. Grant elected
Ulysses S. Grant quarreled with the president and aligned himself with the radical republicans -
Sharecropping
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15 amendment
denying voting rights to citizens based on race, color -
Enforcement act
The enforcement acts were three bills passed by the united states congress between 1870 and 1871 -
Amnesty act of 1872
The amnesty act of may 22, 1872 was a united states federal law that removed voting restrictions and office-holding -
freedmens Bureau terminated
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Lame duck Congress passes Civil Rights Act
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Disputed Election
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Hayes declared President
the reconstruction had ended and Rutherford B. Hayes had won the presidency election and declared him president -
compromise of 1877
Federal troops out of state politics in the south and ended the reconstruction era
