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