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Lincoln offered amnesty who took an oath of loyalty to the united states .
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The Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution officially outlaws slavery and involuntary servitude, except as punishment for a crime.
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It was passed on March 3, 1865, by Congress to aid former slaves through legal food and housing, oversight, education, health care, and employment contracts with private landowners.
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John Wilkes Booth shot him in the head.
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he served March 4, 1865 to April 15, 1865. He was the 17th president
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Black Codes was a name given to laws passed by southern governments established during the presidency of Andrew Johnson. These laws imposed severe restrictions on freed slaves such as prohibiting their right to vote, forbidding them to sit on juries, limiting their right to testify against white men, carrying weapons in public places and working in certain occupations.
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Its Due Process Clause prohibits state and local governments from depriving persons of life, liberty, or property without certain steps being taken to ensure fairness. This clause has been used to make most of the Bill of Rights applicable to the states, as well as to recognize substantive and procedural rights
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The New Orleans Riot, which occurred on July 30, 1866, was a violent conflict outside of the Mechanics Institute in New Orleans during the reconvened Louisiana Constitutional Convention. The Radical Republicans in Louisiana, who reconvened the Constitutional Convention, were angered by the enactment of the Black Codes in Louisiana and by the legislature's refusal to give black men the vote. The reconvened convention was illegally formed and its intended purpose was to use the popular Republican
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The reconstruction act of 1867 was a series of statutes meant to help reconstruct the United States after the devastation of the Civil War. These statutes where made to :
- give voting rights to all men in Confederate states
- require congressional approval for new state constitutions
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An Act supplementary to an Act entitled "An Act to provide for the more efficient Government of the Rebel States," passed and to facilitate Restoration.
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On Mar. 2, 1867, Congress enacted the Reconstruction Act, which, supplemented later by three related acts, divided the South (except Tennessee) into five military districts in which the authority of the army commander was supreme. Johnson continued to oppose congressional policy,
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Be it enacted . . ., That hereafter any election authorized by the act shall be decided by a majority of the votes actually cast; and at the election in which the question
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Menard is barred from his seat by white members of Congress. When Menard pleaded his case to be seated, he became the first Black representative to speak on the floor of the House.
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ames J. Harris and P.B.S. Pinchback are the first African American delegates
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Although allied with the Radical Republicans in Congress he does not provide strong leadership for Reconstruction.
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Entitles all persons born or naturalized in the United States to citizenship and equal protection under the laws of the United States.
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The Fifteenth Amendment (Amendment XV) to the United States Constitution prohibits each government in the United States from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's
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robert Brown Elliot from the 3rd District in South Carolina.
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Benjamin S. Turner of Alabama; Josiah T. Walls of Florida; and Robert Brown Elliot, Joseph H. Rainey and Robert Carlos DeLarge of South Carolina.
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