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The Freedmen's Bureau
The Freedmen's Bureau was a federal agency before the end of the Civil War during the Reconstruction Era. The Freedmen's Bureau was set to help and protect emancipated slaves during their transition from a life of slavery to a life of freedom.
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President Lincoln is Assassinated
Abraham Lincoln was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth. And he was the first president of the United States that got assassinated. John Andrew became president after Abraham Lincoln got assassinated. -
The 13th Amendment is Passed
The 13th Amendments was made slavery illegal in the United States. It was adopted as part of the Constitution. Slavery was a part of the Early British Colonies and United States. The fight to end slavery in the United States took a lot of years and finally ended. -
Civil Rights Act of 1866
The Citizen Rights Act was the first United States federal law to define citizenship and affirm that all citizens are equally protected by the law. The Act was passed by Congress in 1866 and vetoed by United States President Andrew Johnson. -
Ku Klux Klan
The Ku Klux Klan goals were the political defeat of the Republican party and the maintenance of absolute white supremacy in response to newly gained civil and political rights by southern Blacks after the civil war. They were more successful in achieving their political goals than they were with their social goals during the Reconstruction era. -
Military Reconstruction Acts
The congress passed the Military Reconstruction Act because they wanted to punish the South and to prevent the ruling class from continuing in power. -
Andrew Johnson's Impeachment Trial
The House of Representatives impeach president Johnson because the primary charge against Johnson was that he had violated the Tenure of Office Act, passed by Congress in March over Johnson's veto. He had removed from office Edwin Stanton the secretary of war whom the act was largely designed to protect. The house felt he had brought the office of the president into disgrace. -
Election of Ulysses S. Grant
The causes of Ulysses S. Grant presidency to be marked with scandals was the unmatched way that Grant ran his cabinet, in a military style rather than civilian. -
14th Amendment
The 14th Amendment is about many aspects of citizenship and the rights of citizens. Also, the 14th amendments to the U.S. constitution ratified in 1868 granted citizenship to all persons born or naturalized in the United Sates with the former enslaved people and guaranteed all citizens. -
15th Amendment
The 15th Amendments significance was guaranteed African American men the right to vote. African Americans began to take part in running for office and voting. -
Reconstruction Ends
Reconstruction ended with the contested Presidential election. And because of an event known as the Great Betrayal wherein the government pulled federal troops out of state politics in the South