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The Freedmen's Bureau
The Freedmen's Bureau was a federal agency that established on March 3, 1865 right before the end of the Civil War during the Reconstruction Era. They supported the education for freedmen. The administration of justice in cases concerning the black freedmen. They performed relief work for both black and white poor people in the South. -
President Lincoln is Assassinated
President Abraham Lincoln was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth. Andrew Jackson became the 17th president of the United States after Abraham Lincoln was assassinated. -
The 13th Amendment is Passed
The 13th Amendment had made slavery illegal in the United States. The state of Mississippi ratified the amendment in 1995. The Supreme Court was ruled because the military draft wasn't a violation of the Thirteenth Amendment -
Civil Rights Act of 1866
Congress made African Americans an equal status under the law. The Civil Rights Act of 1866 part of Congress took control of the Reconstruction of the union and slavery was eradicated in the U.S after the Civil War. -
Ku Klux Klan
Ku Klux Klan goals was to organize white southern resistance to the Republican Party's Reconstruction. -
Military Reconstruction Acts
Congress passed the Military Reconstruction Acts in 1867 which divided the South into five military districts and outlined how the new governments would be designed. -
Andrew Johnson's Impeachment Trial
Johnson was impeached because of his removal of Edwin Stanton. Johnson was kept because he needed to answer 12 articles and was acquitted in the Senate by one vote. One fact about this Johnson impeachment was interesting. -
Election of Ulysses S. Grant
The caused of Ulysses S. Grant's presidency to be marked with scandals was that he soared after the Civil War, won the presidential election in 1868, served two terms as president, and ran for third. Grant fought for the civil rights for African Americans. -
14th Amendment
The 14th amendment was about how they granted citizenship to "all person or naturalized in the United States" which was ratified on July 9, 1868. -
15th Amendment
The significance was to protect the rights of Americans to elect their leaders. -
Reconstruction Ends
It ended under the presidency of Rutherford B. Hayed in 1877. He removed the federal troops from the South and the state government took over.