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Freedom's Bureau Acts
This event offered assisstance, such as amedical aid and education, to freed slaves and war refugees. -
Lincolns Assassination
Abraham Lincoln was assassinated in Ford's Theatre on the balcony by John Wilkes Booth. Lincoln did not die right away the bullot got lodged by his ear in his skull he died the next morning lying in a bed. -
Civil RIghts Act
This even granted citizenship and equal protection under the law to African Americans. -
Reconstruction Act
Abolished governments formed in the former Confederate states; divided those states into five military districts; set up requirments for readmission to the Union. -
Johnson is Impeached
Radical leaders felt that President Johnson was not carrying out his constitutional obligation to enforce the REconstruction Act. Johnson removed ,military officers who attempted to enforce the act. -
Fourteenth Amendement
This event makes all people born or nationalized un the United States citizens; sipulates that states that prevented male citizens from voting would lose a percentage of their congressional seats; barred most Confederate leaders from holding political offices. -
Fifteenth Amendment
This event is important because states that no one can be kept from voting because of race, color, or previous condition of servitude. -
Enforcement Act of 1870
Protected the voting rights of African Americans and gave the federal government powerto enforce the fififteenth amendment.
