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In December of 1864 the 13th Amendment is ratified, this sparks the ending to the Civil War
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This Bureau was estalished to help emacipated slaves back into society.
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The war ended when Robert E. Lee surrendered the last major Confederate army to Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox Courthouse.
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After Lincolns death, Andrew Johnson becomes the 17th president of the United States.
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Benjamin Butler was a well known Union General of the civil ear and advocated for rights of African Americans.
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The Civil Rights Act of 1866 is passed by congress, despite Johnsons earlier veto.
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This amendment says that all people born in the United States have rights to citizenship and equal protection under the laws of the United States.
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Grant is a former Union General and becomes 18th President. At the time was the youngest president in the history of the US
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Hiram Revels is the first African American Senator.
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The last of the Federal Troops leave South Carolina, being the last of the military presence in the south.
