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Congress creates the Freedmen's Bureau
To help freed men and women transition from slavery -
Civil War Ends
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Andrew Johnson becomes President
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President Abraham Lincoln is assassinated
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13th Amendment to the constitution passes
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The KKK is founded
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Radical Republicans take over US government
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Civil Rights Act of 1866
Allows African Americans to own property and to be treated equally in court. -
14th Amendment to the constitution passes
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Ulysses S. Grant is elected President
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15th Amendment to the constitution passes
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First African American elected to the US Congress
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Congress passes the KKK Act of 1871
In response to widespread violence in the South. -
The Freedmen's Bureau ends
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Radical Republicans are no longer in control
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Rutherford B. Hayes is elected President and Reconstruction ends
Hayes pulls all remaining Northern troops out of the Southern States