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Union forces advanced into Tennessee, Arkansas, and Louisiana.
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Lincoln made the Proclamation of Amnesty and Reconstruction.
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Congress passed the Wade-Davis Bill which required the majority of the adult white men in a confederate state to take an oath of allegiance to the union.
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Freedmen's Bureau was found.
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Lincoln was assasinated by John Wilkes Booth.
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Civil Rights Act was passed which granted citizenship to all the people born in the United States except Native Americans.
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Fourteenth Amendment was passed which granted citizenship to people born in the United States and said that no state could take away any person of life, liberty, or property "without due process of law"
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The Election of 1866: President Johnson made the 14th amendment the main issue at the 1866 congressional elections ad hoped that Northern voters would turn against the Republicans and elect him to help his plan for Reconstruction.
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A white mob attacked delegates at a convention in New Orleans who were supportin voting rights for African Americans.
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Ku Klux Klan was started by former confederate soldiers in Pulaski, Tennessee; spread in the south to drive out union troops and regain control of the South for the Democratic party.
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The act divided the former confederacy, except for Tennessee, into five military districts.
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Required all orders from the President to go throught the headquarters of the general of the army.
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Required the senate to approve the removal of any government official whose appointment required the senate's consent.
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Johnson fired Stanton because of the Tenure of Office Act.
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House of Representatives voted to impeach Johnson (charge him with crimes and misdemanors) which led to conviction.
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The Senate voted 35 to 19 that Johnson was guilty of high crimes and misdemeanors.
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Johnson couldn't run for the election, but General Grant, the most popular war hero in the North, was nominated and won.
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Congress passed the 15th amendment which declared that the right to vote shall not be denied on account of race or color.
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Congress passed 3 enforcement acts to stop the violence in the South:
-Federal crime to interfere with a citizen's right to vote
-Federal elections put under supervision of federal marshals.
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Grant was reelected for president, not Horace Greeley.
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The fear of bankruptcy in the world went on which made most banks close down.
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Democrats won control of the House of Representatives in the midterm elections.
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Democrats took control of all southern state legislatures except Louisiana, Sotuh Carolina, and Florida.
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Republicans nominated Rutherford B. Hayes and Democrats nominated Smuel Tilden for the election; both had equal votes but Hayes won.
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Railroads were introduced across the world.
