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This helped freedmen and poor whites with food, shelter, and clothing. They built schools for freedmen. This was created by congress.
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Reconstruction is the act of rebuilding. They had to do a lot of reconstruction after the Civil War
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Confederate signed the treaty to surrender. It happen in the Appomattox court house. That is located in virgina
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Five days after lee's surrender he got assassinated. John Wilkes Booth shot Abraham Lincoln at Ford's Theatre. He died in the house across the street the next moring
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It ended slavery. It canceled all war debts. It repealed their secession ordinances
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It states you have to be born in the U.S to be a citizen. Also it states that no state can enforce a law to abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens. The congress can in force this by legislation
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He was among two state senators and 25 black republican state representatives. He gave a speech that denounced the legislatiors who had refused to seat african americans senators and representives. He was among the first group of reconstruction-era african americans elected officials.
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A citizen can notbe denied to vote by the U.S because of his coloror previous conditionof servitude. Congresshas power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.This was not fullyrealized untill almost a century.
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Goergia had to ratify 3 amendments to get back in. They hadto ambolishment slavery, equal protection for all citizens, and blacks being able to vote.They also had to submit to military law.
