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The freedmans Bureau
was a U.S. federal government agency that aided distressed freedmen (freed slaves) during the Reconstruction era of the United States -
founding of the KKK
In Pulaski, Tennessee, a group of Confederate veterans convenes to form a secret society that they christen the "Ku Klux Klan." -
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black codes
hese laws had the intent and the effect of restricting African Americans' freedom, and of compelling them to work in a labor economy based on low wages or debt. -
The Civil Rights act of 1866
An Act to protect all Persons in the United States in their Civil Rights and liberties, and furnish the Means of their Vindication. -
Military reconstruction act
The radical republicans were allowed to have the south split up into 5 military bases. -
Tenure office act
The Tenure of Office Act was a United States federal law (in force from 1867 to 1887) that was intended to restrict the power of the President of the United States to remove certain office-holders without the approval of the Senate -
The impeachment of Andrew Johnson
They impeached andrew johnson for violating the tenure of office act -
The 14th amendent
All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the state wherein they reside -
The election of Ulysses S. Grant
Grant was a sucssessful army general and they elected him as president. -
The 13th amendment
The 13th Amendment to the Constitution declared that "Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction. -
The 15th Amendment
This amendment allowed african americans to vote -
The Amnasty Act
The Amnesty Act of May 22, 1872 was a United States federal law that removed voting restrictions and office-holding disqualification against most of the secessionists who rebelled in the American Civil War, except for some 500 military leaders of the Confederacy. The act was passed by the 42nd United States Congress and the original restrictive Act was passed by the United States Congress on May 1866. -
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jim crow
The Jim Crow laws made it so that what whits had, blacks had to have as well, but whites were usually nicer -
The comprimise act 1877
unwritten deal that settled the intensely disputed 1876 U.S. presidential election, pulled federal troops out of state politics in the South -
Plessy V. Ferguson
This allowed whites to seperate them selves from the blacks, with nicer stuff and higher qualitie things
