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Reconstruction
The period after the Civil War in which the states formerly part of the Confederacy were brought back into the United States. -
end of 1865
southern states except Texas had created new governments -
1865
Congress established the Freemen's Bureau -
1866
Congress proposed new bill, that would give Freedmen's Bureau more power -
May 1, 1866
a dispute in Memphis, Tennessee, took place between local police and black Union soldiers. -
March 1867
Congress passed the first of several Reconstruction Acts. -
1868
Former general Grant got nominated for president. -
1869
Congress proposed the Fifteenth Amendment -
1870
Hiram Revels became the first African American in the U.S Senate. -
Act of 1872
The Amnesty Act of 1872 allowed former Confederates to serve in public office. -
1877
President Hayes removed federal troops from South
