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The Freedmen's Bureau was established to help and protect emancipated slaves during their transition from a life of slavery to a life of freedom -
President Lincoln was assassinated by John Wilkesbooth while watching a play with his wife. -
The Thirteenth Amendment made slavery illegal in the United States and was adopted as part of the Constitution -
The Civil Rights Act of 1866 detailed the rights of all U.S. citizens, including the right to buy and sell property, engage in business, make contracts, sue and give evidence in court. -
the Ku Klux Klan was to oppose the Reconstruction policies of the radical Republican Congress and to maintain white supremacy , and originated this Secret Society in the South. -
The acts created five military districts in the seceded states ,and required former Confederate states to submit new constitutions to Congress for approval, so that there could be an extend to voting rights to all men. -
Johnson became the first American president to be impeached because he had violated the Tenure of Office Act, passed by Congress in March 1867 over Johnson's veto. -
In 1865, as commanding general, Ulysses S. Grant led the Union Armies to victory over the Confederacy in the American Civil War. As an American hero, Grant was later elected the 18th President of the United States (1869–1877), working to implement Congressional Reconstruction and to remove the vestiges of slavery. -
This amendment granted citizenship and equal civil and legal rights to African Americans and enslaved people who had been emancipated after the American Civil War. -
The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude. -
The Reconstruction lasted from 1865 to 1877.Much of the Southern United States was destroyed during the Civil war, and the purpose of the Reconstruction was to help the South become a part of the Union again. Under Lincoln's plan, any state that was readmitted must make slavery illegal as part of their constitution.