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Civil War ended
US government faced the problem of dealing with the defeated South -
Freedmen's Bureau
Congress established the freedman's Bureau -
Thirteenth Amendment
Congress proposed the thirteenth Amendment -
Pres. Lincoln
Attended Fords theture wiht his wife -
ratified
Thirteenth Amendment was ratified -
African Americans
African Americans were more free -
reconstruction
Reconstruction lasted from 1865-1877