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Period: to
Civil War
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Assassination of Lincoln
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Freedmen's bureau
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Period: to
Andrew Johnson
Vetoes of Reconstruction laws such as Freedmen's Bureau extension and the Civil Rights Act of 1866 (Congress overrode his vetoes) -
Reconstruction Act
Divided there South into military districts -
14th Amendment
African Americans aren't slaves but citizens
"born or naturalized in the US" -
Impeachment of Andrew Johnson
He survived removel by one vote
Cause: He fired Edwin Stanton for Secretary of war which violated the Tenure of Office Act -
15th Amendment
Right to vote for African Americans -
Compromise of 1877
In return for Rutherford B. Hayes to become president, federal troops were removed from the South, ending Reconstruction and leading to the rise of Jim Crow Laws.