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Freedmen’s Bureau

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Provided more financial support for the Freedmen’s bureau and extended its authority to defend the rights of black people
many any person born in us a citizen
johnson veto, stunned republicans
drove the radical republicans

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Radical Republicans

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want a strict policy toward the south, argued that this would keep the people who led the secession from regaining power and weakening the control of radical republicans
post-war reconstruction

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Civil Rights Bill 1866

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Johnson vetoed and with a 2/3 vote in congress it passed

made any person born in us a citizen
johnson veto, stunned republicans
drove the radical republicans

mandated that “all persons born in the United States,” with the exception of American Indians, were “hereby declared to be citizens of the United States.”

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14th Amendment

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Citizenship
equal protection
bill of rights in all states

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13th amendment

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freed slaves

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15th amendment

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granted black men the right to vote

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Black Codes

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loophole for black people, republicans became further disillusioned with Johnson as Southern state legislatures adopted black codes
restricted loitering, using firearms, hunting, fishing, vote, serve jurys
slaves of the state

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reconstruction act of

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1867
radical changes
outlined the terms for readmission to representation of rebel states
each state had to write a new constitution and ratify the 14th amendment, each state had to let black people vote
republicans gained control of congress
1868- creation of KKK

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carpet baggers

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opponents of Reconstruction
describes northerners who moved to south after war, supposedly in an effort to get rich or acquire political power

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massacre at colfax louisiana

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1873
about 62-153 black militia men were murdered while surrendering to a mob of former confederate soldiers and members of the KKK

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bargain of 1877

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Through Republican President Rutherford B. Hayes, the rest of the troops from the south would be removed, legislation would be passed to assist in the industrialization of the south
kill reconstruction
states passed laws to discriminate against black people

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