Reconstruction

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Reconstruction
Presidential Reconstruction-Johnson
Freedmans Bureau
Impeachment
Radical Republicans
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Important Constitutional Amendments

• 13th-Outlawed Slavery
• 14th-Slaves citizens, states can not deny rights
  Life, Liberty, Property
• 15th-Right to vote can not be denied by race,
  color or previous condition of servitude Sex not
  addressed

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President Ulysses Grant 1868-1876-Republican
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• By 1871 all Southern States Readmitted
• Blacks Admitted to Congress and Senate
• But Racism Flared

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Rutherford Hayes1876-1880 Republican Wins as a
result of Compromise of 1877
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• Grandfather Clause, Literacy Tests, Secret
  Ballot, Poll Tax
• Jim Crow
• Lynching

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Native Americans-Resistance

• Bureau of Indian Affairs
• Sioux Uprising of 1862
• -38 Sioux hung

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• The Fetterman Massacre 1866, Wyoming
• 80 Soldiers Killed
• 1877 Little Big Horn
• 7th Cavalry George Custer
• Over 260 Soldiers Dead

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Native American-Crack Down

• Nez Pearce-Chief Joseph
• Idaho, 1,500 Miles
• Apache-Geronimo
• Dawes Severalty Act 1887

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Wounded Knee

• Ghost Dance Wovoka
• December 29, 1890
• 200 Killed