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- When was the Civil Rights Act OFFICIALLY passed?
- This was used during the Civil War and it means that they do not regard any rules or morals. They will essentially do whatever it takes to win
- When was president johnson impeached?
- When was the Freedman's Bureau abolished?
- The South used racism and violence as a means to attempt to prevent Republicanism in the South and it resulted in a halt in progress for Black American rights
- When were the first African Americans to serve in congress elected?
- When did congress deny south states attmpt. to join union?
- Who and when were southerners allowed equal representation in congress?
- When were troops removed from the south? Who did it?
- Reconstruction laws allowed the North to bring federal troops into major Southern cities to enforce black freedom
- When were more African American education systems built?
- Act passed by Congress that allowed enslaved people to fight with the North and earn their freedom after the war. Thousands of slaves jumped at the chance
- When was the freedman's bureau officially disbanded?
- Documents that confirmed Arkansas would fully secede on May 6, 1861. Slavery was never mentioned in the documents and the Governor said that the North thought slavery was a sin, and they did not.
- Who was the first African American congress member?
- When was Ulysses S. Grant reelected?
- how much land did SHA give to former slaves?
- When was the southern homestead act (attempted) passed?
- Decree that used federal power in the North to free all slaves in the seceding states, and as a result, the stated war goals previously were not shifted
- Confederate VP Alexander Stephens states in a speech the ideology of the Confederacy more succinctly. It claimed the war had always been about states rights, so many Confederates went against it