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reconstruction 2
Title: reconstruction 2
Category: History
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reconstruction 2
Reconstruction: the period of US history in which the nation tried to adjust
to the new conditions created by the Civil War
Results: slavery abolished; Freedmen's Bureau provides services for war
refugees and freed people (including food, medical aid, and education); Civil
Rights Act passed in 1866 - gives federal government power to protect African
American rights; the Reconstruction Acts establish Radical Reconstruction;
the KKK acts seek to outlaw organizations aimed at denying African Americans
their rights; …showed first 75 words of 693 total…
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Secretary of War (Edwin Stanton a Radical Republican) and therefore went
against the Tenure of Office Act (Senate has to approve of the firing of an
official previously approved by the senate)
Life after Freedom (For African Americans): Many children began getting an
education, voluntary organizations began to help the freed people, sought
political involvement, gained control of land and labor, KKK intimidated and
hurt/killed African Americans, some had no where to go.
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