| 1860s-1870s |
Rise and Fall of Reconstruction |
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| March 1865 |
Freedmen’s Bureau run by northern army |
| April 1865 |
Abraham Lincoln assassinated; Andrew Johnson (from Tennessee) became President |
| 1865 |
amnesty for southern whites; no land redistribution for freed slaves |
| 1866 |
Ku Klux Klan organized (torched black schools; intimidated black male voters; etc.) |
| 1876-1877 |
fraudulent election of “President” Rutherford Hayes (from Ohio) |
| 1877 |
Northern army was withdrawn from South — no further enforcement of federal law until 1960s |