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Lincoln's Pre-Reconstruction Period (1862-1865)

In Washington, Abraham Lincoln has his own ideas about what should happen with the slaves, and he's going to make it happen if the stars will just align for him.... Discussion includes Emancipation Proclamation, Louisiana 10% electorate plan, Legalization of slave marriages, Freedmen's Bureau, Bans color discrimination, the February 1865 peace conference,
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Post-War Reconstruction (April 1865-1868)

This date range is: Post Lincoln Assassination up to the period when U.S. Grant is Elected President. Includes discussion about period when 13th Amendment was ratified, Black Codes were enacted, Civil Rights Act of 1866 passed, New Orleans Race Riot happened, Ku Klux Klan Founded, Reconstruction Acts passed, President Johnson's Impeachment Trial failed by one vote, and the Fourteenth Amendment was ratified.
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Radical Reconstruction to the End (1869-1877)

Period Includes: U.S. Grant Takes Office as President, First Redeemer Government elected in Tennessee, the First black U.S. Senator elected, the Fifteenth Amendment ratified, the forty-second U.S. Congress seated with five black members, the Freedmen's Bureau abolished, the first African American governor sworn in, Democrats get control the Forty-third Congress for first time since before Civil War, Civil Rights Act of 1875 enacted by Congress, a Disputed Presidential election, Wade Hampton inaugurated as governor of South Carolina, Rutherford B. Hayes inaugurated President, President Hayes removed troops from the capitals of the remaining Reconstruction states ending the Reconstruction Period.
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