RECONSTRUCTION 1865 1877
THE RECONSTRUCTION ERA
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African American slaves who ran away from their owners.
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Northern whites who came to form governments in the southern states.
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Southern whites who tried to frighten African Americans
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Slaves who were freed at the end of the Civil War.
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Detailed explanation-1: -The Emancipation Proclamation in 1863 freed African Americans in rebel states, and after the Civil War, the Thirteenth Amendment emancipated all U.S. slaves wherever they were.
Detailed explanation-2: -In the United States, the terms “freedmen” and “freedwomen” refer to former Black African slaves emancipated during and after the American Civil War by the Emancipation Proclamation and the Thirteenth Amendment.
Detailed explanation-3: -Contents. The Freedmen’s Bureau, formally known as the Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands, was established in 1865 by Congress to help millions of former black slaves and poor whites in the South in the aftermath of the Civil War.
Detailed explanation-4: -On March 3, 1865, Congress passed “An Act to establish a Bureau for the Relief of Freedmen and Refugees” to provide food, shelter, clothing, medical services, and land to displaced Southerners, including newly freed African Americans.
Detailed explanation-5: -The last slaves present in the continental United States were freed when those held by the Choctaw, who had sided with the Confederacy, were released in 1866.