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  2. Reconstruction era - Wikipedia

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    The first plan for legal reconstruction was introduced by Lincoln in his Proclamation of Amnesty and Reconstruction, the so-called "ten percent plan" under which a loyal unionist state government would be established when ten percent of its 1860 voters pledged an oath of allegiance to the Union, with a complete pardon for those who pledged such ...

  3. African American founding fathers of the United States

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    According to Professors Jeffrey K. Tulis and Nicole Mellow: [11]. The Founding, Reconstruction (often called “the second founding”), and the New Deal are typically heralded as the most significant turning points in the country’s history, with many observers seeing each of these as political triumphs through which the United States has come to more closely realize its liberal ideals of ...

  4. Rufus Bullock - Wikipedia

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    Bullock served as the 46th Governor of Georgia from 1868 to 1871 during Reconstruction and was the first Republican governor of Georgia.After Georgia ratified the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution, the Omnibus Act declared that states were entitled to representation in Congress as one of the states of the Union.

  5. Civil rights movement (1865–1896) - Wikipedia

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    Freedmen voting in New Orleans, 1867. Reconstruction lasted from Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation of January 1, 1863 to the Compromise of 1877. [1] [2]The major issues faced by President Abraham Lincoln were the status of the ex-slaves (called "Freedmen"), the loyalty and civil rights of ex-rebels, the status of the 11 ex-Confederate states, the powers of the federal government needed to ...

  6. Founding Fathers of the United States - Wikipedia

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    Freedom of religion and freedom of speech were further affirmed as the nation's law in the Bill of Rights. [391] The 14th Amendment of 1868 provided all Americans with "equal protection under the laws" and thus applied the First Amendment restriction against limiting the free exercise of religion to the states.

  7. Nathan Bedford Forrest - Wikipedia

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    Nathan Bedford Forrest (July 13, 1821 – October 29, 1877) was a 19th-century American slave trader active in the lower Mississippi River valley, a Confederate States Army general during the American Civil War, and the first Grand Wizard of the Reconstruction-era Ku Klux Klan, serving from 1867 to 1869.

  8. More than 1,500 African American officeholders served during the Reconstruction era (1865–1877) and in the years after Reconstruction. [1] Historian Canter Brown Jr. noted that in some states, such as Florida, the highest number of African Americans were elected or appointed to offices after the end of Reconstruction in 1877. The following is ...

  9. List of civil rights leaders - Wikipedia

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    Born Died Country Notes George Mason: 1725 1792 United States: wrote the Virginia Declaration of Rights and influenced the United States Bill of Rights: Thomas Paine: 1737 1809 United States: English-American activist, author, theorist, wrote Rights of Man: Elizabeth Freeman: 1744 1829 United States