Reconstruction Acts: Quick Facts

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Facts

Date	February 1867 • 1868
Location	United States
Context	Radical Republican • Reconstruction • the South

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Andrew Johnson

Andrew Johnson

president of United States

"The Fifteenth Amendment. Celebrated May 19th, 1870" color lithograph created by Thomas Kelly, 1870. (Reconstruction) At center, a depiction of a parade in celebration of the passing of the 15th Amendment. Framing it are portraits and vignettes...

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