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Emancipation Proclamation
Declared slaves “forever free” in the Confederate areas still in rebellion, but it did not free any slaves immediately. Changes the war aim from keeping the Union together to ending slavery, and removed any change of a negotiated settlement with the South -
West Virginia Becomes a State
They broke away from Virginia because of their different beliefs of slavery. Mountainous and rocky; no plantations -
Pickett’s Charge
George Pickett led 15,000 men on a charge to attack the Union and failed. 10,000 were killed. -
Gettysburg Address
Ceremony to dedicate a cemetery to all lives lost in the Civil War. The message was that all men are created equal including slaves. -
Sherman’s March to the Sea
Sherman captures Atlanta and burns it. Engaged in total war, destroying everything in his path. Sherman took Savannah and marched to South Carolina. -
Lincoln’s Assassination
Lincoln is assassinated at Ford’s Theatre by John Wilkes Booth. -
Black Codes
Laws designed to regulate the affairs of the emancipated blacks and keep them as slaves. -
Reconstruction Act
Divided the South into 5 military districts, each commanded by a general. Required that the states wishing to be brought back into the Union must pass the 14th Amendment -
Panic of 1873
A financial crisis that triggered an economic depression in Europe and North America that lasted from 1873 to 1877 -
Compromise of 1877
Resulted in US pulling the troops out of the South ending reconstruction -
Jim Crow Laws
State and local laws that enforced racial segregation in the South
