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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
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They broke away from Virginia because of their different beliefs of slavery. Mountainous and rocky; no plantations
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George Pickett led 15,000 men on a charge to attack the Union and failed. 10,000 were killed.
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Ceremony to dedicate a cemetery to all lives lost in the Civil War. The message was that all men are created equal including slaves.
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Sherman captures Atlanta and burns it. Engaged in total war, destroying everything in his path. Sherman took Savannah and marched to South Carolina.
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Lincoln is assassinated at Ford’s Theatre by John Wilkes Booth.
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Laws designed to regulate the affairs of the emancipated blacks and keep them as slaves.
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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
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A financial crisis that triggered an economic depression in Europe and North America that lasted from 1873 to 1877
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Resulted in US pulling the troops out of the South ending reconstruction
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State and local laws that enforced racial segregation in the South
