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The Gettysburg Address was a speech made by Abraham Lincoln. It was a memorial to the fallen soldiers in battle.
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A group of white southerners, who didn't like African Americans gaining right, got together and used violence to terrorize and frighten the African Americans. They wore white robes and hoods to hide their identity. At first it wasn't meant to be a terrorist group but then it turned violent. The group started off small but grew with generals, government officials, and criminals joining.
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The thirteenth amendment was passed. It abolished slavery and made it illegal. The southern states were mad.
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John Wilkes Booth shot Lincoln while he was at a play. He didn't agree with Lincoln that African Americans should get freedoms. He was an angry Southerner.
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The government didn't agree with what President Johnson was doing. They thought that it should go back to when Abraham Lincoln was alive and how he was ending slavery. They wanted to get the Union back together for the right reasons.
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This amendment stated that every person born on US soil should get equality. The southern states didn't think that everyone should get freedom especially the African Americans.
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It gave African American men the right to vote. It made them feel like there was more equality. White people thought that it would ruing the government and make it bad.
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They were laws that made every public place segregated. Their were rooms for colored and different ones for whites. African Americans would have to sit at the back of a bus while white people got to sit in the front.
