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Lincoln Tries To Free Slaves
In 1862 right after the Civil War, most of the confederate soldiers were dead and so were the owners of plantations so they had no where to go, they were hungry, so Abraham Lincoln made the Emancipation Proclamation -
Protecting African American rights
They wanted to get rid of the Emancipation Proclamation, so instead of removing it they made the Black Codes. It was helped to control freed African Americans. Made it illeagel for African Americans to own farms or rent farms. They took advantage of African Americans, If they did not have jobs, they were either fined or put in jail. -
Black Codes
These laws were designed to help control the newly freed African Americans. Some of the laws made it illegal to buy or rent farms. It made it easy for whites to take advantage on African Americans to put them in jail if they did not have a job -
The Reconstruction Acts
Form new goverments. Act divided the 10 defiant states into five military districts each goverend by an army until new state goverments were formed. A aecond reconstruction act empowered the army to register voters in each district and to help organize state constitutional conventions -
The Fourteenth Amendment
Protected the citizenship extened to African Americans by the Civil Rights Act Of 1886 It guaranteed that citizenship could not later be taken away by passing another law -
The Fifteenth Amendment
This amendment guaranteed that stare and federal goverments could not deny the right to vote to any male citizen because of race, color, or previous condition of servitude -
CIvil Rights Act Of 1886
It gave federal goverment powere to get involved in state affiars to protect African Americans rights. It also granted citizenship to Afircan Americans.
