Lincoln

Election of Abraham Lincoln

By tessa.phillips

  • Election of Abraham Lincoln

    Election of Abraham Lincoln
    He tried to stop slavery in the southern states, but also swayed the movement in the South to split with the Union.

  • Emancipation Proclimation

    Emancipation Proclimation
    President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation on January 1, 1863. The proclamation declared "that all persons held as slaves" within the rebellious states "are, and henceforward shall be free."

  • 13th Amendment

    13th Amendment
    The 13th Amendment were important because the 13th ended slavery.

  • Succession

    Succession
    After Abraham Lincoln was assisnated, the Vice President became the President. This man's name was Andrew Johnson and he was from the South and unraveled all of the work that Lincoln had accomplished. He remained in the Senate even when Tennessee seceded, which made him a hero in the North and a traitor in the eyes of most Southerners.

  • Formation of the Klu Klux Klan

    Formation of the Klu Klux Klan
    The Ku Klux Klan is a racist, anti-Semitic movement with a commitment to extreme violence to achieve its goals of racial segregation and white supremacy.

  • 14th Amedment

    14th Amedment
    THe 14th Amendment made everyone a citizen disreguarding race, color, or gender.

  • 15th Amendment

    15th Amendment
    The 15th Amendment gave African Americans the right to vote.

  • Jim Crow Laws

    Jim Crow Laws
    Jim Crow was a series of rigid anti- Black laws that relegated African Americans to the status of second class citizens.

  • Election of 1876

    Election of 1876
    In the election of 1876 Samuel J. Tilden, the Democratic candidate, received a popular majority but lacked one undisputed electoral vote to carry a clear majority of the electoral college. Read more: Election of 1876 — Infoplease.com http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0101175.html#ixzz1Wi0IEgbB

  • Civil Rights Cases

    Civil Rights Cases
    African-American citizens protested their exclusion from a hotel dining room in Topeka, Kansas; from the opera in New York City; from the better seats of a San Francisco theater; and from a car set aside for ladies on a train.