Free Slaves

By lakota.ironrope

  • The election of Abraham Lincoln

    The election of Abraham Lincoln
    Lincoln emancipated slaves.

  • Emancipation Proclamation

    Emancipation Proclamation
    The proclamtion, passed by Lincoln, set the slaves free, even in the southern states.

  • Succession

    Succession
    Lincoln was assassinated because he gave blacks the right to vote. Andrew Johnson succeeded Lincoln.

  • The 13th amendment

    The 13th amendment
    The 13th Amendment to the United States Constitution officially abolished, and continues to prohibit, slavery, and, with limited exceptions, prohibits involuntary servitude.

  • Formation of the KKK

    Formation of the KKK
    The original reason of the KKK was to stop blakc people from voting.

  • 14th amendment

    14th amendment
    The amendment was passed and gave blacks the right of citizenship in America.

  • 15th Amendment

    15th Amendment
    The amendment prohibits states from denying the right to vote on grounds of race or color.

  • The election of 1876

    The election of 1876
    The Rebuplicans accused the Democrats of discouraging and bribing the African Americans from voting in the south.

  • Civil Rights cases of 1883

    Civil Rights cases of 1883
    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.

  • Jim Crow Laws

    Jim Crow Laws
    The Jim Crow laws segrigated the blacks and whites. There were different restrooms, stores, theaters, hotels, cinemas, etc. for the blacks.