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dred scott decision
in 1847 the government declared that blacks were not american citizens. therefore they were not allowed to sue anybody. dred scott had been living in the free state of illinios and wanted to become a freee black with rights. he sued for his freedom and eventually won the fight when they had evidence that he had been a free slave for a couple of years. -
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civil war timeline
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uncle toms cabin is published
uncle tom was recognized for his work towards the abolition movement and for his work in the Underground Railroad, he rose to international fame after Harriet Beecher Stowe acknowledged him as a source for her book against slavery, Uncle Tom’s Cabin. -
kansas nebraska act
stephen douglass was determined to get the great plains settled. he wanted to divide kansas and nebraska.he tried to avoid the issue of slavery by exerscising popular soverenty. he also wanted to undo the missouri compromise which would allow slavery above the missouri line. -
election of 1860
abraham lincoln won the election of 1860 againts stephen douglass. this signaled south carolina to seceed from the u.s. this also was the start of lincolns journey to end slavery. this was also the end of the whig party. -
emancipation proclamation
President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation on January 1, 1863. it said that all persons held as slaves within the rebellious areas are, and from now on shall be free. -
freedmans bureau is founded
At the end of the war, the Bureau's main role was providing emergency food, housing, and medical aid to refugees, though it also helped reunite families. Later, it focused its work on helping the freedmen adjust to their conditions of freedom. Its main job was setting up work opportunities and supervising labor contracts. It soon became, in effect, a military court that handled legal issues. By 1866, it was attacked by Southern whites for organizing blacks against their former masters. -
appomattox courthose surrender
The Battle of Appomattox Court House, fought on the morning of April 9, 1865, was the final engagement of Confederate States Army General Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia before it surrendered to the Union Army under Lt. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant, and one of the last battles of the American Civil War. -
president lincolns assasination
The assassination of United States President Abraham Lincoln took place on Good Friday, April 14, 1865, as the American Civil War was drawing to a close. The assassination occurred five days after the commanding general of the Army of Northern Virginia, Robert E. Lee, and his battered Army of Northern Virginia surrendered to General Ulysses S. Grant and the Army of the Potomac. Lincoln was the first American president to be assassinated, -
gettysburg address
The Gettysburg Address is a speech by U.S. President Abraham Lincoln and is one of the best-known speeches in United States history. It was delivered by Lincoln during the American Civil War, on the afternoon of Thursday, November 19, 1863, at the dedication of the Soldiers National Cemetery in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, four and a half months after the Union armies defeated those of the Confederacy at the Battle of Gettysburg. -
13th amendment is ratified
the 13th amendment was passed by congress in 1865. it formally abolished slavery from the u.s. foreever. it said that slavery or any kind of involuntary servitude was illegal from now on. the only exception was time that had to be served for crimes. -
14th amendment is ratified
this was ratified on July 9, 1868, and it granted citizenship to all people born in the United States. this included former slaves recently freed. In addition, it forbided states from denying people life, liberty or property without due process of law. it also prevented people from denying any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws. -
confederate states of america is formed
south carolina seceeded from the u.s. in 1860. they asked the other slave states to jion them. when they did they formed another nation called the confederate states of america. these states were north carolina, south carolina, virginia, florida, georgia,alabama, tennessee, mississipi, louisiana, arkansas, and texas. -
15th amendment is ratified
the 15th amendment granted african american men the right to vote by declaring that the right of citizens of the United States to vote can not be denied by the United States on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude. although this was ratified on February 3, 1870, the 15th amendment would not be fully realized for almost a century. -
election of 1876
the election of 1876 was very controversial. the republicans nominated rutherford hayes and the democrats elected samuel tilden.tilden won the election but hayes was elected. many think a deal was made called the compromise of 1877 which elected hayes as president and pulled troops out of the south. this would end the reconstructon era.
