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Civil war
Pitted the union against the confederate States of America.In 1865 the Union. Robert E. Lee surrendered. the results of the war is that 620,000 men died and millions injured -
Election of Abraham Lincoln
Abraham was a Kentucky born lawyer also a Whig representative to congress.As Lincoln was a candidate he was up against Douglas. He became president in 1860. In 1861 seven states had seceded.1864 he emancipated the slave also won reelection.1885 he had been assassinated by a confederate John Wilkes Booth. -
Secession of Southern States
the first seven seceding states of the lower and upper south set up a provisional government Montgomery, Alabama. The original federal union strengthened the concept of secession. -
Emancipation Proclamation
All of the rebellious states got freed by president Lincoln and the slaves shall be freed forever. this proclamation did not free every slave but it was an important turning point of the american civil war transforming the fight to preserve but it put the nation into a battle for human freedom -
13th Amendment
The amendment to the U.S constitution officially abolished slavery in America. "niether slavery nor involuntary servitude,except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been dully evicted". -
Freedoms Bureau
Freedom and the abandoned lands established in 1865 by congress to help past black slaves and poor whites in the south in the aftermath of the U.S civil war. This provided food, housing, and medical aid established schools and offered legal assistance.Congress in part under pressure from white southerners, shut the bureau. -
Assassination of Abraham Lincoln
Abraham was shot at a play at Ford's Theater in Washington D.C. this attack came 5 days after the confederate General Robert E.Lee surrendered his huge army at Appomattox Court House. John Wilkes Booth shot him -
Reconstruction
This introduced a new set of significant challenges.New southern state legislatures passes restrictive "black codes" to control the labor and behavior of former slaves and other African Americans. -
sharcropping
In the early 1865 by granting a number of freed men 40 acres each of the abandoned land left by the army. during the reconstruction the process of sharecropping was that black families would rent small pieces of land in return for a portion of their crop to give to the actual landowner at the end of each year. -
1st African American elected to congress during Reconstuction
Hiram Rhoades Revels He Is a republican from Natchez, Mississippi. Hiram was the first congressmen to pass the first Reconstruction Act. This act divided the South into five military districts and granting suffrage to all male citizens. -
14th amendment
The equal protection clause was cited by a lot of African American activists who argued that racial segregation denied them the equal protection of law. the U.S supreme court ruled that they would be equal son long as they were equal to those afforded white persons. -
15th Amendment
This amendment passed the right of all men being able to vote. “the right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude.” the Voting Rights Act of 1965 aimed to overcome legal barriers at the state and local levels that denied blacks their right to vote under the 15th Amendment. -
Radical reconstruction
the radical reconstruction believed blacks were entitled to the same political rights and opportunities as whites.They also believed that the Confederate leaders should be punished for their roles in the Civil War. -
Civil Rights Act of 1875
this election won with the vote of 162 to 99. this was introduced by Charles Summer of Massachusetts. in 1870, the original bill outlawed racial discrimination in juries, schools, transportation, and public accommodations.
