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Emancipation Proclamation
Lincoln’s emancipation proclamation stated that slavery would officially end. This did not free many slaves because they land was under confederate control so the union had trouble freeing them. The plantations were usually located far away from the union. This law also said that that northern slaves were not free. Lincoln didn't want to free all salves because he thought he didn't have the constitutional power to do so. This weakened the south and made the civil war into a war of liberation. -
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Gettysburg Address
Lincoln's short but powerful Gettysburg Address places the Civil War into the historical context of the American fight for freedom. Lincoln asserts that the war is a test of the ideals for which colonials fought in 1776. In an attempt to give direction to the divided country, Lincoln urges Americans to devote themselves to the task begun but not yet completed to preserve freedom for all Americans. -
Black codes
Laws to keep the blacks slaves. Slaves were kept slaves for a year and if they tried to be free, they would go to jail. -
Lincolns Assassination
On April 14th, 1865 Lincoln goes to Ford’s Theatre, on his way there he gets assassinated. John Wilkes Booth, a pro south actor, shot Lincoln in the head at Ford Theater. Southerners were happy Lincoln was gone but soon they realized that they would’ve been treated much better with Lincoln as president. -
Reconstruction Act
The period after the Civil War in the United States when the southern states were reorganized and reintegrated into the Union. It was required that the states wanting to join back into the Union must pass the 14th and 15th Amendment. -
Jim Crow Laws
Jim Crow laws were state and local laws passed from the end of Reconstruction in 1877 through the mid-1950s by which white southerners reasserted their dominance by denying African Americans basic social, economic, and civil rights, such as the right to vote.
