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Abraham Lincoln wins President of the United States of America. He earned enough electoral votes to beat all the other opponents.
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The Emancipation Proclamation granted freedom to the slaves in the Confederate States if the States did not return to the Union by January 1, 1863. In addition, under this proclamation, freedom would only come to the slaves if the Union won the war.
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The Gettysburg Address is a speech that U.S. President Abraham Lincoln delivered during the American Civil War. It stated that it would be a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and it’d be dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
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Black codes were laws designed to limit the freedom of African Americans and ensure their availability as a cheap labor force after slavery was abolished during the Civil War. They made black people sign labor contracts for minimal pay and penalties.
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Abraham Lincoln was shot and killed by John Wilkes Booth in his box at Ford's Theater in Washington.
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Jim Crow laws were a collection of state and local statutes that legalized racial segregation. The laws were meant for African Americans by denying them the right to vote, hold jobs, get an education or other opportunities.
