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Election of Abraham Lincoln
In 1860, Lincoln won the presidential nomination. In the November 1860 election, Lincoln again faced Douglas, who represented the Northern faction of a heavily divided Democratic Party, as well as Breckinridge and Bell. -
Civil War
The Civil War was a civil war in the United States fought from 1861 to 1865. The Union had faced secessionists in eleven Southern states grouped together as the Confederate States of America -
secession of southern states
South Carolina was the first to leave the Union and formed a new nation called Confederate States of America. So Four months later, six other states separate. There was Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Texas and Louisiana. And then later the Virginia, Arkansas, North Carolina, and Tennessee joined them. -
Emancipation Proclamation
President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation on January 1, 1863, as the nation approached its third year of bloody civil war. The proclamation declared "that all persons held as slaves" within the rebellious states "are, and henceforward shall be free." -
13th Amendment
the 13th amendment is declared that Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime weather the party should have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction. -
Civil Rights Act Of 1875
The Civil Rights Act of 1875 (18 Stat. 335–337), sometimes called Enforcement Act or Force Act, was a United States federal law enacted during the Reconstruction Era to guarantee African Americans equal treatment in public accommodations, public transportation, and to prohibit exclusion from jury service. -
Freedmen's Bureau
The Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, usually referred to as simply the Freedmen's Bureau, was a U.S. federal government agency established in 1865 to aid freedmen. -
Assassination Of Abraham Lincoln
In April 15, 1865,Abraham Lincoln was at the Petersen House, in Washington, D.C. before his death -
Reconstruction
Reconstruction refers to the Civil War of rebuilding the United States. It was a time of pain and endless questions. And would the Confederacy be allowed back into the Union? Who would establish the terms, Congress or the President? were most of the questions by the union. in the year of 1865. -
Radical Reconstruction
Radical Reconstruction. After northern voters rejected Johnson's policies in the congressional elections in late 1866, Republicans in Congress took firm hold of Reconstruction in the South. -
14th Amendment
The 14th Amendment is in the Constitution and was ratified on July 9, 1868, and granted citizenship to "all persons born or naturalized in the United States,” which included former slaves recently freed" -
15th amendment
15th Amendment to the Constitution The 15th Amendment to the Constitution granted African American men the right to vote by declaring that 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." Although ratified on February 3, 1870, the promise of the 15th Amendment would not be fully realized for almost a century. -
first african american elected to congress during reconstruction
During Reconstruction, only the state legislature of Mississippi elected any black senators. On February 25, 1870, Hiram Rhodes Revels was seated as the first black member of the Senate, while Blanche Bruce, also of Mississippi, seated in 1875, was the second. Revels was the first black member of the Congress overall. -
Sharecropping
Sharecropping is a term of agriculture which a landowner allows a tenant/person who is to use the land in return for a share of the crops produced on their portion of land (1850's - 1960's)
