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Election of Abraham Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln won the election of 1860 with more electoral votes though he did not win the popular vote. -
Secession of southern states
The southern states seceded when Lincoln was elected president. They thought that Abraham Lincoln was going to end slavery everywhere and, therefore, endanger their way of life. The first state to secede was South Carolina. -
Civil War
The civil war was the bloodiest war in the nation's history, it occurred during Lincolns presidency and began with the attack on Fort Summter in April (1865-18 -
Emancipation Proclamation
The Emancipation Proclamation was a very important speech made by Abraham Lincoln. This speech freed all of the slaves in the country except for the border states. Lincoln wanted them to free their own slaves. -
13th amendment
The thirteenth amendment to the Constitution abolished slavery everywhere in the United States. -
Freedmen’s Bureau
The Freedmen’s Bureau was a government run agency that helped freed slaves find homes, jobs, and schools. -
Assassination of Abraham Lincoln
President Abraham Lincoln was shot in a theater by a confederate sympathizer, John Wilkes Booth. This made Lincoln the first president to be assassinated. Lincoln died shortly after. -
Reconstruction
Reconstruction was the time period after the civil war where a lot of rebuilding was going on in the South (1865-1877). -
Radical Reconstruction
This is the time period directly after the civil war when Radical Republicans, who wanted to punish the south, were in control of congress. They divided the south into military districts controlled by Union soldiers to protect the rights of newly freed slaves. They did not allow Confederate leaders to vote, and said that in order for any southern state to rejoin the Union they would have to ratify the 14th amendment (passed in 1867). -
14th amendment
This amendment largely expanded the protection of civil rights to all Americans and newly freed slaves. -
15th amendment
The 15th amendment stated that the right of any United States citizen to vote would not depend on race of color. The amendment was ratified on February 3rd 1870. -
1st African American elected to Congress during Reconstruction
Hiram Revels was the first African American to be elected into Congress. He served in the Senate until March 4th 1871. -
Sharecropping
Workers rent land to farm and, to pay back the land owner, they give a share of their crops to the land owner (1870s), -
Civil Rights Act of 1875
The Civil Rights Act of 1875 said that all Americans, regardless of race, had access to public facilities. Many were, restaurants theaters and public transportation.
