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Emancipation Proclamation
On 1st January 1863 Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation - a declaration that all slaves in the Confederate States were to be made free. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xFCphy1BXkM -
13th Amendment passed
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Civil War ends
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Lincoln assassinated & Johnson inaugurated
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First Black Codes passed in Mississippi
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Freedman's Bureau Bill, passed by Congress
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Freedman's Bureau Bill, vetoed by President Johnson
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Civil rights bill voted by Congress
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Civil Rights Bill vetoed by President Johnson
"To the Senate of the United States:
I regret that the bill, which has passed both Houses of Congress, entitled contains provisions which I can not approve consistently with my sense of duty to the whole people and my obligations to the Constitution of the United States. I am therefore constrained to return it to the Senate, the House in which it originated, with my objections to its becoming a law" -
Civil Rights Act, 1866
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14th Amendment to the Constitution
