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Secession of southern stats
The stats was South Carolina,Georgia,Florida,Alabama,Mississippi,Texas,Louisiana. Later Virginia,Arkansas,North Carolina,and Tennessee joined. -
Civil war
The Civil War is the central event in America's historical consciousness. -
Election of Abraham Lincoln
The candidates in 1860 was Abraham,Stephen,John Bell,John -
Emancipation Proclamation
The Emancipation Proclamation was a presidential proclamation and executive order issued by President Abraham Lincoln on January 1, 1863. -
13th Amendment
the Constitution declared that "Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction. -
Freedmen's Bureau
Congress to help former black slaves and poor whites in the South in the aftermath of the U.S. Civil War -
Assassination of Abraham Lincoln
Ford's Theater. -
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
granted citizenship to “all persons born or naturalized in the United States,” which included former slaves recently freed. -
Sharecropping
A system of agriculture in which a landowner allows a tenant to use the land in return for a share of the crops produced on their portion of land. -
15th Amendment
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." -
1st African American elected to congress during reconstruction
he state legislature of Mississippi elected any black senators -
Civil Rights act of 1875
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. -
Reconstruction
Reconstruction refers to the period following the Civil War of rebuilding the United States. It was a time of great pain and endless questions.
