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The Civil war and Reconstruction

  • uncle Toms Cabin

    uncle Toms Cabin

    book by Harriet Beecher Stove
    Portatrayed the evils of slavery
  • Dred Scot case

    Dred Scot case

    A slave named dred scot sued for freedom after being taken into free territory by his owner.
  • Election of 1860

    Election of 1860

    Main issues: slavery
    abraham Lincoln , a Republicans won
  • Battle of fort sumter

    Battle of fort sumter

    Fort sumter was in south Carolina but it remained under union (northern) contol.
    Confederate fired on union ships that were there to resupply Fort Sumter
    was the first battle
  • Battle of antietam

    Battle of antietam

    Lee went north and lost at Antietam ,MD. Main effects , Lincoln issused the emanicpation Proclamation.
  • Emanicpation Proclamation

    Emanicpation Proclamation

    Freed slaves in the 'rebelling'' states
  • Battle of Vicksburg

    Battle of Vicksburg

    Mississippi and Grant win. This cut confedracy in half
  • Battle of Gettysburg

    Battle of Gettysburg

    Lee pushed North into Pennysylvania
    3 day battle
    Lee had to retreat
  • Gettysburg Address

    Gettysburg Address

    Short speech by Lincoln and dedicating Cemetery
  • 13th Amendment

    13th Amendment

    Abolished Slavery
  • Appomattox Court house

    Appomattox Court house

    Lee urged southerns to accept surrender and unite as america
    Lee surrender
  • Lincoln Assaination

    Lincoln Assaination

    shortly after the war and killed by john Wilkes Booth
  • Reconstruction

    Reconstruction

    Restoring southern states to the union and determining the position of African Americans.
  • Reconstruction of 1867

    Reconstruction of 1867

    Put south under Military Occupation
  • 14th Amendment

    14th Amendment

    prohibted states from denying equal rights to any american
  • 15th Amendments

    15th Amendments

    voting rights for African Americans
  • Election of 1867

    Election of 1867

    Republican- Rutherford B. Hayes
    Democract-Samuel J Tidlen
    Disputes election Results
  • Jim Crow Laws

    Jim Crow Laws

    Established seperate facalities for white and black
    school, train cars, etc.
    Black facilities were inferior
  • Plessy vs Ferguson 1896

    Plessy vs Ferguson 1896

    S.C. said Seperate but equal did not violate the 14th Amendment
    upheld jim Crows laws of Segeration