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Election of Abraham Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln was running an anti-slavery campaign. -
Secession of southern states
The southern states seceded because when Abraham Lincoln became president,he wanted to get rid of slavery,and the south held slavery. -
Civil war
The civil war occurred when the north was head to head with the south about slavery because Abraham was trying to abolish slavery. -
Emancipation Proclamation
The Emancipation Proclamation was the way to abolish slavery in the United states.It also preserved the union and freed slaves. -
13th Ammendment
The 13th Amendment, passed by Congress January 31, 1865, and ratified December 6, 1865, states: 1. 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 -
Assassination of Abraham Lincoln
After John Wilkes Booth assassinated Abraham Lincoln,confederate armies collapsed across the south,and Richmond fell to union forces. -
Freedman's Bureau
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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 (freed slaves) in the South during the Reconstruction era of the United States. -
Reconstruction
It was the period of time when people were reconstructing the U.S.
Reconstruction refers to the period following the Civil War of rebuilding the United States. It was a time of great pain and endless questions. -
14th Amendment
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In 1868, the 14th Amendment to the Constitution of the United States granted citizenship and equal civil and legal rights to African Americans and slaves who had been emancipated after the American Civil War, including them under the umbrella phrase “all persons born or naturalized in the United States. -
Radical Reconstruction
The period after the Civil War, 1865 - 1877, was called the Reconstruction period. Abraham Lincoln started planning for the reconstruction of the South during the Civil War as Union soldiers occupied huge areas of the South. -
Sharecropping
Sharecropping is 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. -
1st African american elected
Black Americans in Congress. Since 1870, when Senator Hiram Revels of Mississippi and Representative Joseph Rainey of South Carolina became the first African Americans to serve in Congress, a total of 146 African Americans have served as U.S. -
15th Amendment
15th Amendment. The 15th Amendment to the Constitution of the United States, ratified in 1870, prohibits federal or state governments from infringing on a citizen's right to vote "on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude. -
Civil Rights 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
