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Constitution Ratified
The constitution was created in 1887. It got approved in Massachusetts on June 21, 1788. It established America's national government and fundamental laws and guaranteed the rights for the citizens. -
Dred Scott Decision
Dred Scott was a slave who was owned by John Emerson of Missouri. He lived in Missouri which wasn't free from slavery to Illinois which was a free state but Emerson still wanted Scott to be his slave. 1846 where Scott got some help from antislavery lawyers. Scott and his wife Harriet filed some cases to the Missouri state court asking for their freedom in a free state. The case so long to process but eventually, they court decided to set Scott and his wife free. -
Emancipation Proclamation
President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation on January 1, 1863. He was making the southern states that were separated from the United States free their slaves to win and end the war by making the blacks move to the north and help him fight against the south. Although the slaves weren't set completely free, Lincoln still won the war against the south. -
Civil War Ends - Lincoln Assassination
The Civil War ended on April 14, 1865. Abraham got shot by John Wilkes Booth who was an actor in the play Abraham went to in Washington D.C.
https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/news-photo/assassination-of-president-abraham-lincoln-by-john-wilkes-news-photo/629438153#assassination-of-president-abraham-lincoln-by-john-wilkes-booth-picture-id629438153 -
14th Amendment
Defining national citizenship and forbidding the states to restrict the basic rights of citizens or other persons. https://www.pinterest.com/explore/the-14th-amendment/?lp=true -
15th Amendment
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."
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Reconstruction Ends
Heyes took away the last federal troops from the south, the troops had the Republican Government back and then they left and the government collapsed which ended the Reconstruction. Over the next three decades, the civil rights that blacks had been promised during Reconstruction crumbled under white rule in the south.
https://www.historyonthenet.com/authentichistory/1865-1897/1-reconstruction/4-1876election/
