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Constitution Ratified
First congress adopted 12 Amendment to us constitution. The bill of rights sent them to states to be ratification by the last original colonies. -
Dred Scott Decision
Before the civil that on March 6,1857 the supreme court ruled that a slave- Dred Scott who lived in a free. NO slavery state and territory could not be a citizen of the United States. This decision pushed the county closer to the cicvl war. -
Emancipation Proclamation
The emancipation Proclamation was distributed issued on January 1,1863 after the 3rd year of civil war.It said declared.That all persons help as slaves with in the rebellious states are and hence for ward shall be free. -
Civil war ends Lincoln Assassination
Five days after the civil war ended on April 14,1865 Abraham and to a play at ford's theater in washing D.C. John Wilkes booth an actor in the play shot him in the back of the head. -
13th Amendment
The civil right act (1866) was passed by congress on 9th April 1866 over the veto of president Andrew Johnson. The act declared that all persons born in the united states were now citizens, with out regard to race, color, or previous condition. -
14th Amendment
On July 28,1868 the 14th Amendment to the united states constitution was ratified. The amendment grants citizenship to all persons born or naturalized in the united states which included former slaves who had just been freed after the civil war. -
15th Amendment
The 15th Amendment to the constitution granted African American men the right to vote by endearing that the right of citizens of united states to vote shall not be denied or by any state on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude. -
Reconstruction Ends
With the compromise, the Republicans had quietly given up their fight for racial equality and blacks' rights in the south. In 1877, Hayes withdrew the last federal troops from the south, and the bayonet-backed Republican governments collapsed, thereby ending Reconstruction. ... You just finished The End of Reconstruction.
