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Rhode island
Becomes the first of the original Thirteen Colonies to introduce anti-slavery laws that would accentuate the divide between Northern and Southern states. -
Declaration of independence
Thomas Jefferson draws up the Declaration of Independence to assert the sovereign rights of the American colonists. -
15th amendment
the right to vote shall not be denied on account of race, -
Cotton Gin
Eli Whitney’s invention revolutionises cotton production in the South, eventually leading to cotton succeeding tobacco. -
Andrew Johnson
military commands,andrew refused to uphold constitution -
california gold rush
California becomes a U.S. state and California Genocide -
John browns raid
inspired by dred scott, brown plans to lead a salve revolt -
Abraham Lincoln
a man who was the president -
South Carolina
Followed within two months by Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana and Texas. -
Jefferson Davis
the first President of the Confederate States of America at Montgomery, Alabama, a position he will hold until elections can be arranged. -
Battle of bull run
in washington dc happens 25 miles from there -
carpetbaggers
northerners who moved to the south -
General Simon
enters into terms for surrender of the Army of the Trans-Mississippi, which are agreed to on June 2, 1865.The Civil War officially ends. -
radical reconstruction
A faction of American politicians within the Republican Party of the United States -
southern democrats
regain power -
compromise of 1877
took another turn with democrats -
the new south
pre civil war agriculture was gone forever.
built 40000 miles of rr tracks -
sharecroppers
giving up part of your crops as payment -
traps african americans in debt
forced labor,civil war ends slavery -
panic of 1873
set off a full on depression
