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Election of Abraham Lincoln
In 1860's Lincoln won the election debate he was against Douglas. The Southern States did not approve of Lincoln being President so they made their own colony The Confederacy States. -
Secession of South States
South Carolina was The first State to be in the Confederacy. -
Emancipation Proclamation
The Emancipation Proclamation was a document that president Lincoln issued on January 1,1863 -
Freedmen's Bureau
The Bureau was a place that had food, housing and medical aid its like a homeless shelter but in the past. -
Assassination of Abraham Lincoln
President Lincoln was shot at The Petersen House, Washington D.C on April 15,1865. -
Civil War
The Civil War was one of the bloodiest wars in history. The war was through 1861-1865.The Union and the Confederacy were the one fighting. There was more than 620,000 injured and killed during this war. -
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. -
13th Amendment
December 6,1865 the 13th Amendment was ratified to abolish slavery after the conclusion of the American Civil war. -
14th Amendment
In 1868 The 14th Amendment said that all black slaves have protection and rights. -
Radial Reconstuction
Radial Republicans said that the blacks should have the same right as the whites. And believe that the Confederacy leaders should be punished -
15th Amendment
The 15th Amendment states that the government cannot deny a person by race, color and previous slave conditions. -
1st African American elected to Congress during Reconstruction
The first elected African American were the republicans. They were elected during the Reconstruction Era -
Civil Rights of 1875
The Civil Rights Act of 1875 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. -
Reconstruction
1865-1877 was the time when people were reconstructing their homes and buildings after the civil war. The entire country was re building every thing
