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Election of Abraham Lincoln
On this date Abraham Lincoln was elected presindent of the United States. He was the president in one of the worest times. It was during the Civil War. He stoped slavery and then someone assainated by someone in the south. -
Succession of Abraham Lincoln
Succeion is where a person comes into office after the one who was in it before -
Emancipation Proclamation
It freed all slaves in areas rebelling aganist the Union. It did not free any slaves, but made the Civil War about slaves. -
13th Amendment
Slavery was banned for all states. -
The formation of the Ku Klux Klan
The KKK was a group started by Confederate Soldiers who thought the blacks should not have any rights, so they started the group to try to kill all of the blacks. They are still around today. -
14th Amendment
If you are born in the United States you are a citizen. -
15th Amendment
You have the right to vote no matter what race or color. -
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Civil Right Cases 1883
It was to elimated private segragation. The Federal Government had the authority to protect citizens from private and State actions that deprived them of their rights. -
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Jim Crow Laws
This was the start of when the blacks were treated diffent from the whites. They could not go in to some buildings the whites could or go to the same school.
