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Election of Abraham Lincoln
Lincoln was elected for president over a deeply divided democratic party. He was the republican candidate in 1860. His criticisms of slavery made him popular in the north, but not so popular in the south, since they had more land to farm which required more work from slaves. -
Secession of the Southern States
After Abraham Lincoln became president he wanted to abolish slavery. The southern states wanted to keep slavery because they had lots of land, which required more work. South Carolina was the first southern state to secede from the union. -
Civil War
The civil war began when more and more southern states started to secede from the union, because of the disagreement over slavery. Abraham Lincoln wanted to bring the nation back together. -
Emancipation Proclamation
The Emancipation Proclamation was issued by Abraham Lincoln, it declared "that all persons held as slaves" within rebellious states "are, and henceforward shall be free." Lincoln was trying to allow all slaves in the south to be free. -
Assassination of Abraham Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln was shot by John Wilkes Booth. Lincoln was in his box at ford's Theater in Washington during his death. -
Freedmen's Bureau
Freedman's Bureau was a U.S. federal government agency established to aid freedmen (free slaves) in the south during the reconstruction era of the United States. -
13th amendment
The 13th amendment declared that "neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as punishment for crime whereof the party shall be duly convicted, shall exist within the United States." this amendment was trying to ban all slavery in the United states unless it was for punishment." -
Reconstruction
Following the Civil War, was a period of rebuilding the United States. They had to rebuild all of the damage done during the American Civil war. -
Radical Reconstruction
After northern voters rejected Johnson's policies in the congressional elections, republicans in congress took hold of Reconstruction in the south. -
14th amendment
The 14th amendment granted citizenship to "all persons born or naturalized in the United states", which included former slaves recently freed. -
15th amendment
The 15th amendment granted African american men the right to vote. -
1st African American elected to congress
Hiram Rhodes Revels, of Mississippi, was seated as the first African American member of the senate. -
sharecropping
sharecropping is a system of agriculture in which the landowner allows the tenant to use the land in return for a share of the crops produced on their part of the land. -
Civil Rights Act of 1875
The civil rights act was a United States federal law enacted during the reconstruction era to guarantee African Americans equal treatments in public.
