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Election Of Abraham Lincoln
The election of Lincoln was the event that caused South Carolina and ten other Southern states to secede from union. Many people were happy about the election of Lincoln and many people were angry because Lincoln was an abolitionist which meant he was a person against slavery. -
secession of Southern states
The secession of southern states began in December of 1860 and extended through June 8 of the next year when eleven states in the Lower and Upper South severed their ties with the union. The first seven seceding states of the Lower South set up a provisional government in Alabama. This event tore the country into 2 the union and confedracy. -
civil war
The american civil war was americas bloodiest war.It was the Union against the Confederate States of America and resulted in the death of more than 620,000, with millions more injured. There was many big battles of this war that are remembered today as long as generals and leaders like Ulyssas Grant. -
emancipation proclamation
On September 22, soon after the Union victory at Antietam, he issued a preliminary Emancipation Proclamation, declaring that as of January 1, 1863, all slaves in the rebellious states “shall be then, thenceforward, and forever free.” While the Emancipation Proclamation did not free a single slave, it was an important turning point in the war, transforming the fight to preserve the nation into a battle for human freedom. -
Freedmen's Burea
Freedmen’s Bureau, was established in 1865 by Congress to help former black slaves and poor whites in the South in the aftermath of the U.S. Civil War. The Freedmen’s Bureau provided food, housing and medical aid, established schools and offered legal assistance. In 1872, Congress, in part under pressure from white Southerners, shut the bureau. -
Assassination Of Abraham Lincoln
On April 14, 1865, John Wilkes Booth, a famous actor and southerner, shot President Abraham Lincoln at a play at Ford’s Theatre in Washington, D.C. The attack came days after Confederate General Robert E. Lee surrendered his massive army at Appomattox Court House, Virginia, ending the American Civil War. -
reconstruction
Reconstruction refers to the period following the Civil War of rebuilding the United States. It was a time of questions. The union victory of the civil war, gave 4 million slaves their freedom but rebuilding the south in the reconstruction era was a set of totally new difficult challenges. -
sharecropping
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. after the war Conflict arose between many white landowners attempting to reestablish a labor force and freed blacks seeking independence. Therfor they used a system called -
13th amendment
The 13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution officially abolished slavery in America, and was ratified on December 6, 1865. The amendment states: “Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.” -
radical reconstruction
After northern voters rejected Johnson’s policies in the congressional elections in late 1866, Republicans in Congress took firm hold of Reconstruction in the South. Congress passed the Reconstruction Act of 1867, which temporarily divided the South into five military districts and outlined how governments based on universal (male) suffrage were to be organized. The law also required southern states to ratify the 14th Amendment, In February 1869, Congress approved the 15th Amendment -
14th amendment
the 14th Amendment, which had been passed by Congress in 1866, ratified in July 1868. The amendment resolved pre-Civil War questions of African American citizenship by stating that “all persons born or naturalized in the United States…are citizens of the United States and of the state in which they reside.” The amendment then reaffirmed the privileges and rights of all citizens, and granted all these citizens the “equal protection of the laws.” -
15th amendment
The 15th Amendment to the Constitution granted African American men the right to vote by declaring that the "right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude." -
1st African american elected to congress
The U.S changed from the civil war with tons of slavery to african american's being able to be apart of the government.During Reconstruction, only the state legislature of Mississippi elected any black senators. On February 25, 1870, Hiram Rhodes Revels was seated as the first black member of the Senate. A total of 146 African Americans have served as U.S. Representatives, Delegates, or Senators. -
civil rights act of 1875
The Civil Rights Act of 1875 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.
