Tate Wasson's Civil War Timeline

By Tate Wasson

  • Black Codes

    Black Codes
    The Black Codes were laws in the South, aimed at freed African Americans that they can still be used by white owners for work. It is racist and unfair in many ways, one for example, is they are still enforcing the African Americans and not whites to do their work. Another example, is the fact that they are freed due to the Emancipation Proclomation but yet, there are still laws against them in the South. My last example is that African Americans are forced to do work based on racist Confederates

  • Civil Rights Act of 1866

    Civil Rights Act of 1866
    The Civil Rights Act is passed through the government to ensure eveyone is protected by the law. This law is directed to African Americans at the time, to make sure they are as equal to any other person living in the United States. Everyone is equal no matter their skin color, what they look like, and or where they come from. In another relation to race, African Americans were viewed as non-equal compared to the whites, even though the African Americans did nothing to anyone.

  • Reconstruction Acts

    Reconstruction Acts
    Congress passend a law on March 2, 1867 called the Reconstruction Acts. It requires each state to have its own government. It could let African Americans for the first time help vote for there states government and federal government. Africans Americans should have always been allowed to vote because everyone is equal. Southerners did not agree with the fact that African Americans could vote.

  • 14th Admendment

    14th Admendment
    The 14th Admendment was in process mon July 9, 1868. It claims that if you were not born in the United States, you were not a citizen of it. It relates to race because if you were a slave who lived through the civil war, you could not be a citizen which was unfair to them. They were captured from there home and taken for slavery, add to that by you cannot decide what you can do in the country which you live in a new home is not fair.

  • 15th Amendment

    15th Amendment
    The 15th Amendment was ratified on February 3, 1870. It assured that any government could not deny a person any male that wanted to vote for a say in there territory. It did not deny anyone to vote if they are any race, color, or where they are from in the country. This had finally made African Americans a vote and say in the country that they were taken too.