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Division and Antagonism
Both the North and South sides of the country were arguing over state laws on slavery. The North said it was not needed. The South said it was needed this argument and disagreement led to war. -
The Union Blockade
President Lincoln ordered the Union blockade of Southern ports. The Union blockade was one of the most effective installations of the war. Two hundred sixty-four armed Union ships patrolled the three hundred miles of the Atlantic and Gulf coasts from Virginia to Texas. -
Gettysburg
Gettysburg was a major battle in the U.S civil war, it was one the bloodiest battles in history. The battle was the turning point the battle leading to the South surrendering. -
The End Of The Civil War
The war was coming to a close when the Union won Gettysburg three days before the war would officially end. The war ended with both sides shaking hands with the south surrendered. -
Reconstruction
Although the Civil war was good for the North and freed the slaves and created more rights for African Americans. But the war crippled the South's economy and created unbalance in the U.S political system. So the current President tried to rebuild or reconstruct the U.S backup with several acts. -
Freedmans Bureau
The people who were determined to help blacks adjust to freedom and protect their civil rights called for the creation of a department for that purpose. Oliver O. Howard, the chief of the bureau, was interested in more than the enfranchisement of black people; he was concerned about their everyday needs. Through Howard's leadership, the bureau distributed food to those in need, irrespective of color; the bureau also helped provide blacks with clothing, housing, and medicine. -
Republican Radicals
Republican Radicals, unhappy with President Johnson's Reconstruction program, thought the South should be punished.n 1867, the Radicals were able to pass the first Reconstruction Act over Johnson's veto. This act removed the Lincoln-Johnson governors already established in the provisional governments and divided all the Confederate states into five military districts. Tennessee was the only exception after ratifying the Fourteenth Amendment. -
Black Codes
When the slaves were freed, the old slave codes had to be revised. The new codes allowed blacks to swear out affidavits in criminal cases, to sue or be sued in civil courts, and to testify as witnesses during a trial. was now sanctioned marriages between blacks, and black children could go to school. The code, however, was restrictive. Blacks could not carry weapons, vote or hold public office, or meet in large groups. southerners saw the new codes as a way to retain their former labor -
President Lincoln Assassination
Lincoln was the 16th president, he was the president during the Civil war and who also freed the slaves. He went to Ford's Theatre with his family and was shot and killed that day by John Wilkes Booth. -
President Johnson
After Lincoln's death, Andrew Johnson, the new President, retained Lincoln's cabinet and planned to follow Lincoln's Reconstruction policy. Congress and President Johnson, a previous slave owner and the only senator who had refused to secede with his state.