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abraham Lincoln assassination april 15th 1865

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abraham Lincoln assassination april 15th 1865

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Andrew Johnson becomes president April 15th 1865

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Andrew Johnson becomes president April 15th 1865

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March 2, 1867 - March 11, 1868 Reconstruction Acts of 1867

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March 2, 1867 - March 11, 1868 Reconstruction Acts of 1867

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June 1870 Treaty of Annexation of Santo Domingo 

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June 1870 Treaty of Annexation of Santo Domingo 

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July 28, 1868 14th Amendment is ratified 

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July 28, 1868 14th Amendment is ratified 

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Winter 1868: Southern Constitutional Conventions including freedman 

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Winter 1868: Southern Constitutional Conventions including freedman 

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February 3, 1870 15th Amendment is ratified 

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February 3, 1870 15th Amendment is ratified 

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1875 Mississippi Plan or “Shotgun Policy”

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1875 Mississippi Plan or “Shotgun Policy”

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you'll learn more about the Freedmen's Bureau, Abraham Lincoln assassination, Andrew Johnson becoming president, the 13th Amendment being ratified, and many more

The 13th amendment, which formally abolished slavery in the United States, passed the Senate on April 8, 1864, and the House on January 31, 1865. On February 1, 1865, President Abraham Lincoln approved the Joint Resolution of Congress submitting the proposed amendment to the state legislatures. The necessary number of states ratified it by December 6, 1865. The 13th amendment to the United States Constitution provides that "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."

In 1863 President Lincoln had issued the Emancipation Proclamation which declared "all persons held as slaves within any State, or designated part of a State, the people whereof shall then be in rebellion against the United States, shall be then, thenceforward, and forever free." Nonetheless, the Emancipation Proclamation did not end slavery in the nation. Lincoln recognized that the Emancipation Proclamation would have to be followed by a constitutional amendment in order to guarantee the abolishment of slavery.

The 13th amendment was passed at the end of the Civil War before the Southern states had been restored to the Union and should have easily passed the Congress.

For more information about the Klan and who've they killed please visit this site.

the Reconstruction Acts of 1867, which enacted the plan that became known as Radical. These laws included the following.

-The South was divided into five military districts and governed by military governors until acceptable state constitutions could be written and approved by Congress.

- All males, regardless of race, but excluding former Confederate leaders, were permitted to participate in the constitutional conventions that formed the new governments in each state.

- New state constitutions were required to provide for universal manhood suffrage (voting rights for all men) without regard to race.

- States were required to ratify the Fourteenth Amendment in order to be readmitted to the Union.

In 1875, The Mississippi Plan went into effect. Their state government was trying to prevent Black political participation using this Strategy. Plan was made by the white-American Democratic Party to overthrow the Republican Party through violence the White Man's party sent armed patrols to prevent blacks from voting and succeeded in defeating all Republican city officials in August. By December the emboldened party forced the Black sheriff to flee to the state capitol. Blacks who rallied to the city to aid the sheriff also had to flee against superior force. Over the next few days, armed gangs may have murdered up to 300 Blacks in the city's vicinity. President Ulysses S. Grant sent a company of troops to the city in January to quell the violence and allow the sheriff's safe return.

In 1875, under the Mississippi Plan of Southern Democrats, a political dual-pronged battle to reverse the otherwise dominant Republican trend was waged. The first step was to "persuade" the 10 to 15 percent of white voters still calling themselves Republicans to switch to the Democratic party. A combined fear of social, political and economic ostracism convinced carpetbaggers to switch parties or flee the state.

The second step of the Mississippi Plan was intimidation of the Black populace who had so recently been granted their voting rights. While economic coercion against black sharecroppers was employed to some limited success, it was violence that played the largest part in intimidation. Groups of Democrats, called "rifle clubs," frequently provoked riots at Republican rallies, shooting down dozens of blacks in the ensuing conflict.

The Compromise of 1877 was an unwritten deal, that settled the dispute of the 1876 U.S. presidential election. It resulted in the United States federal government pulling the last soldiers out of the South, and ending the Reconstruction Era. Through the Compromise, the republican Rutherford B. Hayes was given the White House over Democrat Samuel J. Tilden on the understanding that Hayes would remove the federal troops whose support was essential for the survival of Republican state governments in South Carolina, Florida and Louisiana. The compromise involved Democrats who controlled the House of Representatives allowing the decision of the Electoral Commission to take effect. The outgoing president, Republican Ulysses S. Grant, removed the soldiers from Florida. As president, Hayes removed the remaining troops from South Carolina and Louisiana. As soon as the troops left, many white Republicans also left, and the " Redeemer" Democrats took control. They already dominated other state governments in the South. What was exactly agreed is somewhat contested as the documentation is insufficient.

Black Republicans felt betrayed as they lost power and were subject to discrimination and harassment to suppress their voting. By 1905, most black men were effectively disenfranchised by state legislatures in every Southern state

The 13th amendment, which formally abolished slavery in the United States, passed the Senate on April 8, 1864, and the House on January 31, 1865. On February 1, 1865, President Abraham Lincoln approved the Joint Resolution of Congress submitting the proposed amendment to the state legislatures. The necessary number of states ratified it by December 6, 1865. The 13th amendment to the United States Constitution provides that "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."

In 1863 President Lincoln had issued the Emancipation Proclamation which declared "all persons held as slaves within any State, or designated part of a State, the people whereof shall then be in rebellion against the United States, shall be then, thenceforward, and forever free." Nonetheless, the Emancipation Proclamation did not end slavery in the nation. Lincoln recognized that the Emancipation Proclamation would have to be followed by a constitutional amendment in order to guarantee the abolishment of slavery.

The 13th amendment was passed at the end of the Civil War before the Southern states had been restored to the Union and should have easily passed the Congress.

For more information about the Klan and who've they killed please visit this site.

the Reconstruction Acts of 1867, which enacted the plan that became known as Radical. These laws included the following.

-The South was divided into five military districts and governed by military governors until acceptable state constitutions could be written and approved by Congress.

- All males, regardless of race, but excluding former Confederate leaders, were permitted to participate in the constitutional conventions that formed the new governments in each state.

- New state constitutions were required to provide for universal manhood suffrage (voting rights for all men) without regard to race.

- States were required to ratify the Fourteenth Amendment in order to be readmitted to the Union.

In 1875, The Mississippi Plan went into effect. Their state government was trying to prevent Black political participation using this Strategy. Plan was made by the white-American Democratic Party to overthrow the Republican Party through violence the White Man's party sent armed patrols to prevent blacks from voting and succeeded in defeating all Republican city officials in August. By December the emboldened party forced the Black sheriff to flee to the state capitol. Blacks who rallied to the city to aid the sheriff also had to flee against superior force. Over the next few days, armed gangs may have murdered up to 300 Blacks in the city's vicinity. President Ulysses S. Grant sent a company of troops to the city in January to quell the violence and allow the sheriff's safe return.

In 1875, under the Mississippi Plan of Southern Democrats, a political dual-pronged battle to reverse the otherwise dominant Republican trend was waged. The first step was to "persuade" the 10 to 15 percent of white voters still calling themselves Republicans to switch to the Democratic party. A combined fear of social, political and economic ostracism convinced carpetbaggers to switch parties or flee the state.

The second step of the Mississippi Plan was intimidation of the Black populace who had so recently been granted their voting rights. While economic coercion against black sharecroppers was employed to some limited success, it was violence that played the largest part in intimidation. Groups of Democrats, called "rifle clubs," frequently provoked riots at Republican rallies, shooting down dozens of blacks in the ensuing conflict.

The Compromise of 1877 was an unwritten deal, that settled the dispute of the 1876 U.S. presidential election. It resulted in the United States federal government pulling the last soldiers out of the South, and ending the Reconstruction Era. Through the Compromise, the republican Rutherford B. Hayes was given the White House over Democrat Samuel J. Tilden on the understanding that Hayes would remove the federal troops whose support was essential for the survival of Republican state governments in South Carolina, Florida and Louisiana. The compromise involved Democrats who controlled the House of Representatives allowing the decision of the Electoral Commission to take effect. The outgoing president, Republican Ulysses S. Grant, removed the soldiers from Florida. As president, Hayes removed the remaining troops from South Carolina and Louisiana. As soon as the troops left, many white Republicans also left, and the " Redeemer" Democrats took control. They already dominated other state governments in the South. What was exactly agreed is somewhat contested as the documentation is insufficient.

Black Republicans felt betrayed as they lost power and were subject to discrimination and harassment to suppress their voting. By 1905, most black men were effectively disenfranchised by state legislatures in every Southern state

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you'll learn more about the Freedmen's Bureau, Abraham Lincoln assassination, Andrew Johnson becoming president, the 13th Amendment being ratified, and many more The Freedmen's Bureau was established in 1865 by congress to be an aid to the newly freed slaves. when the bureau started it had little to no funds the workers were poorly trained.

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After the 1876 election Compromise of 1877

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After the 1876 election Compromise of 1877