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Emancipation proclamation

bfuchs — 2013-11-01 17:26:32 UTC

Confederate states of America

bfuchs — 2013-11-01 17:27:12 UTC

Bleeding Kansas- this was used to described the period of

Violence during the settling of the Kansas territory

Slavery

elnewman — 2013-11-01 18:19:10 UTC

By Elijah Newman and Brett Fuchs

Frederick Douglas

bfuchs — 2013-11-03 15:17:17 UTC

He was a slave that learned how to read and write from his owners wife. He got a skilled job as a caulker for ships.

Abraham Lincoln

bfuchs — 2013-11-04 14:26:21 UTC

Wrote the emancipation proclamation. .

Harriet Tubman

bfuchs — 2013-11-04 14:26:45 UTC

Help runaway slaves in the underground railway

Ku Klux Klan

bfuchs — 2013-11-04 16:53:07 UTC

In 1866, the Ku Klux Klan (KKK) was founded. By 1870, the KKK had extended into most of the states in the South, and was the main form of resistance to the Republican Party's Reconstruction-era policy that was trying to establish political and economic equality for blacks. The KKK carried on an underground campaign (directed at white and black Republican leaders) of intimidation and violence. Congress passed legislation that was meant to stop the KKK terrorism, but the Klan fulfilled its primary goal of reestablishing white supremacy through Democratic victories in the state legislature throughout the South in 1870s. Eventually, the KKK started to dismember, but the Protestant nativist revived it in the early 20th century by staging rallies, burning crosses, parades, and marches denouncing immigrants, blacks, Jews, Catholics, and organized labor. During the civil rights movement in the 1960s, there was a powerful surge of KKK activity that included violence against black and white activists in the South, and bombing of black schools and churches.

Slavery in America

bfuchs — 2013-11-04 16:57:13 UTC

In 1619, the first African slaves were brought to the colony of Jamestown, Virginia. They helped the production of tobacco. The slaves helped build foundations of the new nation, and was continually practiced throughout the 17th and 18th centuries. In 1793, the cotton gin was invented by Eli Whitney, and made the need for slaves less necessary. By the mid-19th century, the nation was torn apart in the American Civil War (1861-65) because of the great debate that was provoked by the expansion of the west, and the growing abolition movement in the North. The legacy of slavery continued to influence American history, through the rough years of Reconstruction (1865-77) to the civil rights movement that came about in the 1960s, even though the Union victory freed the 4 million slaves.

Black Codes

bfuchs — 2013-11-04 16:58:39 UTC

During the Reconstruction era (1865-77), the African Americans faced new injustices been though the Union victory gave 4 million slaves their freedom. The question of the freedom of blacks was still unresolved, in late 1865, after the 13th Amendment officially outlawed slavery. White southerners reestablishing civil authority in the old Confederate states, in 1865 and 1866 because of the lenient policies of Reconstruction made by President Andrew Johnson. That's when a series of restrictive laws known as the "black codes" were created. They were made to restrict freed slave activity, and, since slavery was abolished, ensured their availability as a labor force. Many states forced the freed blacks to sing annual labor contracts that, if they refused to sign, suffered the risk of being arrested and fined or forced into labor that didn't pay. By the late 1866, control over Reconstruction shifted to the wackier wing of the Republican Party in Congress.