HIS 162 -TO1 U.S History 2 (Lectures 1 and 2)

Emancipation proclamation

 passed  January 1st 1863 says that people in confederate states who are healed in enslavement shall be free 

• Only affects the people in the confederate states

• Doesn’t free  people  missouri kentucky maryland and delaware

13 Amendment

• abolished slavery in the US

14th Amendent

•  gives black men citizenship

15th Amendment

gives blacks the opptunity to vote

what are Black Codes

• REINFORIED SLAVERY WITHOUT ACTUAL SLAVERY 

what are examples of black codes

curfews

vagrancy laws

labor contracts

women’s rights limits

land restrictions

Freedmen's Bureau

• schools, that gave  aid to the poor and elderly, care for sick, settle disputes, secure equal treatments from the courts 

Hiram revels

• freeman from NC, well educated , army chaplain, senator of Mississippi in 1870 

Pinckney Pinchback

 first black man to serve as Governor, served for Louisiana, mulatto , 1870 - elected lieutenant general → 1872 takes over the governorship 

reconstruction acts

split  confederacy into 5 military districts controlled by the military went down to the south controlled with violence  

who gave black Opportunities people new after slavery

freeman’s bureau

what lead to bi- racial comities

Confederate states that wanted to be back in in the USA had to ratify the new laws 

Robert Elliot

 Symbolizes the rise of Black political leadership during Reconstruction and the fight to secure tangible rights for freedpeople  

what are bi-racial committees

white and black americans working together in congress 

Juneteenth -

remembrance of the day that slaves were freed in Texas ( last group of slaves to find out they were free)

Sharecropping -

slaves return to plantations and lease land from ex slave masters -  (a farmer works someone else’s land and pays the landowner with a portion of the crops instead of money).

• Ku Klux Klan -

• most well know domestic terrorist of their time , target freed men, women, and white allies through violence 

• Segregation

• - diving groups of people by race

 how did white southerners attempt to recreate the hierarchical society lived in prior to emancipation ? 

 1. Implicit submission

2. violence/fear

3. illiteracy/poor education

4. political disenfranchisement

5. poll tax

6. economic dependence

7. legal distinction

8. Pride / entitlement + lack of responsibility + Plessy v. Ferguson (1896)

illiteracy/poor education

slaves were not  taught their rights , 

Political disenfranchisement

 keeping a people from voting on elected officials (ex: blacks being given literacy tests to vote) 

Economic dependence

car for black passengers and car for white passengers, case that challenges the 14th amendment homer plessy, - very wealthy man , lived his life as a white man after emancipation was seen as a black man ( Mixed man) , = SEPARATE BUT EQUAL  , → solidifies racism 

implicit submission

1896 Plessy vs Fergerson+Lack of responsibility to case +pride/entitlement

car for black passengers and car for white passengers, case that challenges the 14th amendment homer plessy, - very wealthy man , lived his life as a white man after emancipation was seen as a black man ( Mixed man) , = SEPARATE BUT EQUAL  , → solidifies racism 

violence/fear

legal distinction