Post Civil War A-B

Civil War Results

• After 4 years of fighting 1.5 million casualties (600k deaths)

• North Union defeated the South (confederate)

13th Amendment

• Abolished slavery, freeing 4 million people

(13th Amendment) Problems

• Not enough new jobs, doctors, resources, for the newly freed people

1. Lincoln was assassinated

2. Former enslaved people needed right and protection

3. Need for jobs, homes, schools education

4. How to merge the confederate into the union

Reconstruction (1865-1877)

• Period of time in the US after the Civil War of rebuilding the cities, government, and economy in the south with the goal of having formerly enslaved people gain their rights

The North occupied…

• The South, setting up military districts to keep control/order

Freedman's Bureau (1865)

• Organization set up to help enslaved people get homes, jobs, education, etc.

Civil Rights Act of 1866

• All men born in the US are considered citizens

14th Amendment

• Gave all people equal protection under the law

Radical Republicans

• Politicians from the North who wanted revenge to punish them for slavery & the Cilvil War

Thaddeus Stevens (PA) & Charles Sumner (MA)

• Leaders of the Radicals, out spoken about the south and equal rights

2,000 African Americans…

Had some type of government/political job

-16 of them had Congressional Positions

Hiram Revels, Mississippi

First African American Senator

-Union Army Minister

Joseph Rainey

First African American elected to the House of Representatives

-Former Slave

Jim Crow Laws

• Segregation laws in the South that vary by state put in place to prevent African Americans from having rights

KKK & Other Terrorist Groups

• Would intimidate, kill, and harass African Americans