Abraham Lincoln

• Lincoln strong advocate for making the states untied

  • up and down

  • controlling

• loses his son

  • suffers from bipolarism

• was not always present in the white house to visit soldiers from both sides in hospitals

• wanted to resolve the conflict without war

1865 - freedman’s borough

• welcoming back state after war, along with their slaves

• lincoln’s attempt to have govt help slaves that were free

  • enrages the south

  • they do not want slaves to have rights

• one month after, lincoln is killed

13th amendment

• vp overtakes the amendment after Lincoln death

• Andrew johnson

  • has him as a representative for the southerners

  • disliked by both sides

• officially ends all forms of slavery

• KKK is formed - confederate soliders

  • if we can’t keep the slaves, they are going to scare them out

• Johnson is impeached in 1868

14th amendement - equal protection

• every single person has the same rights

15th amendement

• general grant

  • did not like slavery at all

• does not matter if you were a former slave, you are allowed to vote if of age

• southern military control

Rutherford b hayes

• bans all reconstruction

radical republicans

• group of abolitionists

• believe there is only one punishment for former slave holders - death

carpet baggers

• northerners with lots of money that moved into the south after the war and bough everything