america

• Main Causes of the civil war?

  •1850 compromise-> handed back power to the south

  •1854 Kansas Nebraska Act 1854

  •1857 Supreme Court said slaves had no rights & US Gov. coild not ban slabery in territories

  •1860 Lincols election
• What was the 1850 Compromise?

  free states had to return escaped slaves to owners
• What was the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854?

  said states could decide if they want to be free or slave states
• Points that show that Lincoln's election ultimately led to war?

  •1860 south carolina secede from USA

  • 6 other states secede and form conferancy

  • Confederancy elect Jeffersom Davis as President -> he ordered gunboats on Fort Summer 12 April

  •April-June 1861 4 more states join confederacy
• What are the 6 states that formed the confederacy in 1861?

  Mississippi

  Florida

  Alabama

  Georgia

  Louisiana

  Texas
• What 4 states joined the Confederacy in April-June 1861?

  Virginia

  Arkansas

  North Carolina

  Tensee
• In 1861 Black Americans...

  had limited rights in the North and no rights in the south.
• Housing

  North: Black Americans lived in poorer area with high rent

  South: plantation housing was small, cramped -> disease spread easily
• Jobs

  North: Black Americans could get jobs but had unequal pay, black workers could not be in charge of white workers

  South: slaves, no-jobs or earn money
• Education

  North: segregated schools, black students had access to basic info.

  South: illegal for Black Americans to learn to read/write.
• What shows that there was casual racism with signs of improvement?

  •race riots broke out in many Northern cities where white Americans were being forced to join the army -> blamed black Americans

  • 1861 black northerners tried to join army but we're not allowed

  • 1863 Black soldiers allowed to join army -> unequal pay

  •1864, black soldiers fought for and won the right for equal pay in the army
• President Reconstruction

  1865-66, President Johnson
• What were some of President Johnson's actions?

  • allowed southern states to bring in black codes -> removed rights of black americans

  • did nothing to stop the KKK from being set up in 1865

  • stopped Freedman's bureau

  • pardoned confederate soldiers & plantation owners -> returned their land, including sea islands
• What happened during the radical reconstruction?

  • Feb 1866, Freedman's Bureau re-established

  • March 1866, Civil Rights Bill

  • April 1866, 14th Amendment proposed

  • July 1868, 14th Amendment became law

  • March 1870, 15th Amendment
• Not everyone was happy with the reconstruction -> SOUTH!

  • white businesses grew very rich of the reconstruction -> contracts to build railways/factories & took most profits

  • south say it was a way for corrupt Northerners to take control of land & money in the south

  • carpetbaggers
• After 1870, radical changes for Black Americans were shut down

  • 1872, Freedman's Bureau was shut down

  • Many Black Americans worked in plantations as share croppers

  • 1873, supreme court said voting rights at state level was a choice of the state

  • 1877, US Gov. withdrew soldiers stationed in the south