Transcript 15 th Amendment - Westside Global Awareness Magnet

U.S Civil War
Kristalyn Lima
Before The War
North
South
-There were 22 Northern states
during the years of 1860 and 1861
-There were 11 Southern states
during the years of 1860 and 1861
-The North didn’t want slavery
-South wanted slavery mostly for
Farming
-The North manufactured many items
-They wanted to be one whole nation
-The North had more people
-The slaves did most work on the
large farms
-The South wanted to be its own
nation
-The thing they did the most in the
South was farming
1860
-May 18, 1860, Abraham Lincoln is selected as the U.S.
presidential candidate for the Republican Party
-As the nation headed toward the election of 1860, the issue
Of slavery had raised sectional tensions to the breaking point
-On November 6, 1860 ,Lincoln is elected president
-On December 20, 1860, South Carolina became the first state
To secede
-In 1860, the Republicans delegates met in Chicago at a
Convention hall known as the Wigwam
1861
-At 4:30 a.m. on April 12, 1861, shore
guns opened fire on the island
Fort
-On July 21, 1861, there was a battle
known as the First Battle of Bull
Run
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-March 4, 1861, Abraham Lincoln
inaugurated as president
-Lincoln ordered an invasion of Virginia
in the summer of 1861
1862
-April 6, 1862, the Battle of Shiloh takes place
-In the first ironclad battle, the Confederate
Virginia battled The Union Monitor off the coast of
Virginia in 1862
-Lee attacked McClellan’s army , the two sides
clashed for a week, from June 25 to July 1, 1862,
in what became known as Seven Days’ battle
-Lee crossed the Potomac with his army and invaded
Maryland in early September 1862
-On September 17, 1862, at Antietam Creek near
Sharpsburg, Maryland, McClellan’s army clashed with
Lee’s , the resulting Battle of Antietam was the
bloodiest day in all American history
1863
-January 1863, Lincoln issues the Emancipation Proclamation
after presenting it to his cabinet
-In the spring of 1863, riots broke out in a number of Southern
towns
-54th Massachusetts Regiment was one of the first African-American
Regiments organized in the North , it earned its greatest fame in
July 1863 , when it led a heroic attack on Fort Wagner in South
Carolina
-July 1863 Battle of Gettysburg was on. It was Between Lee and
Union troops
-On July 4, 1863, the Union had received news that in Mississippi,
General Ulysses S. Grant had defeated Confederate troops at the
Siege of Vicksburg
1864
-March 1864, General Grant is put in charge of all Union
armies
-November 1864, President Abraham Lincoln is reelected
-Battling Southward from Tennessee, William Tecumseh
Sherman took
Atlanta in September 1864
-In June 1864, Grant’s Armies arrived at Petersburg, just
south of Richmond
-At the Battle of Wilderness in May 1864, Union and
Confederates forces fought
In a tangle of trees and brush so thick, they could barely
see each other
1865
-Lee fled west, while Grant followed in pursuit. Later he sent a
message to General Grant saying he is ready to surrender.
On April 9, 1865, Lee and Grant met in the small Virginia town of Appomattox Court
House too arrange the surrender
-In January 1865, Lincoln urged Congress to try again to
end slavery. This measure passed as the 13th amendment
-April 1865, President Abraham Lincoln is Assassinated
-After 1865, people no longer said “the United States are”
but “the United states is”
-September 1865, English officials arrest Fenian leaders of planned uprising in
Ireland
Lincoln's Assassination
-Five days after Lee’s surrender at Appomattox, Lincoln and
His wife went to see a play at Ford’s Theatre in D.C.
-During the play, a Confederate supporter, John Wilkes Booth,
Crept into the balcony where Lincoln sat and shot him from
The back of the head
-Then he jumped over the railing and landed on the stage.
Although he broke his leg, he managed to escape the theater
-Although Booth escaped the theater after the shooting, Union
Troops found him and killed him several days later
-After Lincoln was shot, he was carried to a house
that was across the theater, however the bullet
in his brain wasn’t able to be removed. April 15, 1865,
Lincoln died
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-One of the greatest effects of the war was freeing of millions of
Enslaved people
-As the Union army moved through the South during and after war,
Union soldiers released African Americans from bondage
-In 1864, President Lincoln had approved of a constitutional
Amendment to end slavery, but failed to pass congress
-In January 1865, Lincoln urged Congress to try again to end slavery.
-This Time, the measure passed as the 13th amendment
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-Republicans weren't satisfied with the passing laws that ensured
Equal rights, they wanted equality to be protected by the
Constitution itself
-To achieve this goal, the Congress proposed the 14th amendment
in 1866
-It is stated that all people born in the U.S were citizens and had
the same rights
-It declared that any state that kept African Americans from
Voting would loose representatives in Congress
-This meant that Southern states would have less power if they
did not grant black men their vote
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-After Grant’s victory, Radical Republicans worried that the Southern
states might try to keep African Americans from voting in future
elections
-To prevent this, Radical leaders stated a new constitutional
amendment
-The 15th amendment stated that citizens could not be stopped
From voting “on account of race, color, or previous conditions of
Servitude.”
-The amendment was ratified in 1870
-With the 15th amendment, the nation again turned toward democracy
-The 15th amendment did not apply to women. Women were mad
Venn Diagram
NORT
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-North had more
People than South
-The North was
more wealthier than
South
-North wanted slavery to
end
-North wanted to be
one whole nation
SIMILARITI
ES
-They both are American
-They both had developed
In 1800
-They both fought against
Each other
-They both had heavy injury
After the war
SOUTH
-South wanted slavery
To expand all over the
nation
-South didn’t want
North to stop slavery
-South wanted to take
over North
-South wanted to
-They both get sick because defeat the North so
Of the virus during Civil War slavery wasn’t banned
-North wanted to cut
the economy so the
confederate would surrender
-South was known
for farming