The document summarizes the history of slavery in the United States from 1619 to 1865. It discusses how slavery began with the importation of slaves from Africa and the inhumane conditions they faced. It then outlines key events and developments over time such as bans on international slave trade, the American Civil War, emancipation of slaves, and the 13th and 14th Amendments abolishing slavery and providing citizenship to former slaves. The summary concludes that thanks to the Civil War and new laws, slavery was ended and freed slaves gained some legal protections.
First and second lectures for second year ISLN students in American history. The lectures focus on the economic political and social divide of the American nation in 1860-1865
First and second lectures for second year ISLN students in American history. The lectures focus on the economic political and social divide of the American nation in 1860-1865
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ppt on the history of America
Outine:
Columbus’ trip to the Americas
A pre-history of the Native Americans
The First Settlers
The Boston Tea Party
The American Revolution & The Declaration of Independence
resources:
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Charles W. Toth, Liberte, Egalite, Fraternite: The American Revolution and the European Response.
Alfred F. Young, The Shoemaker and the Tea Party: Memory and the American Revolution
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CHAITANYA.G.KANSARA
ADITYA.M.PATIL
SUMEDH.S.PATIL
ppt on the history of America
Outine:
Columbus’ trip to the Americas
A pre-history of the Native Americans
The First Settlers
The Boston Tea Party
The American Revolution & The Declaration of Independence
resources:
http://books.google.com/books?id=trXE936uHLsC&pg=PA55#v=onepage&q&f=false
http://books.google.com/books?id=K4lEy7A8fnYC&pg=PA146#v=onepage&q&f=false
Charles W. Toth, Liberte, Egalite, Fraternite: The American Revolution and the European Response.
Alfred F. Young, The Shoemaker and the Tea Party: Memory and the American Revolution
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ch. 17: South & Slavery Controversy 1793-1860
ch.18: Manifest Destiny & Legacy 1841-1840
ch.19:Renewing the Sectional struggle 1848-1854
ch.20: Drifting Towards Disunion-1854-1861
CHAPTER 8 RECONSTRUCTION, Opening and Closing , 1865-1900Cont.docxchristinemaritza
CHAPTER 8: RECONSTRUCTION, Opening and Closing , 1865-1900
Contents
Introduction and Pre-Reading Questions: 1
Documents: 5
Document 1, Harper’s Weekly comments on the Freedman’s Bureau, 1868 (Harper's Weekly, 1868) 5
Document 2, Former slaves reflect on their happiness with freedom and the Thirteenth Amendment (Library of Congress, 1936-1938) 7
Document 3, Mississippi Black Codes, 1865 (America Past and Present Online, 1865) 13
Document 4, Reflections on the Lincoln Assassination (The New York Times, 1865) 15
Document 5, President Andrew Johnson orders the return of Field Order 15 land (Engine of Souls Forum, 1865) 18
Document 6, The 14th and 15th Amendments (The Charters of Freedom, 1866 (r. 1868); 1869 (r. 1870)) 19
Document 7, The Arkansas Gazette on Black Male Suffrage, 1890 (Perman, 2001) 20
Document 8, 1868 Ku Klux Klan Charter (albany.edu, 1868) 21
Post-Reading Exercises: 22
Works Cited 22
Introduction and Pre-Reading Questions: As you know, the North won the Civil War in 1865 under the presidential leadership of Abraham Lincoln. Well, Lincoln had his work cut out for him as president during this war, and, in particular, he had his work cut out for him in terms of figuring out what to do with the South once the war was over. It became clear by 1864, well before the Confederacy surrendered, that the Union was going to win the war. Looking back, it seems that perhaps Lincoln shouldn’t have let the war go on so much longer, since it was obvious—really to both sides—who the eventual victor would be. Indeed, some have argued that Lincoln should have negotiated with the South to try and end the war sooner. But Lincoln would have argued that he could never have negotiated with the South—he insisted that since the Confederacy was a rebellious bunch, since they had no legal right to exist, he couldn’t negotiate with them.
So Lincoln instead had to focus on what to do with the South once the war really did end. Lincoln did know one thing for sure—he knew he couldn’t just readmit the South and pretend that nothing had happened. Too much blood had been shed for that and he also didn’t want anyone to think that when they didn’t like a governmental policy, they could just secede from the Union with no consequences. This much was clear to Lincoln early on, but aside from this, he wasn’t too sure on how to proceed with the reunification or the reconstruction of the nation.
By the time the war did finally end in 1865, the South was in tatters, with homes and buildings destroyed, railroads and bridges completely gone, fields untended. The Emancipation Proclamation had stripped many Southerners of their slaves and many acutely felt new economic burdens, particularly because so many fathers and sons had been killed in the war. For these white Southerners, they hoped that the period of Reconstruction—the period of reunifying the nation—would consist of the federal government stepping out of southern affairs and they hoped to see African ...
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The lower half of the city of Charleston, South Carolina, the seedbed of secession, lay in
ruin when most of the white population evacuated on February 18, 1865. A bombardment
by Union batteries and gunboats around Charleston harbor had already destroyed many of
the lovely, neoclassical townhomes of the low-country planters. Then, as the city was
abandoned, fires broke out everywhere, ignited in bales of cotton left in huge stockpiles in
public squares. To many observers, the flames were the funeral pyres of a dying civilization.
Among the first Union troops to enter Charleston was the Twenty-first U.S. Colored
Regiment, which received the surrender of the city from its mayor. For black Charlestonians,
most of whom were former slaves, this was a time of celebration. In symbolic ceremonies,
they proclaimed their freedom and announced their rebirth. Whatever the postwar order
would bring, the freedpeople of Charleston converted Confederate ruin into a vision of
Reconstruction based on Union victory and black liberation.
Still, in Charleston as elsewhere, death demanded attention. During the final year of the
war, the Confederates had converted the planters’ Race Course, a horse-racing track, and
its famed Washington Jockey Club, into a prison. Union soldiers were kept in terrible
conditions in the interior of the track, without shelter. The who died there of exposure
and disease were buried in a mass grave behind the grandstand. After the fall of the city,
Charleston’s blacks organized to create a proper burial ground for the Union dead. During
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Chapter 14: Reconstruction: An Unfinished Revolution, 1865–1877 Chapter Introduction
Book Title: A People & A Nation
Chapter Introduction
Photograph of the grandstand and clubhouse of the Washington Jockey Club and
Race Course, Charleston, SC, site of Confederate prison and burial ground of more
than 260 Union soldiers, as well as the first commemoration of Decoration Day,
May 1, 1865.
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April, more than twenty black workmen reinterred the dead in marked graves and built a
high fence around the cemetery. On the archway over the cemetery’s entrance they painted
the inscription “Martyrs of the Race Course.”
And then they planned an extraordinary ceremony. On the morning of May 1, 1865, a
procession of ten thousand people marched around the planters’ Race Course, led by three
thousand children carrying armloads of roses and singing “John Brown’s Body.” The
children were followed by black women with baskets of flowers and wreaths, and then by
black men. The parade concluded with members of black and white Union regiments, along
with white missionaries and teachers led by James Redpath, the supervisor of freedmen’s
schools in the region. All wh ...
2. The history of slavery in the United States, which
began about 1619, Starts after the installation of the
first British settlers in Virginia and ends with the
adoption of the 14th Amendment to the U.S.
Constitution after the Civil War. Slavery has drained
Africa, in the most atrocious conditions, where few
survived. During this period, slavery occupied a
central position in the social and economic
organization in the South. In total, thirteen colonies
imported about 600 000 Africans. Any slave wishing to
regain his freedom have incurred the terrible
punishments dictated by the Black Code.
3. 1619 : The first black slaves were imported into Virginia.
Millions of African slaves were transported on the
American continent.
1790 : 20% of the total population of the United States is
of African origin.
1783 : After the American Revolution, slavery was
abolished in the north.Slaves were used like domestic and
agricultural (tobacco plantations and cotton).
1808 : There are 4 million slaves.
1820 : There is a movement against slavery in the north.
4. 1807 : Internationally, the slave trade was officially banned, having killed
more than 20 million Africans. But nothing changed in the United States.
The importation of slaves (many of them died of disease in the holds of
slave ships) took to a significant degree.
At the end of the eighteenth century, the number of slaves brought
into the South was 750 000.
The slaves were not without reaction and they tried to rebel against their
"masters".
Alliances were made between black slaves and Indians, united in the
same hatred of the white man
Blacks had won their freedom, but the whites did not accept the equality
between the two races, considering the obvious superiority.
5.
6. April 12, 1861: first shot
May 6, 1861: Confederate Congress declared war in Alabama in the United States
North strongest military power, material benefit. 22 million people. 2 million of
combat 186 000 black
South: 9 million inhabitants, including 4 million slaves. they suffered a lack of
food, clothing, medicines, heavy artillery ... 900 000 white men but better
soldiers (Robert E. Lee and Joseph E. Johnston)
February 3, 1865: Lincoln is trying to end the war through negotiations but fails
March 4, 1865: Lincoln made his inaugural speech and said ""
April 9, 1865: Official end of the war
April 14, 1865: assassination of Lincoln by John Wilkes Booth 5 days after the
signing of the peace
7. Death toll: 620,000 dead and many injured
354,000 in the north and 258 000 in the south. 1
million deaths among the total deaths in combat
and death after fight
Economic Report: rubble, railway lines torn
crops destroyed, cattle slaughtered.
Politics Report : The war has increased the
authority of government. The U.S. Congress has
dictated laws against which the South was
strongly opposed
8.
9. Abraham Lincoln stated the emancipation of the slaves of the south which was to
take effect January 1, 1863. The proclamation did not release any slave border
states (Kentucky, Missouri, Maryland, Delaware, West Virginia).
Four million slaves freed in July 1865.
The thirteenth amendment eradicated slavery December 18, 1865.
The 14 amendment (or amendments to the reconstitution)
“Any State may enact or enforce a law limiting the privileges or immunities of
citizens of the United States, no State may deprive anyone of life, liberty or
property without due process of law, or deny to any person within its jurisdiction
the equal protection of the laws ”
This amendment requires the Federated States respect Fundamental Rights has
parked in the first 10 amendments of the constitution of 17870.
It is applied (with the 15th amendment) after the Second World War.
10. Thanks to the war, the slaves have been freed
and laws were created in their favor.