4.) Identify and describe in detail one event after 1877 in African American history that had a profound effect on African Americans. The one event after 1877 in African American history that had a profound effect on African Americans is the Civil War and Reconstruction. The victory of the Civil War in 1865 have given about 4 million slaves their freedom. In the process of the rebuilding the South, there was an introduction of a new set of challenges. In 1865 and 1866, President Andrew Johnson administration passed some restrictive state legislatures called “black codes” so they could control the labor and some of the behavior of the former slaves and the other African Americans. The North was outraged about these codes. Radical Reconstruction …show more content…
In order for him to do that, he would have to drive the border slave’s states into the Confederacy and anger the Northerners. The slaves have pushed the issue themselves in the summer of 1862. Thousands of the Union lines as Lincoln’s troops marched through the South. The slaves convinced President Lincoln that the emancipation was very necessary. President Lincoln had got a response to the Emancipation Proclamation. In the Confederate states by January 1, 1863, more than 3 million slaves was freed and blacks enlisted in the Union Army in very large numbers and it even reached some 180,000 by the end of war. When Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation it change the ways of the Civil War. No one knew how this would turn out to be. During the next couple of years, Lincoln was trying to figure out how to bring the damanged South back into the Union. The war started to come to an end in 1865 and he still did not have a good plan. On April 11, Lincoln delivered a speech. In the speech he was referring to the plans for the Reconstruction in Louisiana. He also wanted to a proposal for some blacks to have the right to vote, especially for the one who have been freed and joined the military. After Lincoln’s speech was delivered, three days later, Lincoln was assassinated. That means, it is left to his successor to put the plan to …show more content…
According to Johnson’s views of things, the south has never given up their right to govern themselves. This is what was under Johnson’s Presidential Reconstruction, that all land that had been confiscated by the Union Army and that was distributed out to the freed slaves or the Freedmen’s Bureau, which was established by the Congress in 1865) be given back to its prewar owners. Apart from the abolition of slavery, loyalty to the Union and to pay off the war debt and the southern state government is given free reign to rebuild themselves again. In 1865 and 1866, southern states was introduced to some new laws known as the “black codes,” which kept restrictions on the freed blacks’ activities and made sure of their availability as a labor worker. These codes made the North outraged which include many members of Congress. Some refused to seat congressmen and senators that was from the southern states. The Freedmen’s Bureau and Civil Rights Bills was to Johnson for him to sign in 1866. It was the first bill that was extending the life of the bureau which was originally established only as a temporary organization charged with assisting refugees and freed slaves. The second one defined all persons that is born in the United States as national citizens which means that you are treated with equality before the law. When Johnson decided to veto those bills, it caused a bad relationship
From the 1600s to the 1800s a lot of African Americans were involved with the issue of slavery. During that time there were many rebellions for them to get their rights back. The important actions that leading figures such as Frederick Douglass, Harriet Tubman, Nat Turner, during that crucial period, helped many African Americans towards freedom. Harriet Tubman,an escaped slave, became an Abolitionist helping other enslaved blacks, putting her own life at risk. She led hundreds of enslaved people to freedom along the route of the Underground Railroad.
African Americans held rights, but those benefits did not involve a position in the administration. Johnson declared, “White men alone must manage the South.” Johnson forgave virtually everyone who appealed, and ere officers were returned to power. Congress declined to seat these past Confederates.
President Andrew Johnson was being laid back about Reconstruction policies which made southerners turned to the civilian government in 1865 and 1866. The Union winning the war resulted in rebellion from the South because slavery was the reason for the south making money. Southern states were forced to put an end to Slavery because of the 13th Amendment. They also had to swear loyalty to the Union and pay off their war debt. Mississippi and South Carolina were the first states to have Black Codes or Jim Crow Laws.
In the 19th century, slavery and the Reconstruction was a sore subject for the South. Reconstruction forged civil rights for African-Americans, but once the North’s influenced waned in the South, the South terrorized African-Americans and blocked them from accessing their newfound rights. While Reconstruction may have brought civil rights, those rights were quickly squashed by the South’s racism. Even after certain freedoms were securely gained, every new attempt to make African-Americans equal to the white populace was contested. A large group of people were happy to see slavery ended and civil rights rise.
During the Civil War President Abraham Lincoln made a second Emancipation Proclamation. On September 22nd, 1862, after the battle of Antietam he issued a opening Emancipation Proclamation declaring all slaves free. This is when the Union Army gave freed slaves “Forty Acres and a Mule”. Then General Robert E. Lee surrendered at the Appomattox Court House, in Virginia which put an end to the Civil War. After the Civil War most of the South was destroyed so Abraham Lincoln made a plan called “reconstruction” that later turns into “Reconstruction Act of 1867”.
Following the ending of the Civil War in 1865, America was in an era known as the Reconstruction. The Reconstruction lasted until 1877. Citizens were attempting to rebuild our nation following one of the deadliest war in American History. In this time, the Fourteenth Amendment and Fifteenth Amendment to the Constitution were ratified. Although slaves were freed, African Americans still faced intense racial prejudice and discrimination.
So far President Lincoln had contradicted blacks fighting for the Union in any case, after the issuance of the Emancipation Proclamation, which pronounced that slaves in states still in insubordination on January 1, 1863, "should be then, thenceforward, and everlastingly free," he turned around his considering (Horton). Toward the end of the Emancipation Proclamation Lincoln declared that the liberated blacks "would be gotten into the furnished administration of the United States..." Lincoln arranged to take advantage of another wellspring of fighting people (Civil War). Lincoln thought this would both debilitate the foe and fortify the Union The enlistment of the blacks took workers from the South and put them in the Union armed force in spots
African Americans face a struggle with racism which has been present in our country before the Civil War began in 1861. America still faces racism today however, around the 1920’s the daily life of an African American slowly began to improve. Thus, this time period was known by many, as the “Negro Fad” (O’Neill). The quality of life and freedom of African Americans that lived in the United States was constantly evolving and never completely considered ‘equal’. From being enslaved, to fighting for their freedom, African Americans were greatly changing the status quo and beginning to make their mark in the United States.
The Civil War had a major impact on both slaves and freedmen. After The Emancipation Proclamation and the Thirteenth Amendment freed all slaves in the United States, there were still difficulties African Americans faced in the South. Trying to find their way in this new free life was difficult when facing hostile whites and having little to no education. They had very few resources such as money. African Americans were ready for this new freedom which led them into demanding their civil rights.
The North and South disagreed on so many things including slavery so the confederate states wanted to split off with the Union states led by the Lincoln. Lincoln wanted to help the slaves get out of slavery so while he was in office he made sure he did just that. The Emancipation Proclamation sent out by Lincoln during the time of the Civil War acknowledged every slave in the interior of any state, or selected portion of a state in defiance must be everlasting free. When slavery started in the Americas, Africans were removed forcefully from their land in countless numbers and brought to the Americans. This was not the first time Africans came to the new world though.
Before President Lincoln became president he opposed slavery in the territories. Once he took office the way slavery was going to change. On January 1st, 1863 president Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation . The Emancipation Proclamation stated “ that all persons held
Post Civil War, African Americans started to gain rights to gain rights, and soon gain rights equal to whites. While there were some people/things standing in their way (KKK, Black Codes), in the end they got what they needed; Equality. Many acts and laws were passed to aid the new rights now held by African Americans, as well as the numerous people willing to help. New Amendments were added to give African Americans rights after the war, all giving them some equal rights to whites. The first of the three added was the Thirteenth Amendment, it gave African Americans freedom from slave owners, and stated that no one could be kept as a slave in the U.S..
During Abraham Lincoln’s campaigning for presidency, Lincoln expressed his contemporary view that he believed whites were superior to blacks, not as a race, but as a stigma that history had placed, especially amongst the 1858 debates with Stephen Douglas, so when Lincoln passed the Proclamation, he truly believed that he was doing the right thing. This gained the support from people in the Union and the Union as a whole, but ended up putting the Confederates at much more unrest. Even though all of this occured, the 1863 Emancipation Proclamation wasn’t given without some type of warning. Abraham Lincoln passed the preliminary Emancipation Proclamation on September 22nd, 1862. It stated that if the Southern states did not cease their rebellious acts by January 1st, 1863, then Proclamation would go into effect.
It was rough for African Americans in the 1890’s, and though they tried to live a normal easy life they always had obstacles that got in the way. They had thought everything was going good for them with the 13th and 14th amendment being announced. Also The Emancipation Proclamation which stated, on January 1, 1863, "that all persons held as slaves" within the rebellious states "are, and henceforward shall be free" was a speech that actually came out before the 13th and 14th amendment which was the whole reason why those amendments had came out. The 13th amendment stated that "Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction”. This was such a big deal since
Abraham Lincoln’s vs Andrew Johnson’s Reconstruction Plan Lincoln shared the uncommon belief that the confederate states could still be part of the union and that the cause of the rebellion was only a few within the states which lead him to begin the reconstruction in December of 1863. This resulted in plans with lenient guidelines and although they were challenged by Wade-Davis Bill, Lincoln still rejected his ideas and kept his policies in place. Lincoln also allowed land to be given the newly freed slave or homeless white by distributing the land that had been confiscated from former land owners however this fell through once Johnson took office. After Lincoln’s death when Johnson was elected many things started to turn away from giving blacks equal rights and resulted in many things such a black codes which kept newly freed slaves from having the same rights as whites. When Lincoln first acted after the civil war, he offered policies that would allow the confederate slaves to become part of the union again and would allow a pardon for those states.