HIST 1312 1st Edition Lecture 1 Outline of Current Lecture I Reconstruction A End of Civil War B Lincoln s Assassination C Freedman s Bureau II Amendments A 13th Amendment B 14th Amendment C 15th Amendment Current Lecture l A The civil war ended in April 1865 although the last battle was in September of that year With the Union victory the South was forced back into the Union and had to undergo reconstruction This allowed the South to rebuild their communities and homes The end of the civil war also freed the slaves although it did not give them equal rights B Lincoln was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth in April 1865 With this assassination Andrew Johnson became the new president Johnson was opposed to the rights of free blacks and he was the first president to be tried for impeachment although he was found not guilty by one vote Johnson was trying to fire his Secretary of War Edwin Stanton This was not legal so he was almost impeached C After the Civil War the South was very chaotic Many families had moved from their original homes because of the war and had relocated to other places If these mothers and wives wanted to be found by their husbands or sons they would go to the Freedman s Bureau write down their names and who all was with them and their new location so their men could find them when they travelled back home ll A The 13th Amendment was made in 1865 when Lincoln pushed Congress to pass it This amendment abolished slavery and prohibits involuntary servitude except in cases of incarcerated powers This amendment also freed those slaves who lived in the North These notes represent a detailed interpretation of the professor s lecture GradeBuddy is best used as a supplement to your own notes not as a substitute during the Civil War who had not been freed earlier by Lincoln s Emancipation Proclamation B The 14th Amendment states that any person born within the U S are citizens of the U S It also guaranteed equal protection under the law and every citizen s right to due process This prohibits states from abridging the rights of any citizen The government can no longer take away your property life or liberty without due process unless in cases involving the I R S C The 15th Amendment prohibits the violation of the rights of citizens to vote because of their race color or previous condition of servitude So now blacks can vote as well as whites although the whites tried their hardest to stop this from happening by intimidating or killing blacks if they felt necessary
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