Emancipation Proclamation January 1, 1863
Transcript of the Proclamation |
| The Battle of Gettysburg was fought July 1–3, 1863, in and around the town of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania |
Following the victory at Gettysburg the war torn nation experienced draft riots across the North. The riots in New York City, were the worst civil uprising in United States history. Low and middle class began revolting against the draft, but it soon turned into a deadly race riot. In the end several thousand were injured, fifty buildings, including an orphanage for black children (Colored Orphan Asylum), had been burned, and over 100 people had been killed. The majority killed were African American men, eleven due to lynching. The riots illustrated the discontent of many in the North.
The 13th Amendment ratified on April 14th, 1865
Section 1.
Section 1.
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.
Section 2.
Section 2.
Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.
Less than two months after being re-elected by 25 states (The 11 Confederate states did not participate in the election), and only five days after General Lee's surrender, on the evening of April 14, Lincoln was fatally wounded while attending a performance at Ford's Theater in Washington, D.C. He was the first U.S. president to be assassinated.
On April 9th, 1865 General Robert E. Lee surrenders
His new vice-president Andrew Johnson became president after Lincoln's assassination.
Reconstruction (1865–77) is a period in U.S. history that followed the American Civil War to reunify the 11 states that had seceded from the country, as well as redress the inequities of slavery and its political, social, and economic legacy.