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| Mexico became an independent nation |
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| Texas declared their independance |
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Treaty of ft. Laramie
The Indians guaranteed safe passage for settlers on the Oregon Trail in return for promises of an annuity in the amount of fifty thousand dollars for fifty years. |
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| President Lincoln issues the Emancipation Proclamation, freeing slaves in states or portions of states still in rebellion on January 1, 1863 |
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| Wade–Davis Bill of 1864 |
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- State suicide, when a state succeeded from the union
- You had to have 50% of the southerners vote
- Had to sign the iron clad oath
It was "pocket vetoed" by President Lincoln and never took effect |
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| assassination of President Abraham Lincoln |
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- 13th amendment was added
- Freed the slaves |
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| Ku Klux Klan is organized at the law offices of Thomas M. Jones in Pulaski, Tennessee |
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| The Fourteenth Amendment was adopted. |
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| President Ulysses S.Grant set a proclamation that Indians would be on reservations by Jan 31st 1876 |
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Tilden vs. Hayes
- Tilden agreed to step aside if the south agrees to end
- Compromise of 1877
- Hayes agreed to be a one term president |
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| Frederick Jackson Turner read his "Frontier Thesis", at the Chicago worlds fair and the American Historical Association |
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| Who was the commander of the confederate armies? |
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| The United States, without it we would not be UNITED, yet we would be divided |
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| Killed more people in American history than any other thing |
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| founder of the second Ku Klux Klan on Thanksgiving Night of 1915 and was also a sheet salesman |
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W.E.B. DuBois
William Edward Burghardt |
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| head of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) in 1910 |
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Its Due Process Clause prohibits state and local governments from depriving persons of life, liberty, or property without certain steps being taken to ensure fairness
-Its Citizenship Clause provides a broad definition of citizenship that overruled the decision in Dred Scott v. Sandford (1857), which held that blacks could not be citizens of the United States. |
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- Plessey vs. Ferfuson (1896)
- Separate but equal
- Dejour law
- 7-1 decision that it is legal
- Brown vs. Board changed the law |
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Denied rights to individuals
Debt Peonage
meant being in debt so bad you can't get out of it |
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