Reconstruction

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  In South Carolina, 21 year old male ran into a black church and went on a killing spree killing many innocent lives.
• During reconstruction black men were in the senate
• Even now we are still affected by the collapse of reconstruction
• When black men were allowed to enter the Army, 180,000 former black male slaves rose to the occasion
• The role of black soldiers was important to ensure the end of slavery in the war
• Reconstruction is the process in which American society tried to come to terms and unionize all people after slavery
• They needed to define what a citizen was
• The north and the south saw reconstruction differently
• The south didn't agree with the north even after they lost the war
• Abraham Lincoln suggested that some black men deserved the right to vote
• And John Wilkes Booth assassinated him after that speech
• Hours after Lincolns death Andrew Johnson was sworn in 
  
  
  
• He was a southern democrat and that the civil war came from the rich plantation owners
• Andrew Johnson was not supportive of black people
• The freedmans borough had not a lot of money but instead had a lot of land
• In 1866 a journalist was a south civilization that defended itself from the norths aggression a sentiment that was memorized and favored in the south
• Many white southerners did not want to fight for the confederacy until after the war when they needed to unify
• In November 1865 a Mississippi government that Andrew Johnson set a bunch of racist laws known as the black code
  
  
  
• Every black adult was forced to sign a yearly labor contract or they would have to pay a fine, and then get sold off and work off the fine
• These white people could take black children and say that that they could train them up and make then valuable laborers and black people couldn't do anything about it
• The KKK was created in 1866 in Tennessee and they did the exact same thing the slave patrols did
• They made sure black people are doing labor, not getting too rich, not gaining too much land
• The republican congress was taking over Johnson and they passed the civil rights act of 1866
• Many of the people who were committing the violence were known by the victims
• It took the army 3 days to regain control memphis and every black school and home was burned down
• 48 people were killed and all but 2 were black
• Many northern states didn't allow black men to vote, the south thought this was hypocrisy and the government didn't know what they wanted to do
• The 1868 election was a very important election, black voters were being attacked and killed while trying to vote
• Half a million black men casted their vote and Ulysses S Grant ended up winning because of that
• Many black men were elected to office afterwards, and were given more rights