Last thoughts

Before TCAP on the Civil WarTest will be Tuesday (TCAP style

Questions)

EmancipationProclamation

• A statement issued by Abraham Lincoln• September 22, 1862, it declared that all slaves

in the rebellious Confederate states would be free

Gettysburg Address

• The speech given byAbraham Lincoln after the Battle of Gettysburg

which explained the ideals and spirit of democracy and to continue the fight for it.

• Changed the purpose of the Civil War from preserving the Union to abolition of slavery

Civil War Amendments

• 13th

– Freed all slaves

• 14th

– Made former slaves citizens

• 15th

– Gave males the right to vote

Reconstruction

• Lincoln want to readmit all states back to the Union with minimal requirements

• He also wanted the states to decide for themselves what to do with former slaves

• BUT he was killed and Lincoln’s plan went out the window

Radical Reconstruction

• Andrew Johnson becomes president and allows congress to punish confederate states– Former confederate states must write new

constitutions and ask to be readmitted (which could be denied)

– No former confederate loyalists could NOT participate in government roles

– Confederate states put under Martial Law until 1877