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In the year 1870 there were 7,2 million people in the USA. For 1,2 million of these people the words of the Declaration of Independence “that all men are created equal” were far from true. They were black and they were slaves. North and South

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In the year 1870 there were 7,2 million people in the USA.

For 1,2 million of these people the words of the

Declaration of Independence “that all men are created

equal” were far from true. They were black and they were

slaves.

North and South

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In the North of the

United States farms

were smaller and the

climate was cooler

than in the South.

Northern Farmers did

not need slaves to

work for them. Some

o opposed slavery for

moral and religious

reasons also.

By the 1820s

southern and

northern politicians

were arguing fiercely.

North and South

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On march 4, 1861,

Abraham Lincoln

took the oath of

office as President

of the United

States. In His

inaugural address

he appealed to the

Southern states to

stay in the Union

and warned that he

would not allow

them to break up

the United States.

The Southern

States Took no

notice on the

appeal and on April

12 the American

Civil War began.

Abraham Lincoln 16th

President of the United States

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The Civil War gave

the final answers to

two questions. It put

an end to slavery. In

1865 this was

abolished

everywhere in the

US by the 13th

Amendment to the

Constitution. And it

decided finally that

the United States

was one nation,

whose parts could

not be separated.

The Civil War

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But white southerners were

determined to resist any

changes that threatened their

power to control the life of the

south. They were especially

horrified at the idea of giving

equal rights to their former

black slaves.

In July 1866, despite opposition

from the President, Congress

passed a Civil Rights Act. And

then it introduced the 14th

amendment to the Constitution.

The 14th amendment gave

blacks full rights, including the

right to vote.

The 14th Amendment

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All the former Confederate states

except Tennessee refused to

accept the 14th Amendment. The

largest and the most feared

terrorist group was a secret

society called the Ku Klux Klan.

They rode by night through the

countryside, beating and killing

any blacks who tried to improve

their position. Their sign was a

burning wooden cross, which they

placed outside the homes of their

intended victims

The Ku Klux Klan

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Reconstruction

But reconstruction had not been for nothing. The 14th Amendment was especially important. It was the foundation of the Civil Rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s and made it possible for Martin Luther King to cry out eventually on behalf of all black Americans: “Free at last! Free at last! Thank God Almighty, we are free at last!”

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Famous People in America Nowadays

In 2008, Democratic Sen. Barack Obama defeated Republican Sen. John McCain becoming the first African-American elected to the office of President of the United States, and making Barack Obama, Michelle Obama, and daughters Malia and Sasha the first African American First Family of the United States. Ninety-five percent of African American voters voted for Obama.

Michael Jordan

Condoleezza Rice

Barack Obama