Ch.5 The American Civil War
South Against North
- President Abraham Lincoln
- In the southern states, slavery was legal and in the northern states, slavery was illegal.
- On April of 1861, the Civil War began and on April 9th, 1865, the war was over.
- In 1862, Abraham Lincoln announced the “Emancipation Proclamation”
After the Civil War
- Lincoln’s assassination only a few days after the end of the war
- In December of 1865, the Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution was passed
- Slavery had ended. But it would be many more years before African-Americans were given all of the freedoms and privileges of whites.
