Deeper into the reconstruction

Johnson's Reconstruction "Carrying Out Lincoln's Plan"(April 15, 1865- March 4, 1869)

Lincoln had already started on the plan and it was not much different after Johnson’s input. He started by pardoning the South with some exceptions. Property amongst the whites was going to be shared and their slaves would be free. Confederate leader took charge of the reconstruction.

Black codes were the names given to the laws that the South’s government passed buring the presidency of Andrew Jackson. These laws insited on prohibiting the rights of the blacks to vote, forbidding them to sit on juries, limiting their right to testify against white men, carrying weapons in public places and working in certain occupations. After the civil war congress passed the Civil Rights Bill to protect the blacks from the back codes.

What I learnd in class

Slave Resistance

· Turner Net evaded for two months before he was captured and slathered.

· Some families were sold separately.

· After Turner’s attack against whites, blacks could not get

o Education

o Private meetings

o Etc (something private without having a white person around)

· Harriet Dublin helped slaves escape to Canada for their freedom, passing from the Underground Railroad.

· Herriot Dublin was also a slave herself.

· There were bounty hunters that would capture slaves and bring them back to their owners. (this was a law)

· About 1,000 slaves were freed per year.

· Herriot Dublin went to Canada and back 19 times.

· Herriot Dublin, 1849, “If I can’t have liberty, then I shall have death. I will get one or the other”

· Herriot Dublin also served as a spy for the union of the northwestern troops.

· Herriot Dublin fought for the rights of women.

The Compromise of 1880

· The senate was going to till to the north because of California.

· Some people were speaking about susetion.

· The south said that they had no compromise to offer because the north had already banned slavery in some places.

· William Henry Stewart said that there should be a law above the constitution.

· The donamis bill was not accepted at the start, but then when it was broken down it became accepted.

· California was going to enter the union as a free state while Texas was going to enter the Union as a slave state.

· Runaways were not allowed a trial, but they were listened to. However the judgeless were being paid $10 if they found them guilty and only $5 if they found then not guilty.

Uncle tom’s Cabin

· 1852, There was a novel published by Harriet Bemor Stove called Uncle Tom’s cabin.

· In the North, people did not riley pay attention to slavery except in the government.

· The novel showed that slavery was cruel. It did not only do this by words, but it was also graphic.

· The novel became popular sky-high in the first week it was published. Exerts of it were also published on the newspaper.

· The southern journalist said that the novel represented a bunch of lies and the slaves were not treated well.

· The southerners also wrote many books to try and bring people back about slavery, but they were not very successful.

· In the first week there were 10,000 copies sold, in a year there were 300,000 sold, and after the civil war there were several million.

Kansas and Nebraska Act

· The rail road was an issue again between the north and the south. Because of different economic reasons the north wanted it to go one way while the south wanted it to go another.

· Nebraska was a place was in the past the whites and the Indians had agreed that it would be Indian Territory, but as usual the whites did what they desired and threw them out.

· The New bill repelled the Missouri compromise because with the new law there was going to be a slave state about the 36 degree latitude line, so the northern people were infuriated.

· Settler from the north and from the south went to these states to vote for weather or not it would be a free state.

· Bleeding Kansas refers to when people started destroying anything in their was because they were so mad about the issue of slavery.

· The nation was once again a little closer to was which I would personally even throw in inescapable.

Kim Burns

· He has an option on Mac.

· He began picture movie making and then he inputted in sound.

The Civil War

· It started in a farmer’s field. A shell landed into the owner’s kitchen, so he ran away.

· 2% of the population of the U.S. died in those four years of war.

· More American fell in that war then in all the previous wars combined.

· This was American killing Americans.

· 7,000 Americans fell in less than 20 minutes.

· There were machineguns and repeat shotguns that were never seen before.

· Abraham Lincoln would rise to become the greatest president America has seen.

· The war was about the birth of freedom.

· 1959 was the death of the oldest veteran, and his name was Walter Washington.

Why Did Europeans Import Slaves From Africa, Instead Of Enslaving Native Americans?

The Europeans tried to enslave the Native Americans, and they did. A disadvantage to this was that Native Americans would tend to easily die because of the European brought desires. So when they had to choose an alternative to this, they decide to turn to West Africa which had already booming slaves markets. The slaves were not expensive, and they were located on the coast which made it easier to transport because west was The Americas and north was Europe.

However Europe did not turn to countries like Morocco, Algeria, and many

Arab/Muslim countries because they were not open to slavery. Columbus wrote himself

about the troubles about enslaving the Native Americans. The Natives knew the lands

and had

relatives which were ready to help them anytime.

The compromise of 1850 and the new presidency

The compromise of 1850 had a main goal, it was to level off the slave situation in the states. First California was entered as a free sate, while New Mexico and Utah were to be teratories that each decided for themselves wheather they were going to become free or slave states. The slave trade was to be taken off of district Columbia. With it came a fugitive slave act wich said that officers that did not arrest run away slaves were to pay a fine. It also went against the Missouri comprimise, and this infurated lost of people in the north. The terratories of Kansas and Nebraska to decide on their own weather they would allow slavery or not. This lead people to migrate there to win the election and decide. As people for slavery votes too many times, it was considered fraud and was not approved that they won.

When president Abraham Lincoln was elected, he ran a big danger because people were after his blood. Abraham's new nickname became "the rail splitter". He won the election in the democratic party in the election of 1860. There were now issues about braking away from the country, that existed even before then. It now became more urgent that war was neede, the civial war which started the next month after that.