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US HIST NOTES
US HIST 112 SINCE 1877 NOTES: 8-20-2013

April 1861 Begins Civil War

1864 - big year in civil war

lincoln appoints US GRANT
CINCO DE MAYO OCCURS

ANDREW JOHNSON FIRST AMERICAN PRESIDENT TO BE IMPEACHED. TOOK OVER WHEN LINCOLN DIED. HE BROKE THE LAW. NEVER SERVED ANOTHER TERM

RECONSTRUCTION ( 1865-18770
CULTURAL, ECONOMIC, PHYSICAL, POLITICAL AND SOCIAL PROCESSES DEVELOPED TO REHABILITATE FORMER CONFEDERATE STATES
EVERYTHING NEEDED TO BE REBUILT

SO MANY DIED OF INFECTION INSTEAD OF BECAUSE OF THEIR WOUNDS

INTENSE COMPETITION FOR JOBS WITH LOTS OF IMMIGRATION GOING ON

LITTLE INTERFERENCE WITH BIG BUSINESSES AT THIS TIME TO CREATE JOBS FOR PEOPLE

BIG CAPITALISTS AND INDUSTRIALISTS ON THE RISE

GREAT CHICAGO FIRE WAS IN 1877 WHICH BROUGHT ABOUT THE IDEA OF
STEEL ENFORCED BUILDINGS AND SKYSCRAPERS

MARSHALL LAW ENACTED IN MOST OF THE SOUTHERN STATES BECAUSE OF THE RIOTS AND CAUOS HAPPENING
THADDEUS STEVENS SERVED IN THE US HOUSE OF REPS UNTIL HIS DEATH IN 1868
HE CHOSE TO BE BURIED IN AN AFRICAN AMERICAN CEMETERY
IN KENNEDY BOOK D15-D16 PAGES FOR REF.
AMENDMENTS:
1865: 13TH--ENDS SLAVERY, MISSISSIPPI PASS LAWS CALLED BLACK CODES(LAWS AGAINST THE 13TH AMENDMENT) (ALSO KNOWN AS JIM CROWE LAWS)YOU COULD HAVE A BOND PUT ON YOU THAT PEOPLE COULD BUY AND YOU WOULD HAVE TO WORK IT OFF LIKE SLAVERY. COULD REFUSE SERVICE IN HOSPITALS, RESTAURANTS, PUBLIC FACILITIES
1868: 14TH -- YOURE BORN IN THE UNITED STATES OR IN ITS TERRITORIES YOU ARE A CITIZEN OR UNDERGO NATURALIZATION__ ESTABLISHES CITIZENSHIP
THE KKK EMERGES AT THIS TIME (TERRORISTS GROUP)
CONGRESS PASSES THE KKK ACTS, GIVES GOV AUTHORITY TO GO IN AND CRUSH THE KKK
1870: 15TH--- IF YOU ARE A CITIZEN YOU ARE ALLOWED TO VOTE. DOESNT SAY WOMEN CANT SO THEY ALL GO OUT AND VOTE. WOMENS RIGHTS. SUSAN B ANTHONY.
IMPLICATION OF 15TH FOR WOMEN
MINOR V. HAPPERSETT
WOMEN SUES TO HAVE WOMEN VOTE. BUT IT GOES AGAINST THEM SO THE 15TH ADMEN DOES NOT APPLY TO WOMEN.
FOR 46 YEARS WOMEN
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