Reconstruction Comic Strip
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- |Battle of Appomattox|
- The Battle of Appomattox Court House took place on April 9, 1865, in the town of Appomattox Court House, Virginia, and ended in the surrender of Confederate General Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia to Union General Ulysses S. Grant.
- |The Start of Reconstruction|
- After the war, President Lincoln had to formulate a plan to move over a million newly freed slaves to become full citizens, and bring all of the Southern states states into the Union and get the Southern economy back in shape.
- |Assassination of President Lincoln|
- President Lincoln was assassinated in Ford Theater on April 14, 1865, by John Wilkes Booth. He died a few hours later. Since it was the first assassination of a president, the government was unaware that they needed to choose a replacement quickly.
- Sources:https://www.history.com/topics/american-civil-war/appomattox-court-house#:~:text=The%20Battle%20of%20Appomattox%20Court,Grant.
- |Presidency of Andrew Johnson|
- Sources:https://www.history.com/topics/american-civil-war/reconstruction
- |Condition of the South|
- Sources:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_of_Abraham_Lincoln
- |Treatment of African Americans|
- Sources:https://www.whitehouse.gov/about-the-white-house/presidents/andrew-johnson/
- Lincoln's vice president was Andrew Johnson. He shared Lincoln's principles, but he did not feel that African Americans earned the right to vote.
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- Sources:http://www.americanyawp.com/text/15-reconstruction/
- Conditions in the South were severe. People's homes were destroyed, leaving widowed women and orphaned children. After all of the slaves were freed and their crops were destroyed, the southern economy was in ruins.
- Sources:https://theconversation.com/exploiting-black-labor-after-the-abolition-of-slavery-72482
- Despite their freedom, African Americans were still treated as slaves in the South. They were imprisoned for petty crimes, which led in their return to slavery and, in some situations, death.
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