Significant Events After 1877 In African American History

4.) Identify and describe in detail one event after 1877 in African American history that had a profound effect on African Americans.

The one event after 1877 in African American history that had a profound effect on African Americans is the Civil War and Reconstruction. The victory of the Civil War in 1865 have given about 4 million slaves their freedom. In the process of the rebuilding the South, there was an introduction of a new set of challenges. In 1865 and 1866, President Andrew Johnson administration passed some restrictive state legislatures called “black codes” so they could control the labor and some of the behavior of the former slaves and the other African Americans. The North was outraged about these codes. Radical Reconstruction

In order for him to do that, he would have to drive the border slave’s states into the Confederacy and anger the Northerners. The slaves have pushed the issue themselves in the summer of 1862. Thousands of the Union lines as Lincoln’s troops marched through the South. The slaves convinced President Lincoln that the emancipation was very necessary. President Lincoln had got a response to the Emancipation Proclamation. In the Confederate states by January 1, 1863, more than 3 million slaves was freed and blacks enlisted in the Union Army in very large numbers and it even reached some 180,000 by the end of war. When Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation it change the ways of the Civil War. No one knew how this would turn out to be. During the next couple of years, Lincoln was trying to figure out how to bring the damanged South back into the Union. The war started to come to an end in 1865 and he still did not have a good plan. On April 11, Lincoln delivered a speech. In the speech he was referring to the plans for the Reconstruction in Louisiana. He also wanted to a proposal for some blacks to have the right to vote, especially for the one who have been freed and joined the military. After Lincoln’s speech was delivered, three days later, Lincoln was assassinated. That means, it is left to his successor to put the plan to

According to Johnson’s views of things, the south has never given up their right to govern themselves. This is what was under Johnson’s Presidential Reconstruction, that all land that had been confiscated by the Union Army and that was distributed out to the freed slaves or the Freedmen’s Bureau, which was established by the Congress in 1865) be given back to its prewar owners. Apart from the abolition of slavery, loyalty to the Union and to pay off the war debt and the southern state government is given free reign to rebuild themselves again. In 1865 and 1866, southern states was introduced to some new laws known as the “black codes,” which kept restrictions on the freed blacks’ activities and made sure of their availability as a labor worker. These codes made the North outraged which include many members of Congress. Some refused to seat congressmen and senators that was from the southern states. The Freedmen’s Bureau and Civil Rights Bills was to Johnson for him to sign in 1866. It was the first bill that was extending the life of the bureau which was originally established only as a temporary organization charged with assisting refugees and freed slaves. The second one defined all persons that is born in the United States as national citizens which means that you are treated with equality before the law. When Johnson decided to veto those bills, it caused a bad relationship