1. Vocabulary Chapter 6 manufacturing abolitionist secede tariff
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inaugurate
regiment
casualty
freedmen
sharecropper
scalawag
carpetbagger

2. AL History Chapter 6
In 1860, Abraham Lincoln was elected as President of the U.S.
People in the North and South disagreed on issues such as slavery, states’ rights, internal improvements, how land in the West was sold, and tariffs.
On January 11, 1861, Alabama voted to secede from the U.S. and become a “free…and independent state.”

4. On February 4, 1861, six states met and organized a government for themselves called the Confederate States of America.
The new Confederate States elected Jefferson Davis of Mississippi as their president, and Montgomery, AL served as the first capital city of the Confederacy.

5. Jefferson Davis
Montgomery Capital of the Confederacy

6. The disagreement between the Confederate States and the United States soon led to war.
After the Confederacy fired shots on Fort Sumter on April 12, on April 15, 1861, President Lincoln called for volunteer soldiers from the Union, and the Civil War began.
Many African Americans took part in the war by fighting, carrying supplies, caring for horses, and working in army camps. Some escaped and joined the Union Army.

7. Selma, AL was an important military supply center for several reasons:
It was close to mineral and water resources
Selma Arsenal made ammunition.
Selma’s Naval Yard built ships.
Women worked hard to support the war by knitting socks, weaving cloth, sewing uniforms, and working in mills and factories.

8. The Battle of Fredericksburg was an important Confederate victory in Dec. 1862.
In July 1863, the AL Brigade and others fought in the Battle of Gettysburg in Pennsylvania. This was one of the main battles of the war and a Union victory.
By April 1865, Confederate forces were outnumbered by Union troops. General Robert E. Lee, leader of the Confederate Army, surrendered.

9. Union Army leader, General Ulysses S
Union Army leader, General Ulysses S. Grant, accepted Lee’s surrender at Appomattox Court House, Virginia on April 9, 1865.
General Ulysses S. Grant
General Robert E. Lee

10. On Jan. 1, 1863, President Lincoln signed and issued the Emancipation Proclamation, which freed enslaved people in the Confederate States.
In Dec. 1865, the Thirteenth Amendment, which abolished slavery throughout the country, became a part of the U.S. Constitution.

11. After the war, AL was severely damaged
After the war, AL was severely damaged. Plantations, farms, and cotton had been set on fire. Railways and cars had been destroyed. Steamboats were wrecked. Schools and churches were closed.
The South was about to face a long period of rebuilding known as Reconstruction.
Reconstruction was a time of change for most African Americans. For the first time, 27 AL African Americans served in legislature and African American men were allowed to vote.

12. Groups against the changes Reconstruction brought, such as the Ku Klux Klan and the Bourbon Redeemers, did not want equality for African Americans.
On Nov. 3, 1874, voters in AL chose to put an end to Reconstruction and many people from the KKK and Bourbons gained control of the legislature and stayed in power for nearly 20 years.