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∙ 8y agoGeneral Sherman's Special Field Order No. 15.
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Andrew Johnson did nothing to help newly freed slaves. He was more concerned with helping White people who were hurt by the Civil War, especially Southerns. While Andrew Johnson was fulfilling President Abraham Lincoln's pledge to forgive the South after the war, he ignored everything President Lincoln wanted to do to help the newly freed slaves after the end of the war.
A poll tax was an amount of money that a person was forced to pay in order to vote. After the Civil War in the South, poll tax laws were created in order to prevent freed slaves from voting, as they did not have much money. They were, of course, eventually abolished.
Radical Republicans wanted equal rights for freedmen (freed black slaves) and they also wanted a tougher stance against the south.
No side. He was an Abolitionist fanatic, not at all representative of the North as a whole. His actions led the South to believe that the North was in favour of an armed rebellion of slaves, and that war was inevitable.
because slaves were property protected by the constitution
General Sherman's Special Field Order No. 15.
the slaves in the south were freed by the Emancipation Proclamation.
General Sherman's Special Field Order No. 15.
After the Civil War, several factors led freed slaves to believe they could own land in the South. These included promises made by Union generals, the Freedmen's Bureau assisting with land distribution, and the passage of the Homestead Acts which provided opportunities for land ownership. Additionally, the hope for economic independence and self-sufficiency played a role in motivating freed slaves to pursue land ownership.
South got help with its thouands of freed slaves by the Freedman's Bureau.
almost 4 million slaves been freed
General Sherman's Special Field Order No. 15.
Slaves in the U.S. south were freed by the Emancipation Proclamation.
It freed all slaves in the south.
After the Civil War, the promise of owning land in the South was fueled by the Freedmen's Bureau, which aimed to assist freed slaves in acquiring land and establishing themselves economically. The distribution of abandoned and confiscated Confederate land also raised hopes for land ownership among freed slaves. Additionally, the Emancipation Proclamation and Reconstruction Amendments helped solidify the belief that former slaves would have the opportunity to own land in the South.
Because he was the one that freed the slaves from the south
The Civil War was over slavery. The North was against it and the south was for slavery. The North won so all the slaves were freed.