The Civil War- Freedom at Last?

Abraham Lincoln was elected president and wanted to give slaves rights. This lead to the secession of seven southern states which formed the Confederate States of America. Now, America was divided and the only reasonable solution was to fight. The North, fighting against slavery, eventually won the war. On January 1, 1863, Lincoln gave the Emancipation Proclamation, which stated, "slaves within any state, or designated part of a state...in rebellion,..shall be then, thenceforward, and forever free." This was followed by the 13th Amendment, which abolished slavery, the 14th Amendment in 1868, which gave equal protection under the constitution, and the 15th Amendment in 1870, which gave black Americans the right to vote. Even though these had been declared, African Americans still continued to receive unfair treatment, and to add on to this, the Ku Klux Klan was formed in 1877 in order to raise havoc on the African American race.