RECONSTRUCTION 1865 1877
PRESIDENT LINCOLNS LEGACY
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Question
[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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President Johnson sent troops to Louisiana to prevent another riot.
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Former Confederates who had participated in the riot were tried and jailed
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Laws were immediately passed giving freedmen the right to vote in Louisiana.
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Northern outrage led to the election of more Radical Republicans and stricter legislation
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Detailed explanation-1: -The New Orleans Massacre (also known as the New Orleans Riot) occurred when white residents attacked Black marchers gathered outside the Mechanics Institute, where the reconvened Louisiana Constitutional Convention met in response to the state legislature enacting Black Codes and limiting suffrage.
Detailed explanation-2: -The New Orleans Massacre of 1866 occurred on July 30, when a peaceful demonstration of mostly Black Freedmen was set upon by a mob of white rioters, many of whom had been soldiers of the recently defeated Confederate States of America, leading to a full-scale massacre.
Detailed explanation-3: -On May 1 and 2, 1866, black Union veterans and white policemen and firemen clashed in a violent fracas that would become known as the 1866 Memphis Race Riots. It was the culmination of racial tensions that had been growing since Federal occupation of the city of Memphis began in 1862.
Detailed explanation-4: -The riot started after an alarm went out that African American soldiers from Fort Pickering, on the south boundary of downtown Memphis, had killed several policemen who tried to arrest a black soldier.