RECONSTRUCTION 1865 1877
RECONSTRUCTIONS EFFECTS ON AFRICAN AMERICANS
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Question
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The day Texas rejoined the Union
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The day President Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation
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The day the end of slavery was officially announced in Texas
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The day black codes were repealed in Texas
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Detailed explanation-1: -Freedom finally came on June 19, 1865, when some 2, 000 Union troops arrived in Galveston Bay, Texas. The army announced that the more than 250, 000 enslaved black people in the state, were free by executive decree. This day came to be known as “Juneteenth, ” by the newly freed people in Texas.
Detailed explanation-2: -Texas House Bill 1016 passed in the 66th Legislature, Regular Session, declared June 19, “Emancipation Day in Texas, ” a legal state holiday effective starting in 1980. Since that time, the celebration of Juneteenth continues across the state of Texas with parades, picnics, and dancing.
Detailed explanation-3: -Juneteenth honors the date, June 19, 1865, when the last Confederate community of enslaved Americans in Galveston, Texas, received word that they had been freed from bondage.
Detailed explanation-4: -Juneteenth commemorates an effective end of slavery in the United States. Juneteenth (short for “June Nineteenth”) marks the day when federal troops arrived in Galveston, Texas in 1865 to take control of the state and ensure that all enslaved people be freed.
Detailed explanation-5: -Just as Juneteenth originally celebrated freedom in Texas, Emancipation Day specifically marks the day when President Lincoln freed some 3, 000 enslaved people in Washington, D.C.-a full eight months before the Emancipation Proclamation and nearly three years before those in Texas would be freed.