ch. 12- reconstruction section #1

Reconstruction opening video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oIC8ifQlDVY

After the video, write a reflection and include 5 facts along with these sentence starters I was surprised by… I predict that… I wonder why/what…

Causes and Effects

Read the first page in your packet “Putting the Nation back together”

Write a paragraph about the causes and effects of Reconstruction

What about the South?

The War devastated the South economically

Took away the South’s source of cheap labor (slavery)

Also wrecked the region’s industry 40% of livestock killed, and farm land

and railroad tracks destroyed

Richmond, 1865

War is Over…Now What? Abolition of slavery (13th Amendment) Huge gap between the northern and

southern economy Physical devastation of South Reunification of the country Reconstruction of the South Increased federal authority

Costs of the War

Union war costs totaled $2.3 billion Confederate war costs ran to $1 billion Deaths:

Union=360,000 Confederate=260,000

War changes Lives

13th Amendment-abolished slavery 14th & 15th Amendment- citizenship and

rights for Black Americans

Foundation of the Red Cross

Reconstruction

Reconstruction

The period after the Civil War when the US began to rebuild

Lasted from 1865-1877 The process of re-admitting the Confederate

states to the Union Abraham Lincoln, (VP) Andrew Johnson, and

Congress had different views on how it should be handled

Pg. 187

Lincoln’s Plan for

Reconstruction

Johnson’s Plan for

Reconstruction

Congress’ Plan

10% of southern voters had to swear an allegiance to the Union

Kind to the South, reform the country

10% Plan Like Lincoln

Did not want to give rights to freed slaves•Stopped the Civil Rights Act•Stopped the Freedmen's Bureau

(Radical Republicans)

Tough on the South!Wanted to Punish them for starting the War!

Military Law*Must accept new amendments

Main Idea

Congress opposed Lincoln’s and Johnson’s plans for Reconstruction and instead applied its own plan to rebuild the South

Reconstruction was an important step in African American’s struggle for civil rights

Lincoln’s Plan

Lincoln favored a “compassionate” Reconstruction policy

He believed that it was individuals, not states, who had left the Union

Lincoln wanted to make the South’s return a quick and easy process

Johnson’s Plan

After Lincoln’s assassination Johnson was left to deal with the Reconstruction controversy

Many thought that he would have a harsher plan for the South

JOHNSON HAS DISGUST FOR RADICAL REPUBLICANS ATTEMPT AT IMPROVING AFRICAN AMERICAN LIFE/ BUT HE WAS A FORMER ABOLITIONIST!

RECONSTRUCTION ACT OF 1867

RADICAL REPUBLICANS MAKE THEIR MOVE

DID NOT RECOGNIZE SOUTHERN STATE GOVERNMENTS UNDER LINCOLN AND JOHNSON’S PLANS-EXCEPT FOR TENNESSEE

SPLIT TEN FORMER CONFEDERATE STATES INTO 5 MILITARY ZONES

Reconstruction Act of 1867 Did not recognize southern state

governments under Lincoln and Johnson’s plans-except for Tennessee

Split ten former Confederate states into 5 military zones

Johnson Impeached

The Impeachment of President Andrew Johnson was one of the biggest scandals in the United States during Reconstruction.

Johnson was impeached for breaking the Tenure of Office Act.

He had removed Edwin M. Stanton, the Secretary of War, from office and replaced him with Adjutant General Lorenzo Thomas.

Found Not Guilty!

What Now?

Grant elected 14th Amendment-Citizenship for African

Americans 15th Amendment- African American males

given the vote

WHAT NOW?

GRANT ELECTED14TH AMENDMENT-CITIZENSHIP FOR

AFRICAN AMERICANS15TH AMENDMENT-

AFRICAN AMERICAN MALES GIVEN THE VOTE

DISCRIMINATION

• THE BLACK CODES WERE LAWS PASSED ON THE STATE AND LOCAL LEVEL MAINLY IN THE RURAL SOUTHERN STATES IN THE UNITED STATES TO LIMIT THE CIVIL RIGHTS AND CIVIL LIBERTIES OF AFRICAN AMERICANS.

• WHILE MANY NORTHERN STATES ALSO PASSED LEGISLATION DISCRIMINATING AGAINST AFRICAN AMERICANS BEFORE THE CIVIL WAR

Freedmen’s Bureau

Set up to assist former slaves AND poor whites

Distributed food and clothes Set up hospitals and schools

Freedmen’s Bureau school

Discrimination

The Black Codes were laws passed on the state and local level mainly in the rural Southern states in the United States to limit the civil rights and civil liberties of African Americans.

While many northern states also passed legislation discriminating against African Americans before the Civil War

Flip card game- Vocab review

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