reconstruction era us history a theme # 2 president andrew johnson homer plessy
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DESTRUCTION OF THE SOUTH
Americans faced the challenge that the country needed to be rebuilt.
The war destroyed lots of property
The Thirteen Amendment-end of slavery.
The slaves were happy and excited to be free.
LAWS TO REBUILD THE SOUTH
Congress passed laws to help rebuild the South
Bureau of Refugee, Freedman, and Abandoned Lands (Freedman’s Bureau) led whites and blacks to get back on their feet
The bureau helped with establishing hospitals and provided medical care
Schools and colleges were established to assist the people.
LAWS TO REBUILD THE SOUTH
Reconstruction Plans by President Johnson:
written a new state constitution
elect a new state government
repeal its act of succession agree not pay Confederate
debts
Honest conviction is my courage; the
Constitution is my guide.
LAWS TO REBUILD THE SOUTH
ratified 13 Amendment Black Codes allowed the Blacks to
marry, own property and sue but they couldn’t vote
Amendment 13 Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except
as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted,
shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.
LAWS TO REBUILD THE SOUTH
Civil Rights Act nullified the black codes Fourteenth Amendment states all
blacks were citizens A new reconstruction plan by Congress: A new constitution that supported
black suffrage elect a new state government
PRESIDENT ANDREW JOHNSON PUSHED FOR NEW LAWS
ratify the 14 Amendment apply readmission President Johnson was impeached
because he enforced the Tenure of Office Act by firing Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton
ratify the 14 Amendment
Amendment 14 All persons born or naturalized
in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.
CHANGES IN THE SOUTH
Three types of voters moved to the South” Northern Teachers, Freedman’s bureau agents business people (carpetbaggers) make lots of
money Southerners would didn’t support the rebellion Ulysses Grant was elected to President Fifteen Amendment a person’s right to vote
((without color, race or slavery) Public schools and hospitals were established Women right to own property
Amendment 15The right of citizens of the United States to
vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on
account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude.
RISE OF THE KKK
Ku Klux Klan and Knights of the White Camelia harassed African-American voters and their supporters.
The secret societies were violent burned crosses and used fear and horror
These groups wanted white rule Enforcement Act tried to protect the
African-Americans
SEGREGATION POLICIES African-Americans had to
pay a poll tax or literacy test to vote.
Grandfather Clause -if your grandfather voted then you were able to vote.
Jim Crow laws- separation of blacks and whites in public areas ( segregation laws).
Many African-Americans were lynched.
SEGREGATION POLICIES
Plessy v. Ferguson(1896)Separate but equal is legal
The object of the Fourteenth Amendment was undoubtedly to enforce the absolute equality
of the two races before the law, but in the nature of things it could not have been
intended to abolish distinctions based upon color, or to
enforce social, as distinguished from political equality, or a commingling of the
two races upon terms unsatisfactory to either."
Homer Plessy
CIVIL RIGHTS LEADER Ida B. Wells- Barnet
tried to stop the lynching.
Brave men do not gather by thousands to torture and murder a
single individual, so gagged and bound he cannot make even feeble resistance or defense.
CIVIL RIGHTS LEADER Booker T. Washington
established Tuskegee Institute to educate the African-Americans
Associate yourself with people of good quality, for it is better
to be alone than in bad company.
CIVIL RIGHTS LEADER William E.B. Bois
urged African-Americans to fight injustice and to stop discrimination and encourage equalityAn American, a Negro... two souls,
two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings;
two warring ideals in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone
keeps it from being torn asunder.
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