Chapter 5 - Reconstruction

Section 1: Presidential ReconstructionSection 2: Congressional Reconstruction

Section 3: Birth of the “New South”Section 4: The End of Reconstruction

Section 1: Presidential Reconstruction

TEKS – 24G, 25C

TEKS

24G Support a point of view on a social studies issue

or event. 25C

Transfer information from one medium to another, including written to visual and statistical to written or visual, using computer software as appropriate.

Reconstruction

Reconstruction – a federal government program to repair the damage to the South and restore the southern states to the Union.

Postwar South’s Three Major Groups of People: Black Southerners

Found themselves homeless, jobless, and hungry Worked for former masters

Plantation Owners Land taken by the government or in debt

Poor White Southerners No jobs so they migrated west

Lincoln’s Reconstruction Plan Ten Percent Plan

1. Offered a pardon, or forgiveness of crime, to any Confederate who would take an oath of allegiance

2. No pardons for Confederates who killed African Americans

3. States can hold convention to create new Constitution if state had at least 10 percent allegiance

4. States could then hold elections and resume full participation

Radical Republicans – groups of Republicans who were opposed to Lincoln’s plan for reconstruction

Johnson’s Reconstruction Plan

Presidential Reconstruction1. Pardoned southerners who swore allegiance

2. Permitted each state to hold a constitutional convention

3. States had to void secession, abolish slavery, and repudiate the Confederate debt

4. States could then hold elections and rejoin the Union

African Americans Gain Freedoms

Freedom of Movement Took to the roads

Freedom to Own Land Wanted federal government to redistribute southern land

Freedom to Worship New lack organizations popped up in the South, most

visibly churches Freedom to Learn

Had the ability to learn The Freedman’s Bureau

The first major federal relief agency that gave out clothing, medical supplies, and millions of meals

Section 2: Congressional

Reconstruction

TEKS – 7A, 7C, 8B, 19B, 24D, 24G

TEKS 7A

Trace the historical development of the civil rights movement in the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries, including the 13th, 14th, 15th amendments.

7C Evaluate government efforts, including the Civil Rights Act of 1964, to achieve equality

in the United States. 8B

Pose and answer questions about geographic distributions and patterns shown on maps, graphs, charts, models, and databases.

19B Evaluate the contributions of significant political and social leaders in the United States

such as Andrew Carnegie, Shirley Chisholm, and Franklin D. Roosevelt. 24D

Use the process of historical inquiry to research, interpret, and use multiple sources of evidence.

24G Support a point of view on a social studies issue or event.

Black Codes

Black Codes – laws that restricted freedman’s rights

1. Curfews – no gathering after sunset

2. Vagrancy laws – punishment for not working

3. Labor contracts – agreements for work

4. Land restrictions – forced to live on plantations

Fourteenth Amendment

To guarantee citizens equal protection under the law

Civil rights – citizens’ personal liberties guaranteed by law, such as voting rights and equal treatment

Reconstruction Act of 1867

1. South under military rule, separated into five districts

2. New elections for delegates to create new state constitutions

3. All qualified male voters to vote in state elections

4. Barred supporters of Confederacy from voting

5. Southern states had to guarantee equal rights

6. Required states to ratify the 14th amendment

Johnson is Impeached

Impeach – to charge a President with wrongdoing in office

Left Johnson as a lame duck in office In 1868, General Ulysses S. Grant is elected

President

Fifteenth Amendment

No citizen may be denied the right to vote Texas v. White (1869)

Illegal for any state to secede Upheld Congress’s right to restructure

With these in place, African Americans begin to gain elected positions

The Republican South

Carpetbaggers – northern Republicans who moved to the postwar South to make a quick profit

Scalawag – white southern Republicans seen as traitors

Section 3: Birth of the “New South”

TEKS – 7A, 8B, 20A, 24H

TEKS 7A

Trace the historical development of the civil rights movement in the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries, including the 13th, 14th, 15th amendments.

8B Pose and answer questions about geographic distributions and

patterns shown on maps, graphs, charts, models, and databases.

20A Describe how the characteristics and issues of various eras in

U.S. history have been reflected in works of art, music, and literature such as the paintings of Georgia O'Keeffe, rock and roll, and John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath.

24H Use appropriate mathematical skills to interpret social studies

information such as maps and graphs.

Changes in Farming

Sharecropping – System of farming in which a farmer tends some portion of a planter’s land and receives a share of the crop at harvest time as payment. 50 cents a day

Tenant Farming – Farmers paid to own the land they were farming.

Effects on the South’s Economy

1. Changes in the Labor Force– 90% harvested by slaves => 40% harvested by

white laborers2. Emphasis on Cash Crops

– Cotton, tobacco, and Sugar cane3. Cycle of Debt4. Rise of Merchants

– Stores would sell supplies on credit

Reconstruction Efforts

Poured money into infrastructure The public property and services that a society

uses. Corruption

Much of the money went to those who didn’t need it

Section 4: The End of Reconstruction

TEKS – 7A, 7C, 8B, 24A

TEKS 7A

Trace the historical development of the civil rights movement in the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries, including the 13th, 14th, 15th amendments.

7C Evaluate government efforts, including the Civil Rights Act of

1964, to achieve equality in the United States. 8B

Pose and answer questions about geographic distributions and patterns shown on maps, graphs, charts, models, and databases.

24A Locate and use primary and secondary sources such as

computer software, databases, media and news services, biographies, interviews, and artifacts to acquire information about the United States.

KKK

To keep African-Americans in the role of submissive laborers

Pretended to be ghosts of the Confederate soldiers, returned from the dead in search of revenge against enemies of the South.

Enforcement Act of 1870

Banned the use of terror, force, or bribery to prevent people from voting because of their race. Wiped out the KKK within a year.

The End of Reconstruction

1. Corruption• Legislatures symbolized corruption, greed, and poor

government2. Economy

• Southern states deeper in debt and economic downturn in 1873

3. Violence• When federal troops withdrew from the south, violence

replaced them

4. Democrats Return to Power• Last ex-Confederates had been pardoned and they

formed the solid South (a bloc of Democratic voters)

Compromise of 1877

Election of 1876 Republican - Rutherford B. Hayes

Wins Electoral college vote Democrat – Samuel Tilden

Wins popular vote and electoral college Compromise

North Gets - Rutherford B. Hayes as president South Gets - End of Reconstruction, removal of

federal troops from the South, and money for levees and railroads

End of Chapter 5 - Reconstruction

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