Civil WarAnd Reconstruction

Breaking Up a Nation and Trying to Mend It Back Together

Civil War – Southern States Leave

• Lincoln Gets Elected–Seven southern states seceded from the

Union in protest against the election winner

–He had not won any votes from the southern states

Civil War

• North (Union-blue) fights the South (Confederacy-gray)

• Lincoln re-elected

• North wins! April 9th or May 10th, 1865 (depends on who you ask)

• On April 14, 1865, President Lincoln was assassinated at Ford’s Theater in Washington by John Wilkes Booth.

• South happy at first…until they realize the new President, Johnson, wants to punish them

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• With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds, to care for him who shall have borne the battle and for his widow and his orphan, to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves and with all nations.

Reconstruction• The Good

– Free public education for African-Americans and whites in the South

– Most of the states of the former Confederacy, in order to regain admission to the Union, were required to ratify the Fourteenth Amendment

– The innovation had the greatest impact on westward migration immediately after the Civil War transcontinental railroad

– At the end of the Civil War, industry in the United States was booming as a result of war profits and business leadership

Reconstruction Con’t

• The Bad– As a result of the Civil War and Reconstruction, the

South would finish the 19th century and enter the 20th century as economically depressed

– The desire to establish military posts contributed to the forced removal of Native Americans from the Great Plains from 1867 to 1890

Reconstruction Con’t

• The Ugly– Southern state governments tried to weaken

President Johnson’s Reconstruction plan by passing black codes

– Southern states were allowed to make their own decisions about segregation legislation therefore the 14th amendment was not successful implemented

– Ku Klux Klan affect the South because it helped the reverse Reconstruction in the South