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1865-1877

Gone with the Wind

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Rebuild the south after the American Civil War

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The South was decimated after the American Civil War

> Economically> Politically> Socially

**war fought mostly in the South

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EconomicallySouth in ruins

> RR> Farms> Bridges > Factories

Confederate $ is worthless

System of slavery is dissolvedGone with the Wind

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Confederacy dissolved

*** strong state government

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Socially

Families broken: over issue of the war or death

Freedmen: ex-slaves

Resentment over loss of the war

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Punish the south or not?

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Lincoln’s 10% Plan

1863

10% of southern voters pledge loyalty to the Union

End slavery

May 30-10:00 AM

Radical Republicans:

Congressmen

Radical = Extreme

Thaddeus Stevens

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April 14, 1865By John Wilkes BoothAt Ford’s Theater

Why?To try and save theSouth from severe punishment… had the reverse impact

Lincoln's Assassination

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Andrew Johnson

Lincoln's VP, now President

Presidential Reconstruction:

*similar to Lincoln's Plan

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Section 1.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.

Section 2.

Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.

13th Amendment: bans slavery

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Presidential Reconstruction:

Ex-Confederate elected into office

Black Codes: passed by southern state government (limit Freedmen's rights)*upsets Radical Republicans

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Power struggle between the President and the Congress

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Impeached: brought on charges (trial)

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Reconstruction Act of 1867:

1. South divided into 5 military districts

2. Ex-Confederate could not vote or hold office

3. Majority swear loyalty

4. ratify the 14th Amendment

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Section 1.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.

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Political

Scalawags: Southern Republicans

Freedmen: able to vote vote Republicans and freedmen into office

**15th Amendment: government can’t deny someone the right to vote based on one’s race

Carpetbaggers: northerners that moved south > Ran for political office

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Freedmen’s Bureau:

Help African-Americans adjust after years of slavery

**education, food, housing, medical aid, and legal assistance

Jun 3-11:26 AM

Bitter: form hate groups (Ku Klux Klan) ***resistance to change

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No slavery sharecropping

> Freedmen work the fields for a share of the crop small percentage poverty** legal form of slavery (neo-slavery)

More industrial less reliable on north ** "The New South"

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Ulysses S. Grant

Elected in 1868

Civil War hero

Pardoned Ex-Confederates (can now vote and hold office)

Corrupt Administration (cabinet)

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Impact of the Pardon of Ex-Confederates

Democrats gain power --> Republicans lose power

**Freedmen lose power (laws passed by these new state governments)

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Corrupt Administration

People lose faith in the Republican party

lose faith in their ideas (Reconstruction)

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Compromise of 1877:

Hayes becomes president (makes Republicans happy)

Reconstruction ends (makes Democrats happy)

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Legacies of Reconstruction:

13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments

The "New South"

redistribution of land and income

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The Jim Crow Laws:

State segregation laws

What

segregation?

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Loopholes to the 15th Amendment

RACE

based on other factors...

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Have to pay a poll tax to vote... most blacks lived in poverty (sharecroppers)

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Lynchings

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were hung in a public place?

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Plessy vs. Ferguson1896

Established "separate but equal" doctrine

**segregation is Constitutional