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RECONSTRUCTION
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PA RT I V
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13TH AMENDMENT• Amendment that abolished slavery.
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14TH AMENDMENT• Granted citizenship to all Americans, regardless of race, color, or previous servitude.
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15TH AMENDMENT
• Ratified in 1870, enfranchised, or gave the vote to, black men
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PRESIDENTIAL RECONSTRUCTION• Started by Abraham Lincoln and carried out by Andrew Johnson, the
presidents wished no revenge, no malice, no punishment for Confederates
• Readmit southern states as quickly as possible, and move forward together
• Why did the Lincoln & Johnson want to move forward without punishment?
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(CONGRESSIONAL)RADICAL RECONSTRUCTION• For some Republicans in Congress, the presidential plan for
Reconstruction wasn’t good enough
– For them, the southern states would have to meet certain requirements in order to rejoin the Union
• 13th Amendment: abolish slavery everywhere
• 14th Amendment: define citizenship for all persons
• 15th Amendment: guarantee voting rights for all
• Why do the Radical Republicans insist upon these steps? Whose plan is more appropriate, the president or the Congress?
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RECONSTRUCTION EFFECTS
• Schools were created, hospitals were built, African American
newspapers were created, there were African American
representatives in government from the South
– Morehouse College was founded in 1867
• The Freedmen’s Bureau provided everyday needs like food,
clothing, jobs, medicine and training
• Land was very tough to come by and so former slaves got stuck in
the cycle of sharecropping
• Northern carpetbaggers and southern scalawags played a role as
well in helping former slaves
• How was the sharecropping cycle dangerous?
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NEED TO KNOW!
Freedman’s Bureau
Provided everyday needs for the poor
(African Americans and whites)
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SHARECROPPING
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NEED TO KNOW!
Sharecropping = slavery
Rent land and give percentage of crops
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SCALAWAGS & CARPETBAGGERS
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NEED TO KNOW!
Scalawag
Southern whites who
supported Reconstruction
Carpetbagger
Northerners that moved to
south to profit
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IMPEACHING ANDREW JOHNSON• Congress impeached (accused) Johnson for “high crimes and
misdemeanors”
– He ignored laws that limited his powers
– He got in the way of congressional attempts to reconstruct the South
– He pardoned former Confederate citizens
• Congress fell one vote short in the Senate of convicting him and removing him from office after a three month trial
• What does this tell us about the powers of Congress and the president at this time?
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RESISTING RECONSTRUCTION
• Black Codes were written to control the lives of freed slaves, taking away voting rights, controlling their work, limiting their freedoms
• Secret societies like the Ku Klux Klan were born to fight against Reconstruction and reclaim the political and social superiority of white southerners
• Political corruption also hurt progress and Reconstruction ended after the Election of
1876
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NEED TO KNOW!
Black Codes
Laws limiting freedoms
of African Americans
Ku Klux Klan
White supremacist
secret society
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PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION OF 1876
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PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION OF 1876• Presidential Election of
1876 between Rutherford
B. Hayes vs Samuel Tilden.
• Most hostile,
controversial campaigns in
American History.
• Tilden wins popular vote
but failed to win majority
of the Electoral College.
Electoral votes in four
states Florida, Louisiana,
Oregon and South
Carolina were disputed.
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RECONSTRUCTION MILITARY DISTRICT
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THE COMPROMISE OF 1877• To get the southern Democrats to agree to
Hayes as president, a compromise was
created.
• The Compromise of 1877:
– The Republicans promised to remove
federal troops from the South.
– The Southern Democrats promised to
accept Hayes as President.
• The Compromise ended the Reconstruction
period in the south but ushered in a period of
redemption for white southern who know
regained control of the South.
• Southern States began to deny African
Americans their full rights of citizenship.
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COMPROMISE OF 1877
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• By 1877, had Reconstruction
been a success?
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RECONSTRUCTION PLANS
PRESIDENTIAL
• To reenter the Union, states had to:
– swear allegiance to the Union
– ratify the 13th amendment
• Was willing to pardon high-ranking
Confederate officers
• Favored states’ rights on issues such as
giving African Americans the right to vote
• Did not support the Freedman’s Bureau
• Took a conciliatory (friendly/less angry)
approach towards the South
CONGRESSIONAL/ RADICAL
• Supported the Freedman’s Bureau:
– Created schools
– Created hospitals
– Created Industrial Institutes
– Created teacher-training centers
– Distributed food and clothing
• Supported Civil Rights Act of 1866, which out-
lawed Black Codes
• Passage of 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments
required to reenter the Union
• Divided the South into five military districts
• Supported equal rights for African Americans