Reconstruction Power Point Review

What proof is there that Reconstruction failed?

• Failure to guarantee equal rights for the black freedmen because of the

Black Codes

Ku Klux Klan

Jim Crow Laws

What effect did sharecropping have on the South

• It kept the freedmen economically enslaved because they worked for no pay just a share of the crop

What did the House use against Johnson as

grounds to impeach him

• That President Johnson fired Edwin Stanton , his Secretary of War and violated the Tenure of Office Act that said he had to get the Senate's approval before firing anyone

What effect did Black Codes have on freedmen

• They restricted their rights to vote, rent, own a gun, marry whom they wished, travel

main purpose of literacy tests

• To deny the basic right of voting to the freedmen

Why was President Andrew Johnson impeached

• Because of a power struggle between Johnson and the Congress over how to rebuild the South

How long did Reconstruction last?

• 1865 to 1877

Why is Fourteenth Amendment important

• It made freedmen citizens of the USA and said their rights can not be taken away and

• It made the states responsible to guarantee the Bill of rights for freedmen

The 14th amendment guaranteed what for all citizens

• Citizenship and equal rights under the law

What did Jim Crow laws allow for

• Separate public facilities based on race

like separate restrooms and drinking fountains

The Supreme Court case Plessy versus Ferguson said what

• Separate but equal is legal in America

Radical Republicans were motivated by what?

• Their desire to punish the South for the Civil war and the desire to remain in power as a political party

President Andrew Johnson and Congress fought over what?

• Separation of powers

• Both wanted to be #1 and not co-equal

Why did Radical Republicans oppose President Abraham

Lincoln’s Reconstruction plan

• Was because his plan gave amnesty or forgiveness to nearly all Confederates

• The radicals did not want the former Confederates to vote or have forgiveness

• They wanted to punish the South

How did Hayes become president?

• The smoke filled room deal with the Southern democrats

• Hayes promised to end reconstruction if the Congress made him President

Why was Andrew Johnson not convicted of impeachment and

thrown out

• The vote was one short

• Some senators thought impeachment was a bad example and precedent to set for dealing with a President

How were Abraham Lincoln and President Andrew Johnson

reconstruction plans the same

• Both wanted to allow the Southern states to re-enter the nation as quick as possible

In what ways did the South try to get around or limit the 14th and

15th amendments

• They made up the Black codes and Jim Crow laws

What are the main issues of Reconstruction

• Power and Money

• What political party would be number one and how the North and South would interact economically

Refusal of the South to ratify the Fourteenth Amendment resulted in

what happening?

• Made the radical republicans chose to abolish the existing state governments and establish military districts, form new governments in the South and give the vote to freedmen

How was the first KKK defeated?

• President Grant used the Enforcement Act to round up the KKK and stop their terrorism

What did freedmen do after the war?

• Most returned to their old homes and former masters and worked for them as sharecroppers

Why did Radical and moderate Republicans decide to get rid of

President Johnson

• He had vetoed 2 laws and was not allowing Congress to punish or deal with the South as they wanted to do

What Amendment to the Constitution abolished slavery

13th

Thirteenth Amendment

• There shall be no more slavery of anybody in America

"Compromise of 1877"

• Hayes orders removal of federal troops from the South in return for Congress choosing him as President.

Scalawag

• Southern name given to native-born Southerners who cooperated with Northern efforts to reconstruct the South.

• People in the South who helped the Northern radical republicans

Morehouse College, FAMU, Bethune,

• Private Colleges established by Northern Missionaries and freedmen because the Southern states were not allowing freedmen to use the public education system

Purpose of the Freedman's Bureau

• Feed and educate former slaves and help them adjust to freedom

How did Ulysses S. Grant's presidency end?

• On a bad note because of all the corruption in his administration while he was President

Carpetbagger

• Southern nickname for northerners who came to the South to aid in Reconstruction.

• Some came to help and some to steal

Tenure of Office Act

Congress made this law and it said the President could not dismiss civil officers without Senate consent.

Lincoln's plan for Reconstruction

• 10 % of the voters in the South had to sign an oath of allegiance to the United States

1866 congressional elections

Forget this one

What groups took part in southern governments during reconstruction

• Freedmen

• White Southerners who supported the republicans

• Northerners who went South

Forgiveness and a return to Union with malice towards none and

charity towards all

• Lincoln’s inaugural speech where he said he was not going to punish the South for the Civil War

What was Reconstruction unable to accomplish

• They were unable to get lasting control of the Southern states.

What is the chronological order of major events during reconstruction

• Slaves are freed

• Johnson impeached

• Freedmen get voting rights

• Hayes elected

The Reconstruction Act of 1867 did what 5 things

1. South divided into 5 military districts, with a military governor and federal troops to keep law and order.

2. Confederate leaders could not vote or hold office.

3. Freed slaves could vote and hold office.

4. New state constitutions had to guarantee slaves rights to vote.

5. States must ratify the 14th Amendment.

15th amendment

• Former slaves have the right to vote

How did the south try to stop freedmen from voting?

• Poll taxes

• Literacy tests

How did the South try to make the 14th and 15th amendments not work

• Literacy tests

• Poll taxes

• KKK

• Jim Crow laws

• Black codes

Jim Crow laws are about

• Separate and un-equal is OK in the South

How did the North see the black codes

• Evidence that the South would not be treating the freedmen equally and instead would treat them as inferiors

What is segregation?

• To separate one group from another based on some characteristic such as race

What is ascendancy?

• To be uppermost

• To have the upper hand

• To be on top

Come, let us

ascend this

mountain.

What is amnesty

• forgiveness

What is prominent

• To be number one

• To be the one most easily recognized

• To be first in a group

Yes, I am a prominent American