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The Ordeal of Reconstruction, 1865-1877

The Ordeal of Reconstruction, 1865-1877. Although Reconstruction did address difficult issues of reform, it left behind a deep legacy of racial and sectional bitterness. I. Conditions after the Civil War. The country was a singular nation now.

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The Ordeal of Reconstruction, 1865-1877

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  1. The Ordeal of Reconstruction, 1865-1877 Although Reconstruction did address difficult issues of reform, it left behind a deep legacy of racial and sectional bitterness

  2. I. Conditions after the Civil War • The country was a singular nation now. • New political and economic centers—all in north/west • Stronger federal government • Rebuilding the South • Economic ruins • Impact of Emancipation on southern life • Federal Intervention • Scalawags/Carpetbaggers • 13th Amendment • Freedman’s Bureau • Republicans lead the North • President Johnson is new leader • Stronger alliance between business and govt. • Motivated by racism (of black free man) and revenge (of Democrats)

  3. II. Presidential Reconstruction: A Moderate Approach • Lincoln’s 10% Plan • 10% of voters in 1860 election, obey emancipation, and state. • Response of GOP: Wade Davis Bill, 1866 • 50%, Iron-clad Oath, constitutional convention, and Feds OK otherwise “conquered provinces” • Revealed differences between Congress and Johnson • Also revealed early split in GOP • Johnson’s Plan • Similar to Lincoln • Disenfranchised some whites, pardons others, and state conventions with 13th. • Veto Freedman Bureau, 1866

  4. III. Congressional Reconstruction • GOP Resentment to White Supremacy • Ex-Confeds in Congress! • Black Codes • KKK violence • Civil Rights Bill, 1866 (Transition from Presidential to Congressional Recon.) • Response to Johnson’s Reconstruction • Black citizenship and destroy BC • Became 14th Amendment, 1866 • 1866 Midterm elections -2/3 GOP • T. Stevens and Ch. Sumner • Moderates in majority • Military Reconstruction Act, 1867 • Reconstruction Act, 1867 (“5, 14th, Full”) • Johnson is Impeached, 1867 • Office of Tenure Act • Edwin Stanton, Sec War • Purchase of Alaska, 1867 • 15th Amendment, 1869 • No Women! • Intimidation and loopholes

  5. Impeachment Trial by Theodore R. Davis in Harpers Weekly Interesting note: Johnson did not attend but did win election as a Senator in 1874 and made an emotional return to the Senate as junior Senator from Tennessee.

  6. IV. End of Reconstruction • Civil Rights Act, 1875 • National Concerns • Panic of 1873 • Women’s Rights • Political corruption • Gilded Age • Purchase of Alaska • Compromise 1877 • 1870 ex-Confederacy back • Hayes (GOP) v. Tilden (Demo) • Impact • Decline of Ex branch • Rise of Solid South • “Invisible Empire of the South”: State Governments • Infringement of privileges • Jim Crow Laws • Lynchings • Thomas Nast, Harpers Weekly, • The disputed presidential • election returns from FL, SC, and • LA are represented by the new • Sport of football, introduced in 1876 • By the Ivy League. Until 1881, the • Ball was not passed!

  7. Oliver Howard Alexander Stephens Charles Sumner Thaddeus Stevens William Seward Freedmen’s Bureau Wade-Davis Bill 10 percent plan Moderate/radical Republicans Black Codes Sharecropping Civil Rights Act 13, 14, and 15th Amendment “Swing around the circle” Union League Reconstruction Act Ex parte Milligan Redeemers Scalawags Carpetbaggers KKK Force Acts Tenure of Office Act Seward’s Folly Vocabulary, Ch. 22

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