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Warm Up Vocab

Warm Up Vocab. Reconstruction The process of restoring relations with Confederate states. Amnesty an official pardon/forgiveness for people who have been convicted of political offenses. Amendment A formal or official change made to a law Radical

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Warm Up Vocab

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  1. Warm Up Vocab • Reconstruction • The process of restoring relations with Confederate states. • Amnesty • an official pardon/forgiveness for people who have been convicted of political offenses. • Amendment • A formal or official change made to a law • Radical • Politician who focuses on altering society through drastic changes

  2. Topic 4: The Melting Pot How did inequality continue to exist after the Civil War and Reconstruction Era?

  3. 4A: Reconstruction Charleston, South Carolina

  4. After the War • 6 days after the South surrendered, Lincoln is assassinated. (Apr. 15, 1865) • Lincoln’s plan for reconstruction • “Ten Percent Plan” • 13th Amendment • Freedmen’s Bureau

  5. After the War • Vice President Johnson becomes president • President Johnson’s Plan • Pledge loyalty get amnesty • By December 1865, Johnson declared Reconstruction OVER!

  6. Problems • Loyalty meant nothing • Southerners promised loyalty to the union but continued their old ways • Johnson was too light on the South, their word meant nothing. • Black codes passed in the South • laws that severely restricted the rights of newly freed African Americans.

  7. Radical Republicans • Reversed Johnson’s plan • Occupied the South via the military • Make drastic changes in the South before readmitting them

  8. Radical Republicans • “Strip the proud nobility of their bloated estates, reduce them to a level with plain republicans, send forth to labor, and teach their children to enter the workshops or handle the plow, and you will thus humble proud traitors. – Thaddeus Stevens

  9. Radical Republicans • Reverse’s Johnson and passes legislation to help black Americans in the South • 13th Amendment • Civil Rights Act • 14th Amendment • Enforcement Act • 15th Amendment • As a row, read about each of these acts in your book (p 186) • Come up with a solid definition of at least 2 sentences. • Next to your column draw a small comic to represent the act.

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