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Sectional Healing: Reconstruction

Sectional Healing: Reconstruction. Honors U.S. History. What was Reconstruction?. The concept of readmitting the former Confederate States back into the Union Questions exist for how to readmit them Should they be punished? Should they be allowed to exist as states?

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Sectional Healing: Reconstruction

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  1. Sectional Healing: Reconstruction Honors U.S. History

  2. What was Reconstruction? • The concept of readmitting the former Confederate States back into the Union • Questions exist for how to readmit them • Should they be punished? • Should they be allowed to exist as states? • Who decided Reconstruction policies?

  3. Reconstruction After Lincoln • Lincoln’s assassination (April 15, 1865) opens the door for Andrew Johnson • Vetoes Civil Rights legislation • Recognized old southern state governments • Those governments pass “Black Codes” • “Won the war but lost the peace”

  4. Legislation • Reconstruction Acts (1867) • South was divided into five military districts • Guarantee land ownership for African-Americans (failed) • Mass arrests of former Confederates (failed) • 15th Amendment • Right to vote can’t be denied based on race • Gender, however… • Civil Rights Acts (1875) • Guaranteed equal treatment in public places

  5. Was It Successful? • African-Americans won elections • Schools for A-A’s were established • HBCs are established • I.E. Morehouse and Howard • Sharecropping established • Land was rented, seed and tools were purchased • Paid back with yield • “A cycle of debt”

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