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The Reconstruction Period 1865-1877

The Reconstruction Period 1865-1877. Reconstruction . What is Reconstruction? Write 4-5 observations from the video. Reconstruction Begins. Reconstruction- process of Fed. To RE-admit former Confederate states. After the Civil War, debate… How to bring back the South.

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The Reconstruction Period 1865-1877

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  1. The Reconstruction Period1865-1877

  2. Reconstruction • What is Reconstruction? • Write 4-5 observations from the video.

  3. Reconstruction Begins • Reconstruction-process of Fed. To RE-admit former Confederate states. • After the Civil War, debate… • How to bring back the South. • What to do with freed slaves. • Could the Southern economy survive without slavery?

  4. From Lincoln to Johnson • Lincoln assassinated at Ford’s Theatre 1865. • VP Johnson takes office, Southern Democrat and slaveholder • Stubborn and uncompromising, continued Lincoln’s policies

  5. Who’s Involved? • Radical Republicans: create new order in the south, full citizenship for former slaves. • Freedmen’s Bureau: set up schools and hospitals for freed slaves, distributed food and clothing.

  6. “Reconstruction Amendments” • 13th Amendment: officially outlaws slavery in all states. • 14th Amendment: all people born in the United States are citizens, have the same rights. “Equal protection under law” • 15th Amendment: Cannot deny the right to vote based on race, color or previous servitude.

  7. Southern Response • Jim Crow Laws: enforced segregation. • Examples… • Plessy v. Ferguson: Supreme court upholds Jim Crow “separate but equal” • Prevented blacks from voting with literacy tests, grandfather clauses • Scare tactics, KKK

  8. Remembering Reconstruction • Tonight, you’ll be asked what you know about the Reconstruction Era. You will tell your parents/friend/grandma that it was…(use your notes).

  9. Radical Reconstruction South divided into 5 military districts to supervise Reconstruction.

  10. Radical Reconstruction • Southern voters choose new state reps. • Active confederates no-vote unless they pledge loyalty. • Republicans rule state legislatures. • “Scalawags”-poor white farmers • “Carpetbaggers”-white Northerners who’ve come to the South. • “Freemen”-African-American men.

  11. New State Legislatures

  12. Johnson Impeached • Johnson fought many reforms of Republican congress • Vetoed freedmen’s bureau and Civil Rights Act (Congress able to override) • Congress created the “Tenure of Office Act”. • Pres. cannot fire gvt. officials without permission • Johnson fires his Secretary of War, HofR voted to impeach • Johnson acquitted by a single vote

  13. Hardships of former slaves • Former slaves leave plantations-reunite with family. • Rumor-Freemen will get “40 acres and a mule” • Congress votes against. Freedom and Voting Rights were enough.

  14. Sharecropping • Many returned to work on plantations as “sharecroppers” • Ended up in debt to landowners, was often de-facto slavery

  15. Sharecropping Explained

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