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Extensive Legislation Passed During War Without the South in Congress

Extensive Legislation Passed During War Without the South in Congress. 1861 – Morrill Tariff Act 1862 – Homestead Act 1862 – Legal Tender Act - greenbacks 1862 – Morrill Land Grant Act 1862 – Pacific Railway Act 1863 – Emancipation Proclamation (exec order) (1/1/1863)

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Extensive Legislation Passed During War Without the South in Congress

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  1. Extensive Legislation Passed During WarWithout the South in Congress 1861 – Morrill Tariff Act 1862 – Homestead Act 1862 – Legal Tender Act - greenbacks 1862 – Morrill Land Grant Act 1862 – Pacific Railway Act 1863 – Emancipation Proclamation (exec order) (1/1/1863) 1863 – National Banking Act 1865 – 13th Amendment to Constitution

  2. Reconstruction1863-1877 “Damn the Negroes, I am fighting those traitorous aristocrats.” Andrew Johnson, 1863 Reconstruction was… “the last great crusade of the nineteenth century romantic reformers.” - Kenneth Stampp, 1965 With images from Harper’s Weekly

  3. Thomas Nast in Harper’s Weekly : The Surrender at Appomattox, (Palm Sunday April 9, 1865)

  4. Johns Wilkes Booth Changed Everything April 14, 1865

  5. What to do? • Penalties? • State Re-admittance? • Trials? • Soldiers? • Government? • Banking/Finance? • Freedmen? Harper’s Weekly August, 1865

  6. Radical Republicans Their Plan versus Lincoln’s 10% Moderate Plan

  7. Reconstruction: Using the historians’ words as a starting point… • Successes • Failures

  8. Amending the Constitution • 14th : What did it provide for? • Why is it so significant? • Who? • Radicals • Ultra Radicals

  9. Reconstruction Acts • 1867 • 1868 Modification • First readmissions • The sense of injustice: view from both sides (from Reconstruction: The 2nd Civil War)

  10. The Impeachment of A President

  11. 1868 Elections

  12. Republicans’ motives ? • Pro-business Republicans in ascendancy • Political advantages • Social Issues • Union Leagues • Freedman’s Bureau • Schools founded • Fisk School (Nashville) • Hampton Institute (Virginia) • Howard Normal and Theological Institute (Wash.)

  13. How did the end of slavery affect the economy and changes in labor relations? Reconstruction: A 2nd Civil War Reconstruction: “Negor Rule” and Free Labor

  14. 1900 Sharecropping emerges, black and white

  15. Election of 1872 Grant: The Era of Good Stealings

  16. RR Scandal: Credit MobilierScandal breaks 1872 Liberal Republicans nominate Greeley RR Scandal: Credit Mobilier ‘73

  17. Reconstruction Ended as Whites Relaxed • As the years went on, why was the North becoming more unwilling to intervene in black affairs in the South? • What was the final chapter of Reconstruction in 1876-77?

  18. “Redeeming the South” Meant Restoring Traditional White Democrat Rule • Poll taxes • Literacy tests • Grandfather clauses

  19. Years After

  20. 1950s

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