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Do Now. The Civil War affected the northern economy by causing a severe depression increasing unemployment rates decreasing demand for agricultural products stimulating industrialization. Do Now. The Civil War affected the northern economy by causing a severe depression

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  1. Do Now The Civil War affected the northern economy by causing a severe depression increasing unemployment rates decreasing demand for agricultural products stimulating industrialization

  2. Do Now The Civil War affected the northern economy by causing a severe depression increasing unemployment rates decreasing demand for agricultural products stimulating industrialization

  3. How was the Embittered South brought back into the Union?

  4. Lincoln’s Assassination - 1865 • Assassinated at Ford’s Theater (D.C.) • John Wilkes Booth – Confederate sympathizer

  5. John Wilkes Booth

  6. War’s Aftermath • Terrible toll on South • Railroads/factories/cities/farmlands destroyed • Work animals & livestock killed • 4 million Africans freed • 620,000 human losses • $15 billion in losses

  7. Reconstruction • 1865-1877 • Rebuilding • RE-ESTABLISH SOUTHERN STATES INTO THE UNION • Required rebuilding of nations economy & government • 3 Plans: - Lincoln - Johnson - Radical Republican Questions to be answered… • Conditions for Southern States to return to the Union and assume further rights? • Which branch of government should determine conditions for South? • What POLITICAL, ECONOMIC, SOCIAL rights should be given to African Americans

  8. Lincoln’s Reconstruction • aka 10% Plan • South never seceded • Rebellion was work of few Radicals • Reconstruction task of President (use of pardon) • LENIENCY regain South’s loyalty 10 % PLAN: • All Southerners pardoned upon taking an oath of allegiance to the Union (except high military officials and government leaders) • 10% of voters in state took oath permitted to form legal state government (rewrite Constitution to eliminate slavery)

  9. Wade-Davis Bill (1864) • Introduced by 2 Radical Republicans, Ohio Senator Benjamin F. Wade & Maryland Representative Henry Winter Davis • Republicans objected Lincoln’s 10% Plan • Required 50% of voters of voters of a state to take a loyalty oath & permitted only non Confederates to vote for a new state Constitution • LINCOLN REFUSED TO SIGN BILL (pocket veto) SenatorBenjaminWade(R-OH) CongressmanHenryW. Davis(R-MD)

  10. President Andrew Johnson • Jacksonian Democrat • Anti-Aristocrat • White Supremacist • Agreed with Lincolnthat states had neverlegally left the Union. “Damn the negroes! I am fighting these traitorous aristocrats, their masters!” ~Johnson

  11. Johnson’s Reconstruction • Andrew Johnson took over the Presidency after Lincoln’s assassination • Attempted to continue Lincoln’s Reconstruction Plan PLAN: • Pardoned most Southerners who pledged allegiance to the Union • Abolish slavery • Reject Confederate debt • Void secession • RATIFICATION (approval) OF THE 13TH AMENDMENT –ABOLISH SLAVERY

  12. 13th Amendment • Ratified in December, 1865. • “Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States or any place subject to their jurisdiction.” • Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.

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