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USI.10 RECONSTRUCTION

USI.10 RECONSTRUCTION. USI.10A Identify the provisions of the 13 th , 14 th , & 15 th Amendments to the Constitution of the U.S. and their impact on the expansion of freedom in America. USI.10B Describe the impact of Reconstruction on policies on the South. USI.10 RECONSTRUCTION PERIOD.

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USI.10 RECONSTRUCTION

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  1. USI.10 RECONSTRUCTION USI.10A Identify the provisions of the 13th, 14th, & 15th Amendments to the Constitution of the U.S. and their impact on the expansion of freedom in America. USI.10B Describe the impact of Reconstruction on policies on the South.

  2. USI.10 RECONSTRUCTIONPERIOD 1865 - 1877 “I Will Survive” (5)

  3. LINCOLN’S 10% PLAN • The South has suffered enough. • Allow states to re-enter the Union with only 10% swearing allegiance to the United States. • Died before he could carry it out.

  4. President Johnson’s Plan • Followed Lincoln’s lead and tried to make the Reconstruction Period quick and painless. • Problem: He was from TN (a Southern state). • Impeached; not guilty by one vote

  5. Johnson’s Impeachment • Radical Republican Congress passed the “Tenure of Office Act” which made it illegal to fire anyone without Congress’ permission. • President Johnson fired Edwin M. Stanton, a Cabinet member. • House of Representatives passed a Bill of Impeachment. • Senate tried President Johnson. • He was found “Not Guilty” by one vote and remained President until the end of his term.

  6. Johnson’s Plan (details) • States had to swear an Oath of Allegiance to the U.S. • States had to ratify (approve) the 13th Amendment freeing the slaves. • He pardoned officers. • He favored States’ Rights as to allowing Freedmen to vote. • He did not support the Freedman’s Bureau.

  7. Radical Republican PlanCongress’ Plan • Supported the Freedman’s Bureau • Supported the Civil Rights Act of 1866 outlawing Black Codes • States had to pass the 13th, 14th, & 15th Amendments to rejoin the Union • Divide the South into 5 military Districts. • Support for equal rights for African Americans.

  8. FREEDMAN’S BUREAU • Created schools • Created hospitals • Created industrial institutes • Created teacher-training centers • Distributed food and clothing “I’ll Be There” (2)

  9. RECONSTRUCTION AMENDMENTS • 13TH Amendment – banned slavery in the U.S. and any of its territories. • 14th Amendment – granted citizenship to all persons born in the U.S. (defined citizenship) • 15th Amendment – gave all male citizens the right to vote.

  10. Who are These People? • Scalawags • Carpetbaggers • Freedmen • Fugitives • Radical Republicans • Sharecroppers • Tenant farmers • Jim Crow “Looking for Love” (5)

  11. SCALAWAG • A Southerner who supported the North during the Civil War • Considered a traitor by the other Southerners.

  12. CARPETBAGGER • A Northerner who went South after the Civil War to make money or get rich quick. • Despised by the Southerners.

  13. FREEDMAN • A freed slave after the Civil War. • He had nothing but the clothes on his/her back. • Freedman’s Bureau was created to help them (education, jobs, food, etc.). • Discriminated against by Southerners who blamed them for the war.

  14. FUGITIVES • People who fled either North to the cities for work or to the West to escape discrimination. • Most of the fugitives were ex-slaves (freedmen). • Also poor whites who had lost everything in the war.

  15. RADICAL REPUBLICANS • Members of Congress (from Northern states only) who wanted the South to pay for the Civil War. • Thaddeus Stevens was one of the leaders. • Johnson was impeached because he fired Edwin M. Stanton (Cabinet member) who was a Radical Republican.

  16. SHARECROPPERS • Freedmen became sharecroppers since they owned no land and had no money to supply seeds for a crop. • Landowners received most of the crop and the sharecroppers received a place to stay and some of the crop that they worked to raise. • They usually ended up owing the land-owner money at the end of the harvest. (debt) “In the Ghetto” (2)

  17. TENANT FARMERS • People (mostly freedmen) who lived on a farm and worked for the owner in order to have a place to stay and to get food. • Poor farmers who worked very hard to survive.

  18. JIM CROW • Not a real person. • Laws that were passed to control the Freedmen (ex-slaves). • Segregation laws passed in most formerly Confederate States. “Jimmy Crackcorn” (1)

  19. CIVIL RIGHTS ACT OF 1866 • Gave equal rights to African Americans. • When Reconstruction ended in 1877 most of the rights were lost until the 1960’s and Reverend Martin Luther King’s Civil Rights Movement. “Let My People Go” (1)

  20. Voting Problems for Freedmen • “Grandfather Clause” – blacks could vote if their grandfathers had voted. • Poll tax – everyone had to pay to vote; blacks had no money to pay. • Literacy tests – people could vote, if they could pass a test to prove literacy. • KKK (Ku Klux Klan) – organization formed by Nathan Bedford Forrest to keep blacks under control; cruel and used “fear” as a weapon.

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