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Hanged for treason

What should happen to former Confederate soldiers and to those in the former Confederate government?. Hanged for treason. TREASON = The crime of betraying one's country by attempting to kill the sovereign or overthrow the government. PARDON = The act of being forgiven for an error or offense.

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Hanged for treason

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  1. What should happen to former Confederate soldiers and to those in the former Confederate government? Hanged for treason TREASON = The crime of betraying one's country by attempting to kill the sovereign or overthrow the government PARDON = The act of being forgiven for an error or offense

  2. Reconstruction SS8H6 The student will analyze the impact of the Civil War and Reconstruction on Georgia. c. Analyze the impact of Reconstruction on Georgia and other southern states, emphasizing Freedmen’s Bureau; sharecropping and tenant farming; Reconstruction plans; 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments to the constitution; Henry McNeal Turner and black legislators; and the Ku Klux Klan. EQ: How did Reconstruction affect the South, specifically Georgia?

  3. Reconstruction Reconstruction= the process of transforming and bringing back former Confederate states into the United States after the Civil War Before After

  4. Reconstruction is like reconstructive surgery! Reconstructive surgery = the use of surgery to restore the form and function of the body

  5. RECONSTRUCTION So, we struggle to put the pieces back together again… So, we struggle to put the pieces back together again… “It is more honorable to repair a wrong than persist in it.” ~ Thomas Jefferson, author of The Declaration and 3rd US President

  6. President Lincoln’s Plan • *Lincoln wanted to rebuild and return the south to the Union as soon as possible • *His plan was called the 10% plan • *“Reconstruction” would have two parts: • 1. Southerners would be pardoned after taking an oath of allegiance; • 2. When 10% of voters had taken the oath, the state could rejoin the Union and form a state government.

  7. Where does President Lincoln’s Reconstruction Plan fall on the continuum below? Hanged for treason TREASON = The crime of betraying one's country by attempting to kill the sovereign or overthrow the government PARDON = The act of being forgiven for an error or offense

  8. President Lincoln’s Plan • Lincoln’s plan to reconstruct the South was challenged by “Radical Republicans” who thought the South should be more severely punished. • The Radical Republicans wanted to make sure the freedmen retained their new rights.

  9. "Honest Abe". Freed the slaves. Held the Union together. Wise and kind. Was responsible for the winning the greatest struggle that the United States ever faced.

  10. A Life Cut Short… • Lincoln was assassinated in April 1865 during a play at Ford’s Theater by actor John Wilkes Booth. • Vice President Andrew Johnson took over as President.

  11. Vice President, Andrew Johnson,became president. • Johnson’s Plan • He continued Lincoln’s Reconstruction plan, however, he believed some more extreme measures needed to be taken, such as: • He did not allow former Confederate officers and wealthy land owners to vote. • (those with property value of over $20,000) • He also made reconciling states ratify the ThirteenthAmendment to the U.S. Constitution.

  12. THE 13TH AMMENDMENT ** Outlawed slavery ** Former Confederate states HAD to ratify in order to be “fully Reconstructed” and allowed back into the Union.

  13. President Johnson’s Plan con’t. Southern states also had to: 3. Cancel (nullify) documents saying they seceded 4. Promise not to repay money borrowed during the war. _________________________________________ Johnson named temporary governors & told them to hold new elections and create new state constitutions.

  14. Effects of President Johnson’s Plan Many Southern state constitutions did not meet minimum requirements, and President Johnson granted 13,500 special pardons. = EFFECT? Pardoned, were wealthy planters in charge before the Civil War were re-elected and in control of state government again! With these wealthy, white, Southern Democrats back in power, there is a revival of southern defiance and the creation of BLACK CODES!

  15. Black Codes • Black Codes were laws passed by former Confederate states to keep whites in power and freedmen from having the same rights as whites. • Didn’t allow African Americans: the same jobs as whites, the right to vote, the right to marry a white person, or the right to testify or serve on a jury. • Georgia’s black codes were less strict than those in other states. • In Georgia African Americans: • Could: • Buy and Sell Property • Sue people in court • Could not: • Serve as Jurors • Testify against whites in court

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