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Reconstruction Amendments..

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Reconstruction Amendments..

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  1. This time period after the Civil War in American History is called ______________________________1865-1877Defined as the period when __________________________________________________________________________________________. Started by Lincoln but he was assassinated April 14, 1865, his VP Andrew Johnson would take over

  2. Reconstruction Amendments.. • 13th: ______________________________________ • 14th: overruled Dred v. Scott (1857) which had stated black people could not be citizens. ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ • 15th: ______________________________________________________________________________________

  3. Major Questions following the war: • How to re-build the South? • How to bring Southern states back into the United States? • How to bring former slaves into the United States as free men and women?

  4. Southern Cities like Richmond were ruined 40% of livestock were killed 50% of farm machinery was destroyed

  5. Should the Southern Confederate states be punished for starting the war? What would African American life be like now in the South? (4 million African Americans were now freedmen but had no money or education)

  6. The Presidential Plan • _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ • This allowed any past Confederate (Southern) males to hold office and …

  7. …restore their old way of life.

  8. Black Codes Local sheriffs used Black Codes as an excuse to show white superiority. • ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________ • Forced freedmen to work plantations for little money.

  9. White reaction in the South • _______________________________________________________________________________________________ • One group formed in 1866 was the ______________________________________. The KKK terrorized African Americans and whites who supported equality.

  10. Government reaction • Many Northerners and Radical Republicans in Congress wanted to pass laws to make sure all people had equality. • So they passed the _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ • BUT…

  11. Congress fought back passing the 14th Amendment giving all Americans equal protection under the law. Then 2 years later the 15th Amendment gave ________________________________________________________________. President Andrew Johnson ___________ it.

  12. Meanwhile in the South… Supporters of African American rights were labeled as Scalawags or scoundrels

  13. Northerners moved to the South People from the North moved to the South to join the Scalawags. They were called ___________________________and they wanted to rebuild the South, change State Governments, create schools, and end the law that required you to own property to vote and hold office.

  14. Progress… • It became illegal in the South for railroads, hotels, and any public facilities to ____________________________________________________________ • All Black Codes were thrown out. • But…Still had ___________________

  15. The fight for land… • Owning land was a symbol of freedom to freedmen in the rural South. • But, landowners would not sell to African Americans since ____________________________________________________________

  16. SO • Many became ______________________________ instead of working for money farmers worked for a share in the landowners’ crop. • Freedmen and southern farmers were very poor.

  17. Violence in the South • ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ • Only a small number of whites participated with them, but others showed support or just turned away.

  18. Should the US Army step in?Wasn’t the Civil War over? • State Governments tried to stop the violence by sending in troops.

  19. The tide turns against Reconstruction When the Supreme Court rules in the Slaughterhouse cases that _____________________________________________________________ The troops left the South with no protection.

  20. Reconstruction ended (Exit slip) What is one good thing and bad thing that this time period left behind?

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