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The End of the Civil War. Reconstruction and Reunification Learning Target: I can explain the post war challenges facing the nation. Set Questions:. What does the word emancipate mean? How was the South’s economy and infrastructure affected by the war?
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The End of the Civil War Reconstruction and Reunification Learning Target: I can explain the post war challenges facing the nation.
Set Questions: • What does the word emancipate mean? • How was the South’s economy and infrastructure affected by the war? • What side did African Americans troops fight in large numbers for? • After the First Battle of Bull Run both sides realized what? • Who is remembered for his march to the sea? • Due to the Civil War did the Confederate States gain independence?
The War Ends • Lee surrenders to Grant • Appomattox Court House – 4/29/1865 “The war is over, the rebels are our countrymen again.” -Ulysses S Grant
To Continue????? • Some Southern leaders want to continue the war • Lee decided against this • Why did the South lose: • Factories • Manpower • Railroads
The War’s Toll • Around 620,000 Americans died • 260,000 Confederacy • 360,000 Union • 37,000 African Americans
Question • How could the North have won if it suffered so many more casualties? • Higher Population • Immigration
The War’s Toll • The South was DEVASTATED • Factories and Cities were burned • Railroad tracks and farms were destroyed • Working age men were killed or wounded
Lincoln’s Plan • Lincoln wanted a “Soft Policy” towards the South • Wants to win over Southerners and their leaders • Ten Percent Plan • As soon as 10% of the State’s voters swore an oath of loyalty to the Federal Government that state could again send representatives to congress
Lincoln’s Assassination • Assassinated April 14, 1865 at Ford’s Theatre in Washington D.C. by • John Wilkes Booth
The Freedmen’s Bureau • Created by Congress in 1865 • Help emergency relief for freed slaves • Education • Housing • Jobs
The Thirteenth Amendment • Approved January 1865 • Bans both slavery and all kinds of forced labor • Throughout the ENTIRE nation • Question: What is the difference between the 13th amendment and the Emancipation Proclamation? • 13th Amendment ends slavery everywhere in the country • Emancipation Proclamation ends slavery only in the rebelling states
The Fourteenth Amendment • Granted Citizenship to ALL people born or naturalized in the United States • Why did I capitalize ALL? • This now includes African Americans. • What states would try to take citizenship rights away and from whom? • The South was trying to stop African Americans from becoming citizens.
The Fifteenth Amendment • Prohibits all states from denying voting rights on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude. • Why would southern states try to block African Americans from voting? • They did not want the African American voters from electing officials that would help them.
Problems in the South • Even after the 13th and 14th amendment racial discrimination persisted • Segregation in public places and schools
The Klu Klux Klan • The KKK and other radical groups start up in the South • Many Southern whites are appalled at now being “equal” to African Americans in the eyes of the law. • These groups tried to intimidate African Americans from voting and taking an active role in public life.
The Civil Rights Movement • Start in the 1950’s by prominent African American social leaders. • Civil Disobedience • Marches • Sit Ins • Rosa Parks
