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Reconstruction

Reconstruction. Mending After the Civil War. Appomattox Council. April 3, 1865 Union troops conquered the Confederate capital in Richmond April 9, 1865 union and confederate leaders met in Virginia to discuss the surrender of Confederate forces

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Reconstruction

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  1. Reconstruction Mending After the Civil War

  2. Appomattox Council • April 3, 1865 Union troops conquered the Confederate capital in Richmond • April 9, 1865 union and confederate leaders met in Virginia to discuss the surrender of Confederate forces • Lincoln sent orders from the capital which Colonel Grant carried out • 620,000 had died between both sides

  3. Terms of the Surrender • Grant monitored Lee’s soldiers and sent them home with food and 3 days rations • Officers could keep their side arms (guns) • Many leaders of the Confederacy were able to maintain their things if they swore allegiance to the Union

  4. 13th Amendment • After the Civil War was finished Lincoln felt that the only way to eliminate slavery was by an amendment. • 13th Amendment changed the constitution to remove slavery or forced labor unless as punishment for a crime

  5. Death of a president • At Fords Theatre in Washington DC • Gunman was John Wilkes Booth, a southerner sympathizer • 12 days after Booth was shot to death in a tobacco shed in Virginia • 1/3 of the population of the US came to witness the burial and mourn for the president

  6. 2 problems at hand • How to restore the confederate states into the Union • What to do with the approximate 4 million freed slaves throughout the USA • If you were president what would you do to solve this problem?

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