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Reconstruction

Reconstruction. Ch 2.5. Tuesday, February 14, 2012. Daily goal: Understand the failures of Reconstruction and what African American life was like after it ended. Differentiate between the 3 different plans for Reconstruction. Reconstruction. Rebuilding the nation after the Civil War.

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Reconstruction

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  1. Reconstruction Ch 2.5

  2. Tuesday, February 14, 2012 • Daily goal: Understand the failures of Reconstruction and what African American life was like after it ended. Differentiate between the 3 different plans for Reconstruction.

  3. Reconstruction • Rebuilding the nation after the Civil War. • 3 different plans: • Pres Lincoln’s • Pres Johnson’s • Radical Republican’s

  4. So did Lincoln free the Slaves?

  5. 13th Amendment • Permanently banned slavery in the US.

  6. Lincoln’s Plan • General amnesty to all Southerners who took an oath of loyalty to the US. • States could form new govs when 10% took loyalty oath. • Former Confederates could not join new gov’t.

  7. freedmen • Thousands of former slaves who needed food and shelter. • Congress established the Freedmen’s Bureau to help former slaves find jobs, food and shelter.

  8. PRESIDENT LINCOLN ASSASSINATED APRIL 14, 1865 MURDERED BY JOHN WILKES BOOTH, A LOYAL CONFEDERATE SOUTHERNER WHO BELIEVED THAT HE WAS AVENGING THE SOUTH WHEN HE ASSASSINATED THE PRESIDENT

  9. Johnson’s Plan • Andrew Johnson became Pres when Lincoln died and he sympathized with the South. • Similar to Lincoln’s plan, but allowed former Confederates back into gov’t and did not protect freed slaves’ rights.

  10. Black Codes • Laws passed in the South which limited the rights of African Americans and kept them nearly as slaves.

  11. MAP OF 5 MILITARY DISTRICTS

  12. Radical Republican’s plan • The Military Reconstruction Act split the South into 5 military districts occupied by the Union Army. • Army had orders to protect the rights of freed African Americans.

  13. 14th Amendment • Guaranteed citizenship to all persons born in the US declared that no state could deprive any person of life, liberty or property without “due process of law.”

  14. 15th Amendment • The right to vote shall not be denied on account of race, color or previous condition of servitude.

  15. What’s with the white sheets?

  16. KKK • Terrorized African Americans and any whites who helped them. • Threatened African Americans with violence if they voted or tried to use their new freedoms.

  17. Reconstruction ends • Compromise of 1877 pulled the Union troops out of the South ending Reconstruction. • What good are laws when no one enforces them?

  18. Back to the plantations • Most African Americans couldn’t afford to buy land. • Some became tenant farmers paying rent for the land they farmed. • Others became sharecroppers who paid rent on the land with a share of their crops. • The rent was so high they were constantly in debt and tied to the land.

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