Reconstruction Themes :

1. Reconstruction Themes: • Johnson’s political blunders and Southern white resistance led to the imposition of congressional military Reconstruction on the South. • Reconstruction tried to address difficult issues of reform & racial justice in the South and did achieve some successes. • The later abandonment of Reconstruction efforts meant those reforms were unfulfilled promises. • Reconstruction also left behind a deep legacy of racial and sectional bitterness.

2. 1863 Lincoln announces 10% Reconstruction Plan 1864 Lincoln Vetoes Wade-Davis Bill 1865 Lincoln assassinated 1865 Johnson issues Reconstruction Proclamation 1865 Congress refuses to seat Southern congressmen 1865 Freedmen’s Bureau established by Congress 1865 Southern states pass Black Codes 1866 Congress passes Civil Rights Bill over AJ’s veto 1866 Congress passes 14th Amendment 1866 Candidates for Congress backed by AJ lose 1866 Ku Klux Klan founded 1867 Reconstruction Act passed by Congress 1867 Tenure of Office Act passed by Congress 1868 Johnson impeached in House & barely acquitted in Senate 1868 Johnson pardons Confederate leaders 1870 Congress passes 15th Amendment 1870-1871 Congress passes the Force Acts 1872 Freedmen’s Bureau ended 1877 Reconstruction ends in dispute over presidential election of 1876

3. Matching People & Events • H • K • C • M • B • J • O • I • F • G • E • A • L • N • D Putting Things in Order 4 – 1 – 5 – 3 – 2 Cause & Effect • D • E • J • C • I • F • G • B • A • H