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Reconstruction

Reconstruction. Unit 4, Lesson 5. Essential Idea. Reconstruction was a time of political, economic, and social changes for both the North and the South. . Initial Post-Civil War Issues. What will happen to the South? Ex-Confederates/CSA states Southern economy Southern freedmen .

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Reconstruction

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  1. Reconstruction Unit 4, Lesson 5

  2. Essential Idea • Reconstruction was a time of political, economic, and social changes for both the North and the South.

  3. Initial Post-Civil War Issues • What will happen to the South? • Ex-Confederates/CSA states • Southern economy • Southern freedmen

  4. Lincoln’s Reconstruction Plan • Proclamation of Amnesty and Reconstruction/“10% Plan” (1863) • Wade-Davis Bill (1864) • Lincoln’s assassination

  5. Freedmen • 13th Amendment (ratified 1865) • Black Reactions • White Reactions

  6. Freedmen • Freedmen’s Bureau • Carpetbaggers • Scalawags

  7. Andrew Johnson • Johnson’s background • “10% plus” • Southern governments by 1865 • Black codes • Johnson’s Leniency

  8. Johnson vs. Congress • Radical Republicans • Southern Congressmen barred • Civil Rights Act of 1866 • Johnson’s veto • Congress overrides veto • Tension in Congress • Joint Committee Report on Reconstruction

  9. The 14th Amendment • 14th Amendment (ratified 1868) • Terms • 14th Amendment

  10. Radical Republicans Gain More Power • Midterm Election of 1866 • Johnson’s “swing around the circle” • Radical Republicans • Thaddeus Stevens • Charles Sumner

  11. Radical Republican Actions in 1867 • Military Reconstruction Act • Command of Army Act • Tenure of Office Act

  12. Andrew Johnson’s Impeachment • Edwin Stanton fired • Johnson impeached • Johnson’s Impeachment • Significance of verdict

  13. Election of 1868 • Ulysses S. Grant • “Waving the bloody shirt” • Impact of Freedmen • Results

  14. The 15th Amendment • Fifteenth Amendment (ratified 1870) • Black political participation • Hiram Revels • White reaction

  15. Southern Reaction to Black Equality • Ku Klux Klan • “Invisible Empire” • Redeemers • The KKK • The “KKK Act” (Force Acts of 1870/1871) • Grant vs. the Klan

  16. What was Behind the Masks?

  17. Civil Rights Limited • Civil Rights Act of 1875 • The Civil Rights Cases (1883)

  18. What about Women? • Women before and during Civil War • Woman’s Loyal League • Reaction to 14th and 15th Amendments

  19. The North During Reconstruction • Political corruption • Spoils system • Democratic political machines • Boss Tweed vs. Thomas Nast

  20. Corruption in the Grant Administration • Jay Gould and James Fisk • Credit Mobilier scandal (1872) • Whiskey Ring scandal (1874-1875) • Indian Ring scandal (1876) • Corruptible?

  21. Election of 1872 • Liberal Republicans • Horace Greeley • “Waving the bloody shirt” again • Results

  22. Panic of 1873 • Causes • Create inflation? • Hard-money Republicans

  23. The “Crime of ’73” • Bimetallism • Coinage Act of 1873 • “Crime of ’73” • Future implications

  24. Election of 1876 • Republican support wanes • Panic of 1873 • Corruption (“Grantism”) • Monetary issues • Democratic Party grows • Samuel Tilden (Democrat) • Rutherford B. Hayes (Republican) • Initial results

  25. Compromise of 1877 • Compromise of 1877 • Terms • Impact • Reconstruction Ends

  26. Blacks Adjust to Freedom • Black communities • Churches and Schools

  27. The Old South is “Redeemed” • Black disenfranchisement • Literacy tests • Poll taxes • Grandfather clause

  28. Jim Crow is Born • Segregation • Jim Crow laws • Plessy v. Ferguson (1896) • “Separate but equal” • Plessy and the Rise of Jim Crow

  29. A New From of Servitude • Sharecropping • Tenant farming • “Slavery without the chains” • “Exodusters” • The Exodusters

  30. Redemption of the South • The South is “redeemed” • Status for blacks? • Reconstruction: Success or Failure? • A Failed Revolution?

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