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RECONSTRUCTION AND THE RISE OF “JIM C ROW”

RECONSTRUCTION AND THE RISE OF “JIM C ROW”. R econstruction (1865-1877). Confederate General Robert E. Lee surrenders on April 9, 1865. Five days later, President Lincoln is assassinated. Reconstruction (1865-1877).

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RECONSTRUCTION AND THE RISE OF “JIM C ROW”

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  1. RECONSTRUCTION AND THE RISE OF “JIM CROW”

  2. Reconstruction (1865-1877) • Confederate General Robert E. Lee surrenders on April 9, 1865. Five days later, President Lincoln is assassinated.

  3. Reconstruction (1865-1877) • Rebuilding the country after the war and allowing Confederate states back into the Union is known as the era of *Reconstruction* and lasted from 1865 to 1877.

  4. Reconstruction (1865-1877) • *The 13th Amendment* (1865) made slavery illegal. Freedom from slavery meant rights: the right to get married, earn wages, own property, and move.

  5. Reconstruction (1865-1877) • Because the Southern economy had relied so heavily on slave labor, *Black Codes* were passed to force blacks to stay and work in the South. • Some of the Black Codes included vagrancy laws (arrested for being unemployed) and apprenticeship laws (hiring out orphans and young people).

  6. Reconstruction (1865-1877) • Union General William T. Sherman issued Special Field Order 15, which would give black families forty acres of confiscated Confederate land and the use of mules (Forty Acres and a Mule). • However, President Andrew Johnson restored confiscated land to former owners.

  7. Reconstruction (1865-1877) The 14th Amendment (1868) made African-Americans citizens, while the 15th Amendment (1870) gave citizens the right to vote.

  8. To be continued…………..

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