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RECONSTRUCTION

RECONSTRUCTION. LINCOLN’S 10% PLAN MUST ABOLISH SLAVERY AMNESTY OFFER. CONGRESS MAJORITY NO RIGHT TO VOTE OR ELECTED OFFICE TO ANY CONFEDERATE VETERAN. RECONSTRUCTION PLANS. FREEDMEN’S BUREAU. SET UP - HELP FORMER SLAVES FOOD, CLOTHING AND JOBS SCHOOLS (EVEN FOR ADULTS) MEDICAL HELP

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RECONSTRUCTION

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  1. RECONSTRUCTION

  2. LINCOLN’S 10% PLAN MUST ABOLISH SLAVERY AMNESTY OFFER CONGRESS MAJORITY NO RIGHT TO VOTE OR ELECTED OFFICE TO ANY CONFEDERATE VETERAN RECONSTRUCTION PLANS

  3. FREEDMEN’S BUREAU • SET UP - HELP FORMER SLAVES • FOOD, CLOTHING AND JOBS • SCHOOLS (EVEN FOR ADULTS) • MEDICAL HELP • POOR WHITES COULD BE HELPED AS WELL IN F.B.

  4. LINCOLN IS ASSASSINATED • April 14, 1865 • Ford’s theatre • Shot by Confederate sympathizer John Wilkes Booth • V.P. Andrew Johnson becomes President

  5. Lincoln Assassination

  6. VIOLENCE IN MEMPHIS

  7. CIVIL WAR AMENDMENTS • 13TH – FREE THE SLAVES • 14TH - CITIZENSHIP; EQUAL PROTECTION UNDER THE LAW • 15TH – AFRICAN AMERICAN MALES GET THE RIGHT TO VOTE

  8. REACTION TO AMENDMENT 13 BLACK CODES • LAWS RESTRICTING THE RIGHTS OF AFRICAN AMERICANS • AFRICAN AMERICANS NOT ALLOWED TO VOTE, SERVE ON JURIES, OWN GUNS, HOLD CERTAIN JOBS, STAY OUT LATE

  9. REACTION-AMENDMENT14 JIM CROW LAWS LAWS SEPARATING WHITES FROM AFRICAN AMERICANS IN PUBLIC PLACES

  10. REACTION-AMENDMENT 15 • POLL TAX – MUST PAY TO VOTE • LITERACY TEST – TEST PROVING THAT YOU COULD READ AND WRITE IN ORDER TO VOTE • GRANDFATHER CLAUSE – EXCUSES YOU FROM LITERACY TEST IF YOUR GRANFATHER VOTED BEFORE 1867

  11. POLL TAX DELINQUENT LIST

  12. SHARECROPPING • MANY AFRICAN AMERICANS HAD TO RESORT TO THIS AFTER THE CIVIL WAR. • THEY WOULD FARM SOMEONE ELSE’S PROPERTY TO KEEP A “SHARE” • NOT MUCH BETTER THAN SLAVERY

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