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Aim: How will we rebuild the South’s ruined economy and promise the rights of freed slaves?

Aim: How will we rebuild the South’s ruined economy and promise the rights of freed slaves?. Homework: Quiz on Reconstruction next class! . The years following the Civil War (1865-1877) are known as the RECONSTRUCTION PERIOD. . WARTIME RECONSTRUCTION. Lincoln’s Ten Percent Plan.

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Aim: How will we rebuild the South’s ruined economy and promise the rights of freed slaves?

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  1. Aim: How will we rebuild the South’s ruined economy and promise the rights of freed slaves? Homework: Quiz on Reconstruction next class!

  2. The years following the Civil War (1865-1877) are known as the RECONSTRUCTION PERIOD.

  3. WARTIME RECONSTRUCTION

  4. Lincoln’s Ten Percent Plan • 1. If states abolish slavery and provide an education for African Americans they will gain representation in congress. • 2. If 10% of whites take an oath to guarantee abolition they will JOIN THE UNION! • 3. Compensation guaranteed for lost property. He NEVER discussed with Congress about this!

  5. Radical Reconstructionist Lead by Thaddeus Stevens and Charles Sumner - Said the Confederates committed war crimes

  6. Wade-Davis Bill 1864 • Required 50% of voters to take an “ironclad” oath that they never voluntarily supported the Confederacy.

  7. 13th Amendment • 1865, “Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as punishment for a crime where of the party shall have been duly convicted shall exist with in the United States.”

  8. 1865, President Lincoln was assassinated by John Wilkes Boothe. Andrew Johnson becomes Presiden.t

  9. Freedman’s Bureau 1866 • Passed by congress to help freed slaves • Helped find them jobs, have food, clothing, shelter, and start and education.

  10. Freedman’s Bureau seen through the South’s eyes.

  11. Freedman Bureau school

  12. Presidential Reconstruction

  13. Johnson’s Reconstruction Plan • 1. pardon southerners who took the oath • 2. Recognized new state governments • 3. Appointed temporary governors to remaining 7 states

  14. What happens next… • Congress rejects plan and refuses to seat newly elected Southern congressman. South aims to restore old ways: • Many limited vote to white men • Southern states enforce the BLACK CODES

  15. Black Codes • Guarantee stable labor supply now that blacks were emancipated • Restore old race relations • Make African Americans Sharecroppers. Sharecropper: tenant housing for work

  16. Congress passes bill to allow freedman’s bureau to continueJohnson VETOS the BillCongress sought to overturn the Black Codes by Passing the Civil Rights Act 1866

  17. Johnson used his veto power to block the law.

  18. Radical Reconstruction

  19. 14th Amendment • Equality for all citizens • Southern states would lose seats in the house if they did not allow Blacks to vote

  20. IMPEACHMENT due to: Power struggle between Congress and the President

  21. 15th Amendment 14th And 15th Amendments Still contain LOOPHOLES. • 1868- Ulysses S. Grant is president: forbidding states from denying suffrage on the grounds of race, color, or previous servitude.

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