1. Chapter 4 RECONSTRUCTION AND THE NEW SOUTH
The American Nation In the Modern Era
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Chapter 4 RECONSTRUCTION AND THE NEW SOUTH
Section 1: Presidential Reconstruction
Section 2: Congressional Reconstruction
Section 3: Reconstruction in the South
Section 4: The New South
CHAPTER 4--Reconstruction and the New South

2. Objectives: Section 1: Presidential Reconstruction
What hopes and expectations did African Americans in the South have for their lives as freedpeople?
How did President Lincoln and Congress differ over plans for Reconstruction?
How did President Johnson’s programs benefit former Confederates?
How did the Black Codes affect freedpeople?

3. African Americans Section 1: Presidential Reconstruction
wished to establish churches and schools
hoped to legalize marriages
hoped to find family members who had been sold away
desired ownership of land
expected basic human rights

4. Lincoln Section 1: Presidential Reconstruction
wanted to abolish slavery
wanted to give amnesty to most southerners
wished to allow rebel states to rejoin the Union when ten percent of residents who had voted in 1860 pledged loyalty to the Union

5. Congress Section 1: Presidential Reconstruction
wanted to abolish slavery
wanted to delay Reconstruction until a majority of each state’s white males took a loyalty oath

6. President Johnson’s programs
Section 1: Presidential Reconstruction
President Johnson’s programs
gave blanket pardons for most rebels
gave easy terms for readmission into the Union: states had to nullify their acts of secession, abolish slavery, and refuse to pay war debts

7. The Black Codes Section 1: Presidential Reconstruction
tried to deprive freedpeople of equality
re-established white control over African American labor