Civil War And Reconstruction Breaking Up a Nation and Trying to Mend It Back Together

Civil War – Southern States Leave Lincoln Gets Elected Seven southern states seceded from the Union in protest against the election winner He had not won any votes from the southern states

Civil War North (Union-blue) fights the South (Confederacy-gray) Lincoln re-elected North wins! April 9th or May 10th, 1865 (depends on who you ask) On April 14, 1865, President Lincoln was assassinated at Ford’s Theater in Washington by John Wilkes Booth. South happy at first…until they realize the new President, Johnson, wants to punish them…maybe?

http://www.bartleby.com/124/pres32.html With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds, to care for him who shall have borne the battle and for his widow and his orphan, to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves and with all nations.

After the Civil War came an era referred to as the Reconstruction After the Civil War came an era referred to as the Reconstruction. From 1865–1877 the US went through a period of readjustment. At the end of the Civil War, the defeated South was a ruined land. The physical destruction was tremendous, and the old social and economic order founded on slavery had collapsed completely, with nothing to replace it. The 11 Confederate states somehow had to be restored to their positions in the Union, and the role of the emancipated slaves in Southern society had to be defined.

What would you do? Make a plan for Reconstruction.

Key Questions 1. How do we bring the South back into the Union? 4. What branch of government should control the process of Reconstruction? 2. How do we rebuild the South after its destruction during the war? 3. How do we integrate and protect newly- emancipated black freedmen?

The Plans Required 10 percent of voters in state to swear allegiance Lincoln--unique Required 10 percent of voters in state to swear allegiance   - Did not require voting rights for black Americans Johnson--unique Did not require 10 percent allegiance - Required states to void secession, abolish slavery, and ratify the Thirteenth Amendment Both Plans Shared Offered pardons to Southerners except Confederate leaders - Permitted States to hold constitutional conventions - Permitted states to resume full participation in the Union

Reconstruction The Good Free public education for African-Americans and whites in the South Most of the states of the former Confederacy, in order to regain admission to the Union, were required to ratify the Fourteenth Amendment (citizenship) The innovation had the greatest impact on westward migration immediately after the Civil War transcontinental railroad At the end of the Civil War, industry in the United States was booming as a result of war profits and business leadership

The Good The Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution officially abolished and continues to prohibit slavery to this day. The Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution declared that all persons born or naturalized in the United States are American citizens including African Americans. The Fifteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution prohibits each government in the United States from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's race, color, or previous condition of servitude.

Reconstruction Con’t The Bad As a result of the Civil War and Reconstruction, the South would finish the 19th century and enter the 20th century as economically depressed The desire to establish military posts contributed to the forced removal of Native Americans from the Great Plains from 1867 to 1890

Reconstruction Con’t The Ugly Southern state governments tried to weaken President Johnson’s Reconstruction plan by passing black codes Southern states were allowed to make their own decisions about segregation legislation therefore the 14th amendment was not successful implemented Ku Klux Klan affect the South because it helped the reverse Reconstruction in the South