Chapter 4 RECONSTRUCTION AND THE NEW SOUTH The American Nation In the Modern Era 4/16/2017 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

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?

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

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

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

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

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