1. Reconstruction Era

2. Unit Objectives
1. Identify and explain the major problems that needed to be fixed in the US following the Civil War.
2. Analyze how these problems were addressed by the government and assess how successful these problems were solved
3. Examine the treatment of newly freed slaves in the South and ways in which white southerners attempted to keep African-Americans from gaining equal rights
4. Predict how the Reconstruction Era could have led to a growth in US industry and business

3. Reconstruction What is it? Define. What needed to be reconstructed?
Rebuilding

4. Reconstruction
Potential Problems/ Issues that need to be addressed during this period?

5. Issues to be Addressed During Reconstruction
1. What will be the punishments given to the seceded Southern States before they are let back into the Union?
2. Which branch of the government will be in charge of making laws and handing punishments out during Recon.?
3. What can the country do to help the newly freed slaves adjust into society?
4. How can the country make the Southern economy healthy again?

6. Lincoln’s 10% Plan
Southern states required to take a loyalty oath and add constitutional amendment banning slavery
Promise of troop occupation until passage in southern states
Rejected

7. Readmission of Southern States
Reconstruction Act of 1867
States divided into 5 military districts under the control of the President
Required to rewrite state constitutions and pass 14th Amendment
All but 4 states readmitted by 1870
Georgia, Miss, Texas, Virginia

9. Lincoln’s Assassination
April 1865
Ford’s Theater by John Wilkes Booth
Part of a larger conspiracy
Andrew Johnson becomes President
Effects on the US population?

10. Lincoln Conspirators Mary Surratt Lewis Powell David Herald
John Wilkes Booth
Mary Surratt
Lewis Powell
David Herald
George Atzerodt
Samuel Mudd

12. Was Lincoln Healthy?
Pre-President
After being Shot

13. Freedman Bureau
Organization to provide means of living (clothes, food, education, housing) to both black and white refugees in the south
Enacted 1865
Abolished in 1872

15. Black Codes
Laws passed by Southern states to limit rights of the new black citizens
An attempt to keep blacks as secondary citizens and limit work and wage opportunities
Mississippi and SC first to enact laws in 1865

16. Civil War Amendments 13th Amendment Bans Slavery 14th Amendment
Equality under the law for all citizens
15th Amendment
Black right to vote
Enforcement Act 1870
Intimidation to stop voting is illegal

18. Southern Politics
Thousands of blacks registered to vote following 14th and 15th Amend.
1st black Senator- Hiram Revels (Mississ.)
Northern CW hero, Ulysses S Grant elected president in 1870

19. Social Reforms Segregation
AA headed to southern cities for job opportunities, better schools and churches
Introduction of the Klu Klux Klan
Reaction to Enforcement Acts

21. Southern Economy Changes
Previous- Based on slave agriculture
Now:
Sharecropping
Owners lend land and seed to poorer workers.
Tenant Farming
Like renting an apartment but with farming land

23. End of Reconstruction Election of Ulysses S. Grant
Corruption within cabinet
Loss of Faith in reconstruction movement
Electing Rutherford Hayes over Samuel Tilden and Compromise of 1877 leads to withdrawal of troops in the South

25. R.B. Hayes
Sam Tilden

26. Effects of Reconstruction
Union Restored
AA gain citizenship and voting rights
Racial inequality, KKK
Southern economy rebuilt
New sharecropping system

27. Please Answer The Following…
1. During the Reconstruction Period, why was there a struggle between the Legislative and Executive branches. Give an example of this struggle.
2. Predict the national impact and list 1 or more effects of the death of Abraham Lincoln.