1. Reconstruction Period
8-5.1 Analyze the development of Reconstruction policy and its impact in South Carolina, including the presidential and the congressional reconstruction plans, the role of black codes, and the Freedmen’s Bureau.

2. Key Vocabulary Freedmen’s Bureau pardon Assassination Black Codes
13th Amendment
14th Amendment
15th Amendment
Radical Republicans
Congressional Reconstruction
Military Districts
Impeached
Ku Klux Klan

3. Key Concepts Presidential Reconstruction
Lincoln’s Plan for Reconstruction, formulated before the conflict, was to end the war as quickly as possible. Lincoln was assassinated and Johnson did not significantly change Lincoln’s plan. Congress rejected this plan as “too easy” on the South.

4. Congressional Reconstruction
The “Radical Republican” Congress passed its own Reconstruction plan in order to protect the rights of newly freed slaves as well as to Republican political power. This plan called for military occupation of the south in order to enforce the Reconstruction policy and the 13th 14th and 15th Amendments.

5. The Freedman’s Bureau was established by Congress to assist everyone affected by the Civil War. It was a federal agency under the control of the US Army and its major success over time proved to be the facilitation of over 1,000 schools throughout the south

6. The Black Codes demonstrated that the white South Carolinians were unwilling to recognize the social and political rights of the newly freed slaves.

7. Reading Like A Historian
Radical Reconstruction Plan
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Reading Like A Historian
Thomas Nast’s Political Cartoons
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