1. Reconstruction

2. Problems Facing Post Civil War America
A. Political re-entry of formerly rebellious states
B. Economic devastation of the South
C. Education and support of freedmen

3. Lincoln Plan 1. amnesty – to a state if it took loyalty oath
2. readmission - if 10% took oath & agreed to emancipation
No Confederate voters, officeholders
* Recon to be under President not Congress
Lincoln shot April 14th at 7:55 pm and died on April 15th

4. Johnson Plan Declare its succession illegal
Swear oath of allegiance to the Union
Promise not to pay Confederate war debts
Ratify 13th amendment

5. Radical Plan Wade Davis Bill
Motives of the Radicals
1) Punishment of the South 2) Retain Republican power 3) Aid the freed slaves
South divided into five military districts   Radical governments formed in Southern states composed of blacks, northern carpetbaggers, and Southern scalawags

6. Black Codes Own property Serve on juries Legally marry
Laws designed to regulate the lives of freed slaves both economically and socially
Ex-slaves had to Obey curfews, and obtain permits to travel along with the following do’s and don’ts
Own property
Legally marry
File lawsuits
Go to school
Serve on juries
Testify against whites
Marry whites

7. Grandfather Clause
The Grandfather clause was a voting loophole that whites in power allowed.
Blacks were kept from voting by poll taxes and literacy tests (violation of civil rights)
Whites that were also illiterate were allowed to vote, because their grandfather was literate. ( he may or may not have been)

8. Freedmen's Bureau
Collected and distributed clothes and food to needy blacks and whites after all, the Civil War effected both blacks and whites alike.
Set up hospitals
Set up primary schools
Established teacher training centers

9. Jim Crow Laws
In the United States, the so-called Jim Crow laws were made to enforce racial segregation, and included laws that would prevent African Americans from doing things that a white person could do. For instance, Jim Crow laws regulated separate use of water fountains, public bath houses, and separate seating sections on public transport.

11. 13th amendment 1865
Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.

12. 14th amendment 1866
The amendment was designed to grant citizenship to and protect the civil liberties of recently freed slaves.
Depriving any person of his life, liberty, or property without due process of law, or denying to any person within their jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws is unconstitutional

13. 15th amendment 1870
The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude.

14. Ku Klux Klan
The Klan's first incarnation was in Founded by veterans of the Confederate Army, its main purpose was to resists Congressional Reconstruction, and it focused as much on intimidating "carpetbaggers" and "scalawags" as on putting down the freed slaves. It quickly adopted violent methods, and was involved in a wave of 1,300 murders of Republican voters in 1868.

15. K K K
Created by Confederate officer Nathaniel Bedford Forrest in Tennessee

16. Johnson Impeached
On February 24, 1868, the House of Representatives voted to impeach President Johnson.
Congress wanted Johnson impeached because he refused to cooperate or compromise over black rights and the reconstruction of Southern state governments. And for his wrongful dismissal of the secretary of war

17. Johnson is acquitted
Johnson narrowly escaped being convicted and sent to prison by one vote
Johnson’s jury was the Senate

18. U.S. Grant elected 1868 Civil War hero U.S. Grant was elected
Soon thereafter the 15th amendment was passed
Grant had one of the most corrupt organizations

19. End of Reconstruction
Reconstruction officially ended as all federal troops were withdrawn from the South. White rule was restored, and black people were over time deprived of many civil and political rights and their economic position remained depressed.

20. Rutherford B Hayes
With Hayes elected president in the last southern states of Florida, South Carolina, and Louisiana were re-admitted to the United States.
Troops were withdrawn, and reconstruction ended in 1877