1. Reconstruction
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2. I. Post-Civil War South was devastated in all aspects
Reconstruction was the reintegration of the southern states into the Union
It was the state’s job to rebuild things
Hard to do without any money
The federal gov’t took a major role in protecting the freed slaves
Northern Republicans have control of Congress

3. II. Reconstruction Lincoln’s Plan
10% of citizens in a state swear loyalty
Hold new elections
Outlaw slavery
Easy to meet goals that should help start the healing process

4. II. Reconstruction Johnson’s Plan 10% loyalty New elections
Ratify the 13th Amendment (good)
Wealthy Southerners must ask for a presidential pardon (bad)
Angers many in North and South

5. II. Reconstruction Congressional Plan
Congress refuses to admit Southern officials & sends the 14th to the states for ratification
Southern states refuse to do so
Military Reconstruction Act of 1867
Splits South into 5 military districts
These new gov’ts ratify the 14th amendment

6. II. Reconstruction President Johnson’s impeachment
He tried to remove a member of the Cabinet
Congress says that is their job
He does it anyway
Congress impeaches him
Not removed from office but loses his power

7. III. Southern Reaction Southern states pass Black Codes
Laws that restrict the freedom of black people
They elect former Confederates to Congress
Vigilante groups engage in violence toward the freedmen
South opposes the Freedmen’s Bureau
Organization meant to help all those affected by the war
South opposes the 14th Amendment

8. IV. Reconstruction Amendments
13th Amendment
Freed all slaves in the United States
States had to accept it before they could form new gov’ts

9. IV. Reconstruction Amendments
14th Amendment
Citizenship to all born in the US
Equal protection for all citizens
Due process of law
Overturns Dred Scott decision

10. IV. Reconstruction Amendments
15th Amendment
All male citizens have the right to vote
AAs want to vote
Republicans wants the AAs to vote for them
Federal troops attempt to protect AAs that vote

11. V. African Americans Most stayed on the same plantation
No money and no where to go
Some moved looking for family members
Exodusters – AAs who moved to Kansas
Started own churches and communities
Began going to schools
Freedmen’s Bureau schools
Black colleges started by Northerners

12. V. African Americans
B/c of the new amendments, blacks elected many others to state legislatures and Congress
Got land from the Freedmen’s Bureau
It was taken away when whites were pardoned
Never got their “40 acres and a mule”

13. V. African Americans
Freedmen’s Bureau also set up sharecropping agreements
Workers gave labor
Land owners gave land and tools
Workers paid with a share of their crops
Owners rigged the system by overcharging for everything
Workers could never get out of debt

14. VI. Whites Scalawags Carpetbaggers White Southerners:
White Southerners that joined the Republican Party
Carpetbaggers
Northerners that moved south to help/steal
Mostly Republican
White Southerners:
Hated blacks
Hated scalawags
Hated carpetbaggers