1. Quotes
With malice toward none, with charity for all…let us bind up the nation’s wounds.. and achieve a just and lasting peace.
Abraham Lincoln, Second Inaugural Address
“We hold it to be the duty of the government to inflict punishment on the rebels… The whole fabric of southern society must be changed.
Thaddeus Stevens, “Radical Republican” leader of Congress

2. Reconstruction
The southern states were left embittered and devastated by the war.
What kind of things were destroyed in the war?
What problems did the nation have to solve?
Quick Clip

3. Reconstruction
At the end of the war, there was no agreed-upon plan for Reconstruction
Lincoln -“charity for all” – States had never really left the Union, so quickly restore loyal state govts in the South and move on
Congress’s Radical Republicans – “punish the South” and guarantee rights to former slaves
After Lincoln’s assassination, Andrew Johnson becomes president. Johnson’s plan let the South in quickly, but did not protect rights of freed blacks

4. What did the Black Codes do?
“All freedmen, free negroes, and mulattoes in this State, with no lawful employment or business, or found unlawful assembling themselves together either in the day or night shall be fined fifty dollars”
How were African-Americans controlled in the South?

5. Battles over Reconstruction
Congress battles with President Johnson on
Freedman’s Bureau – social, legal help
Civil Rights Act – made racial discrim. illegal
Congress passes bills  Johnson vetoes them  Congress overrides the vetoes
14th Amendment – legal eq. and citizenship
Johnson tries to defeat the 14th Amendment– he fails! Republicans take over Congress!

6. Impeachment of the President
Why was President
Johnson impeached?
What was the outcome of the trial?

7. The Civil War Amendments- read the amendments on pgs and in your own words write what the amendments accomplished.
13th
14th
15th
Can you find the flaw in the 15th Amendment?
Abolished slavery
Citizenship and equal legal protection
Voting rights

8. Reconstruction Act of 1867: Congress divides the South into military districts

9. Election of 1868 Ulysses S. Grant wins a close election
Confederates were not allowed to vote
Support from carpetbaggers and scalawags
And for the 1st time…freed African-Americans

10. carpetbaggers – Northerners who came South after the war to help, or to make money
Scalawags – Southerners who supported Reconstruction

11. Hiram Revels is the first African-American Senator
Hiram Revels is the first African-American Senator. He served as the US Senator from Mississippi.

12. Opposition to Reconstruction
Who might oppose Reconstruction?
Who were the Redeemers? What did they do to oppose Reconstruction?
Redeemers were Southern Democrats who wanted to retake control of their state governments –wanted Home Rule

13. The “Invisible Empire of the South”
“Of course he wants to vote for the Democratic ticket”

14. The Failure of Federal Enforcement

15. The End of Reconstruction
Why does support for Reconstruction end?
Northerners have moved on
Political scandals in Grant’s administration
Economic problems: Panic of 1873
After the 15th Amendment, many think the work is done
Supreme Court weakens the Amendments
The South regains control…

16. Compromise of 1877 The END of Reconstruction
No one clearly wins the Presidential election – Hayes (R) v Tilden (D)
Congress makes a deal:
Republicans get Rutherford B. Hayes as president if the South gets:
federal troops removed
money for rail, rebuilding, projects
to govern themselves without Northerners

17. Word Maps Sharecropping
Definition:
Synonym:
Sharecropping
Drawing:
A (good) sentence:
Was sharecropping a good idea for landowners? For poor whites and freedmen?

18. Conclusion
The North and Midwest industrialized, but the South would remain a backward, agriculture-based economy and the poorest section of the nation for many decades.