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RECONSTRUCTION Unit IVC AP United States History
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Fundamental Question ► ► How did the Civil War change the political, social, and economical landscape of the United States? ► ► Did the Civil War and Reconstruction solve the problems and conditions that led to the sectional conflict?
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Reconstruction, Phase 1 Lincoln’s Plan ► ► Proclamation of Amnesty and Reconstruction (1863) Full presidential pardons for ► ► 1. Oath of allegiance, ► ► 2. Accept end of slavery Confederate state reestablished once 10% of voters affirmed allegiance and loyalty Provide education and voting rights for blacks ► ► Wade-Davis Bill (1864) Bill required 50% voters to swear oath and non-Confederates ► ► Second Inaugural Address “with malice toward none; with charity for all” Louisiana as example of reconstructed state ► ► Lincoln’s Assassination April 14, 1865 by John Wilkes Booth in Ford’s Theater Johnson and rise of Radical Republicans…
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Freedmen’s Bureau ► ► Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands in March 1865 ► ► Food, shelter, medicine for freed blacks and displaced whites ► ► Education of blacks and colleges ► ► Viciously attacked and ridiculed by Northern racists and bitter Southerners
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Reconstruction, Phase 2 Andrew Johnson’s Plan ► ► About Andrew Johnson Tennessee Democrat and Lincoln’s VP Represented more for poor whites against Southern “aristocracy” White supremacist ► ► Reconstruction Plan Pardons for loyalty oath No pardons for Confederate leaders and owned $20,000 taxable property Admitted Confederate states with appointed governors who established voting procedures for state legislatures States must abolish slavery and secession clauses
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Result of Johnson Plan ► ► Return of former Confederate leaders Alexander Stephens, CSA VP, elected Georgia senator ► ► Revokes General Sherman’s Special Field Orders, No. 15 40 acres and a mule for each former slave family ► ► Readmitted states complied but did not provide provisions for blacks to vote ► ► Black Codes Prohibited renting land or borrowing to buy land Contract-labor systems No testifying against whites, curfews, no jury service, restricted commerce ► ► Mid-Term Election of 1866 and the Radical Republicans The Johnson Vetoes ► ► Freedmen’s Bureau Bill - appropriations, protect from Black Codes ► ► Civil Rights Bill of 1866 - prohibits Black Codes, secures voting rights “Waving the Bloody Shirts” Republicans controlled 2/3 of both houses
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Reconstruction, Phase 3 Radical Plan ► ► Republicans led by Thaddeus Stevens and Charles Sumner overrode Johnson’s vetoes “state suicide” and “conquered provinces” ► ► Reconstruction Acts of 1867 Confederate leaders disavowed Johnson-based state governments replaced with military districts under martial law Former Confederate states may be admitted if… ► ► Ratify the Fourteenth Amendment ► ► Enfranchise blacks and former slaves
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Radical Legislation ► ► Fourteenth Amendment (1868) Anyone born or naturalized was American citizen States must respect rights with “equal protection” and “due process” Disavowed Confederate leaders; not paying state debt; penalty for preventing voters ► ► Johnson Impeachment (Feb.-May, 1868) Political ploy by Radical Republicans with Tenure of Office Act Acquitted by one vote ► ► Fifteenth Amendment (1869) Blacks have right to vote ► ► Civil Rights Act of 1875 Equal accommodations for blacks; participation on juries ► ► Other goals and reforms Infrastructure, penal and institutional development and codification, women property rights, public education
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Freedmen in the South Political Recognition ► ► Elected to state and national legislatures 2 U.S. Senators and a dozen Representatives ► ► Right to vote ► ► Anger and resentment by Southern whites Desire for autonomy: independent churches, schools, move out West Sharecropping ► ► White landowners provided seed and farm supplies for as much as half of production Tenant Farming ► ► White landowners provided land, but not tools and supplies Only 5% of southern blacks claimed economic independence
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Southern Life ► ► Republicans and Northerners in the South Scalawags ► ► Southern Republicans fostering American System-type programs ► ► Cooperated with Northern politics and economics Carpetbaggers ► ► Northerners investing in “New South,” ► ► reformers/provide aid ► ► squatters and plunderers ► ► Political Corruption Reconstruction state governments influenced by carpetbaggers ► ► Economics Sharecropping and tenant farming not very productive Cotton production significantly decreases Cash crops over food crops slow Southern recovery
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White Southern Resistance ► ► Paramilitary groups based on white supremacy White League ► ► Openly criticized, attacked, killed Republicans and freedmen Ku Klux Klan (1867) ► ► Nathaniel Bedford Forrest ► ► “invisible empire” to scare or destroy Republicans and freedmen ► ► Still fighting the war OR The South Will Rise Again! ► ► Force Acts (1871-1872) disband KKK
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The North ► ► As the South struggled to recover, Republicans pursued economic expansion through industry and infrastructure ► ► Political and Financial Corruption Abuse of patronage (spoils system) Grant’s connection to stock market speculation, tax fraud, embezzlement ► ► Political Machines Provide for underprivileged, immigrants, businesses in return for votes William “Boss” Tweed and Tammany Hall ► ► Reaction to Radical Republicanism Racism entrenched in the North Immigrants and poor whites feared losing economic opportunities to freedmen and entitled blacks
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Evolution of Northern Attitude Toward Blacks During Reconstruction “And Not This Man?” August 1865 “This Is A White Man’s Government” September 1868 “Colored Rule in a Reconstructed State” March 1874 Shown through the political cartoons of Thomas Nast of Harper’s Weekly
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Election of 1868
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Grant and the Republicans ► ► Civil War hero, but no political experience; linked with moderates and Radicals ► ► Becomes engrossed in corruption links and charges Salary Grab Act (1873) Credit Mobilier Whiskey Ring ► ► Split in Republicans Fractured by Liberal Republicans who forged coalition with Democrats ► ► Panic of 1873 Driven by railroads collapse, speculation, and overexpansion Leads to end of Greenbacks ► ► Amnesty Act of 1872 Led to Southern Democrats to retake state governments and replace black legislators
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“Election” of 1876 ► ► Republicans struggle to nominate “boring” Rutherford B. Hayes ► ► Democrats nominate solid and popular Samuel J. Tilden ► ► Tilden won the popular vote solidly and needed only 1 more electoral vote for majority ► ► Contested electoral votes in 3 Reconstruction states (Louisiana, South Carolina, Florida) ► ► Electoral Commission rewarded 3 sets of electoral votes to Hayes Split ideologically 8-7 in favor of Republicans Samuel Tilden (D) Rutherford B. Hayes (R)
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Election of 1876
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Compromise of 1877 ► ► Angry Democrats and riots around the nation due to Hayes’ “victory” forced a deal ► ► Hayes will become president, if… Remove federal troops from the South Help develop infrastructure in South, ex. railroads ► ► End of Reconstruction With no enforcement by federal troops, civil rights limited or eliminated in the South Democrats return to power in the South
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