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1 Aim: How did Reconstruction impact the South Post-Civil War? Do Now: Write down 3 facts you learned from the video. http://www.history.com/topics/american-civil- war/john-wilkes-booth/videos/the-other-side-of- lincoln-lincolns- assassination?m=528e394da93ae&s=undefined&f =1&free=false HW: Finish worksheet http://www.history.com/topics/american-civil- war/john-wilkes-booth/videos/the-other-side-of- lincoln-lincolns- assassination?m=528e394da93ae&s=undefined&f =1&free=false

2 Appomattox, Virginia General Robert E. Lee surrenders to U.S. Grant Civil War is over

3 Thirteenth Amendment “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” Slavery is declared illegal

4 Reconstruction Lincoln’s Ten Percent Plan: –Required ten-percent of the voting population in a rebellious state pledge an oath of loyalty in order to return to the Union

5 Radical Republicans Wade Davis Bill –Congress, not the president, is responsible for reconstruction. –A majority, NOT 10 percent, should swear an oath of allegiance in order to rejoin the Union

6 Lincoln’s Assassination Assassinated by John Wilkes Booth, a southern sympathizer, five days after Confederates surrender

7 President Johnson Carries out Reconstruction Democrat Favors harsh punishment of Confederacy Considered traitor by the South Considered friend of the Radical Republicans

8 Freedmen’s Bureau: Government agency which provides assistance to former slaves and poor whites in the South by distributing clothing, food medical aid, access to hospitals, and education

9 Black Codes Discriminatory laws passed in the South that severely restricted African Americans’ lives. Denied them the rights to –testify against whites –serve on juries or in state militias –Vote – start a job without the approval of the previous employer


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