Essential Questions- reconstruction notes

Essential Questions- RECONSTRUCTION

2. 1. How will we rebuild society? What are we going to do with 4 million free African-Americans? 3. What will the labor force look like/economic system? 4. How will the South handle/react to challenges to „way of life‟? Reconstruction Amendments? 13th Amendment Abolished slavery 14th Amendment Citizenship to all born or naturalized in U.S.  Prevent states from denying rights and privileges to U.S. citizens 15th Amendment No one kept from voting because of race, color, or previous condition of servitude Improvements? Church Self-control  Center of communities School Public school system established Politics Representatives in Congress  Hiram Revels  Voice 40 Acres & a Mule (Land) General Sherman promise of Land for Freedman  Redistribution Land? Collapse? Sharecropping Landowners divide land, rent land to former slaves  Compromise? Opposition-Keep Social Order. How? **KKK-goals?  Destroy Republican Party  Use violence terror to deter Reconstruction, rights for Freedmen Panic of 1873 5 year depression, bank failures  Took North‟s attention away from the South and Reconstruction Compromise of 1877 Hayes-Tilden Compromise  Federal Troops leave South  End of Reconstruction?



Reconstruction Plans? Lincoln’s Plan Rebuild South and restore Union quickly  10% Percent Plan=If 10% of population swore allegiance to Unioncould be readmitted (form new gov‟t. and send representatives to congress)  Pardon confederate leaders, plantation owners Johnson’s Plan Similar to Lincoln‟s Plan  Difference- took power away from Planter class. Pardoned even more Confederates.  Free Soiler- “white men alone must manage the south/north” Congress Plan(Radical Reconstruction)  Republicans shifted Reconstruction power to legislative branch  Overrode/Erased Johnson‟s Plan  Passed 14,15 Amendments  Focus on harsher re-admittance for South, citizenship, suffrage, economic changes



Reconstructing Society? Economic conditions-



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Terms? Reconstruction period when US government focused on resolving consequences, aftermath of American Civil War Radical Republicans Congressmen  Full citizenship rights and voting rights for A-A‟s  Leaders of Congress Plan Andrew Johnson VP of Abe, Lincoln‟s successor  Supported White small-land owners  Tried to veto CRA-1866, RA1867  Impeached, Acquitted Black Codes Laws restraining A-A‟s rights  Keep as 2nd class citizens Freedman’s Bureau Help with transition btwn slavery to freedom  Provide needs, hospitals, legal protection, education  Help freedman and poor whites Civil Rights Act of 1866 Gave A-A‟s citizenship rights  Forbade states from passing Black Codes Reconstruction Act of 1867 Did not recognize South states  Set up 5 military districts  Tough admittance requirements Enforcement Acts of 1870/1871 Curtail violence/intimidation in South, Federal troops to protect Amnesty Act of 1872 Returned right to vote/hold office for Confederates…



Southern Republicans? Scalawags white southerner who joined Republican Party



Carpetbaggers Northerner who moved to South after CW



African-Americans 4 million, Of those who were allowed to vote= 90% voted Republican



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E.P. Comp. of 1877 >>> 1863 1877



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