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Reconstruction 1865-1877 Civil war is over time to rebuild the south What Should Be Done with the South • Make the south politically loyal to the Union • Outlaw slavery • Punish southern leadership Rebuild the South --Reconstruction • Rebuild the south 5 steps • Politically • Economically • Legally • Legislatively • Culturally confederate-flag-reenactorsGettysburg Confederate Battle Flag Heritage or Historic symbol of Hate The Klan Senate Reaction To the Confederate Surrender • Radical Republicans in the Senate wanted to harshly punish southern leadership • Trials, jail & Execution • Confederate Col. Henry Wirz-1865 commander of Andersonville prison in Georgia, is hanged for the murder of soldiers incarcerated there during the Civil War. The Ex Slaves 1865 • Before the war---Slave • During the War-----Contraband • After the War-----Freedmen Who should control Reconstruction • The President • OR Congress Lincoln’s Reconstruction Plan • Outlaw slavery • 13th Amendment 1865 – Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude except as a punishment for crime…shall exist within the United States. • 10% Swear an oath to the Union • Except high ranking confederates Black Codes 1865-1866 • Southern politicians are creating state laws to control & economically--enslave the Freedmen (ex-slaves). Examples: • Congress uses legislation to fight the Southern politicians’ cruel & racist Black Laws (Codes) Civil War Amendments • 1865-1877-The Senate is controlled by Radical republicans. • 1865-13th- outlaw slavery• 1866--14th- Equality before the law-due process of rights. • Fight the Black Codes. • 1870--15th-right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude." Black Codes • Southern politicians are creating state laws to control & re-enslave the Freedmen (ex-slaves). Examples: • Congress uses legislation to fight the Southern politicians’ cruel & racist Black Laws (Codes) What Should Be Done with the South • Punish the South but who gets punished? • Congress declares that any state that swears an oath to the Union and allows free elections can re-enter the Union. HW-Due Thursday • • • • • Textbook pg# 376-382 define Sec# 1Terms & names Radical Republicans Andrew Johnson 15th Amendment Reconstruction • • • Pg# 383 392 Section # 2 Terms & Names Scalawag, Sharecropping Tenant farming • Pg# 401 Terms & names –All definitions Reconstruction 1865-1877 • How to help the Freedmen (ex-slaves) succeed as Americans. • Education---Freedman’s Bureau 1865-1877 • Gen O.O. Howard is appointed Director • Black Courts-Protect the Freedmen from being harassed & Re-enslaved • Hw today in your textbook • Page # 382 • AND page 392 Civil War Amendments to the Constitution • Radical republicans • 13th- outlaw slavery • 14th- Equality before the law-due process of rights • 15th-right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude." President Johnson • Pardons 13, 000 confederates – “the white man alone must manage the South” – Goal of Radical republicans for the newly freed slaves – Land – voting rights – protection of the law Radical republicans • Are outraged about Johnson’s acceptance of former confederates serving in Congress • March 1867-Radical republicans have 2/3 majority in Congress = over ride presidential vetoes • South is divided into 5 military districts • New state constitutions for secessionist states • March 1867-Tenure of Office Act Map of Reconstruction districts 1867 • http://mappinghistory.uoregon.edu/english/U S/US25-02.html Johnson is Impeached • Acquitted by 1 vote Share Cropping • Poor blacks & whites rent the land to plant cotton – Buy supplies, food etc., on credit & pay back the lender with $ earned from the harvest. – Multi generational exploitative system – 1865-1950s End of Reconstruction • From 1865-1877 Reconstruction is eroded by court rulings, the KKK, bad economy & corruption in president Grant govt. • 1873--Slaughterhouse cases- SC held that States were in charge of the civil rights of residents & not the 14th Amendment • 1876-14th amendment did not permit the fed govt to punish whites who oppressed blacks Democrats redeem the south • Compromise of 1877—Rutherford B. Hayes vs. Samuel Tilden- Tilden won the popular vote but was 1 vote short the # electoral votes. Southern democrats agreed to Hayes if Reconstruction came to an end. Hayes “wins” South returns to home Rule • The Klan, segregation, fear & intimidation of blacks • Democrats control the south • 1964 civil rights act The Solid South • The “Solid South” was a political fact, benefiting southern-Democrats for generations and then Southern-Republicans, with Bible Belt and racial politics ruling the day well into the 1960’s