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African American migration from the north to
the west
Sharecropping and tenant farming
Jim Crow laws ( Black codes)
Southern govt. had a variety of methods for
blacks not to vote
Southerners resented carpetbaggers
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SOL 7.1.6
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How should the U.S. rebuild and reform?
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How do we define loyalty?
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Who are Lincoln, Lee and Douglass?
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Southern military leaders barred from public
office
Military supervision by Northern soldiers
African Americans elected to office
Freedman’s Bureau established
Civil Rights Act of 1866 enforced by federal
troops
SOL 7.1.4
The Freedmen’s Bureau
THE FREEDMEN’S BUREAU
The first duty of the Freedman’s Bureau was to provide emergency relief to the people displaced by the Civil War – including
both recently liberated slaves and Southern whites. Later, the Freedman’s Bureau would set up schools, and help to resolve
disputes between whites and African-Americans in Southern states by establishing its own court system.
Freedman’s Bureau Schoolhouses
FREEDMAN’S BUREAU SCHOOLS
Most Southern towns did not have public schools prior to the Civil War, and what education was available to
children took place at home. Following the Civil War, African-Americans who had gained independence sought
what they had always been denied – literacy, scholarship, job training, and college educations.
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Lincoln’s 10% Plan
would likely have been
more lenient on the
South than the Radical
Reconstruction to
follow. Sadly, he was
assassinated in 1865 at
the hands of John
Wilkes Booth.
Abraham Lincoln’s Ten Percent Plan - 1865
LINCOLN’S TEN PERCENT PLAN:
* Ten Percent of the voters of a state must swear loyalty to the United States.
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*The new government of the state must outlaw slavery.
*Amnesty, or a group pardon for crimes, for most Confederate soldiers.
*No Confederate government leaders or military leaders could hold office.
Frederick Douglass
Frederick Douglass was a former
slave who became one of the most
outspoken abolitionist speakers in
the United States during the
Reconstruction period. During the
Civil War, he petitioned President
Lincoln to allow newly freed slaves
to serve in the United States
Military. After the war, he led the
Freedman’s Bureau and served as
the United States ambassador to
Haiti.
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13th- Bans slavery (Lincoln)
14th- Grants citizenship to those born in
America (Except Native Americans)
15th- Ensures citizens right to vote regardless
of race, color or condition of servitude
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How did the actions of people affect events
during Reconstruction?
What actions did the government take to
extend civil rights to the formerly enslaved?
Why do you think people moved west of the
Mississippi after the Civil War?
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U.S. President from1860 until his
assassination in 1865
Wanted to preserve the union
“With malice toward none, and charity for all,
let us bind up the nation’s wounds.”
“Freed the slaves” (13th amendment)
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Urged Southerners to reconcile at the end of
the war and reunite
Leader of the Confederate Army in the Civil
War
Became president of Washington and Lee
University
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Fought for adoption of constitutional
amendments that guaranteed VOTING rights
Powerful voice for human rights and civil
liberties
A former slave
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Congress had to decide who won (Tilden vs
Hayes)
Hayes became president
Northern troops were withdrawn from the
south
It was the end of Reconstruction!