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RECONSTRUCTION
definition: putting something back together
1865 To 1877
How do the actions and beliefs of
individuals and groups bring about
social, political, and economic change?
RECONSTRUCTION FACTS
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Reconstruction after the war consisted of dividing the Southern states
into military districts—a plan supported by the Radical Republicans in
Congress. These districts would be governed by the United States
military.
Opposing Views
Not everyone in the United States
and the defeated Confederate
States of America agreed upon
how to best put the Union back
together.
Abraham Lincoln (Moderate Republican)
Andrew Johnson (Moderate Republican)
Radical Republicans
Robert E. Lee
Frederick Douglass
The war has been lost;
the North has freed the
slaves. We have to
decide whether to heal
old wounds or fight for
what was lost.
Will we be tried
for treason? Will
we be allowed to
work? Will we be
allowed to vote
and hold office?
Lincoln and Moderate
Republicans
 Moderate Republicans:
Leaders like President Lincoln
and Vice President Andrew
Johnson wished to take it easy
on the South so that they
would peacefully rejoin the
Union without too much
resentment.
RADICAL REPUBLICANS
Radical Republicans believed the
majority of the southern states’ voting
population should swear allegiance to
the United States before they could be
readmitted into the Union.
They felt that freed slaves and their
civil rights should be protected.
They felt that Congress, NOT the
president, should be in charge of the
reconstruction of the South.
Frederick Douglass
Frederick Douglass had been an
outspoken opponent to slavery.
After the Civil War, he worked tirelessly
for suffrage (right to vote) for the AfricanAmericans.
He supported the Fifteenth Amendment
to the US Constitution.
He disagreed with President Johnson’s
assertion that only whites should lead the
southern state governments.
What do we do about the freedmen?
Former slaves had to
find work and
establish their place
in politics, the
economy, and
society. They faced
the challenges of
illiteracy, lack of
economic security,
racial prejudice, and
unequal treatment
under the law and in
society.
Robert E. Lee, Confederate General
He urged Southerners to
reconcile (make up) with the
Northerners and reunite
with the Union.
He later became president of
Washington College, which
was renamed Washington
and Lee after his death.
Many in the South refused
to accept the rules placed
upon them by the
Northerners and struck back
with black codes and the Ku
Klux Klan.