The Reconstruction Era was less about reconstructing the South and
... The court ruled that the STATE alone could confer voting rights on individuals. The 15th Amendment did NOT guarantee a citizen’s right to vote, but just listed certain impermissible grounds to deny suffrage. Therefore, a path lay open for Southern states to disenfranchise blacks for supposedly ...
... The court ruled that the STATE alone could confer voting rights on individuals. The 15th Amendment did NOT guarantee a citizen’s right to vote, but just listed certain impermissible grounds to deny suffrage. Therefore, a path lay open for Southern states to disenfranchise blacks for supposedly ...
CHAPTER 6 RECONSTRUCTION AND TRANSITION
... ● The Constitution of 1868 ○ Was not accepted by all Mississippians ■ Conservative Democrats ● Objected to provisions that disfranchise all person who supported secession or aided the Confederacy ● Disfranchise - to take the right to vote away from an individual or group ● Did not agree with governo ...
... ● The Constitution of 1868 ○ Was not accepted by all Mississippians ■ Conservative Democrats ● Objected to provisions that disfranchise all person who supported secession or aided the Confederacy ● Disfranchise - to take the right to vote away from an individual or group ● Did not agree with governo ...
Nov. 18 From Presidential to Radical reconstruction
... by gift of nature to all Southern races. For skirmishes we are to have speeches; for battles, conventions, and in place of campaigns, the sessions of Legislatures and Congresses. The rebel puts aside the bayonet, and takes up the ballot. It is for us to say whether it will not prove the more deadly ...
... by gift of nature to all Southern races. For skirmishes we are to have speeches; for battles, conventions, and in place of campaigns, the sessions of Legislatures and Congresses. The rebel puts aside the bayonet, and takes up the ballot. It is for us to say whether it will not prove the more deadly ...
Reconstruction under Lincoln
... States. This guarantee overturned the Dred Scott decision of 1857, in which the US. Supreme Court had ruled that African Americans were not US. citizens. In addition, the Fourteenth Amendment guaranteed all US. citizens equal protection under the law and prohibited any state from depriving a citizen ...
... States. This guarantee overturned the Dred Scott decision of 1857, in which the US. Supreme Court had ruled that African Americans were not US. citizens. In addition, the Fourteenth Amendment guaranteed all US. citizens equal protection under the law and prohibited any state from depriving a citizen ...
SLIDE 1 Chapter 18 Reconstruction, 1865
... • In U.S. v. Cruikshank case (1876), Supreme Court rules: - only state governments punish people who violate black civil rights • In U.S. v. Reese (1876), Supreme Court: - states could prevent African Americans from voting • Court decisions weaken Reconstruction SLIDE 25 Reconstruction Ends • 1876 p ...
... • In U.S. v. Cruikshank case (1876), Supreme Court rules: - only state governments punish people who violate black civil rights • In U.S. v. Reese (1876), Supreme Court: - states could prevent African Americans from voting • Court decisions weaken Reconstruction SLIDE 25 Reconstruction Ends • 1876 p ...
Republican Party Politics and the American South
... extinguished, as the traditional “White South” (as embodied in the Democratic Party) had regained control of all state governments in the former Confederacy. The contours of Republican Party development in the South along with the legitimate successes that were achieved for black citizens and black ...
... extinguished, as the traditional “White South” (as embodied in the Democratic Party) had regained control of all state governments in the former Confederacy. The contours of Republican Party development in the South along with the legitimate successes that were achieved for black citizens and black ...
Middle School Lesson Plan on Voting Rights
... Remember earlier that the Constitution leaves the power to determine qualifications for voting to the states? States have the power to determine who, when, and how people can vote for their government officials. Also remember, that these restrictions must always comply with the U.S. Constitutional a ...
... Remember earlier that the Constitution leaves the power to determine qualifications for voting to the states? States have the power to determine who, when, and how people can vote for their government officials. Also remember, that these restrictions must always comply with the U.S. Constitutional a ...
Republican Government Brings Change to the South
... 14 - Life after Slavery for Blacks Freedom meant a variety of things, including reuniting with family and the search for employment. Some moved west or north, but most stayed in the South. Most eagerly sought education and began to establish their own institutions, including churches and schools. T ...
... 14 - Life after Slavery for Blacks Freedom meant a variety of things, including reuniting with family and the search for employment. Some moved west or north, but most stayed in the South. Most eagerly sought education and began to establish their own institutions, including churches and schools. T ...
Reconstruction: Rebuilding a Divided Nation
... because of the new job competition from freedmen. Poor white families began migrating to frontier lands such as Mississippi and Texas to find new opportunities. Three Reconstruction Plans Most southerners accepted the war’s outcome and focused on rebuilding their lives. In Washington, however, peace ...
... because of the new job competition from freedmen. Poor white families began migrating to frontier lands such as Mississippi and Texas to find new opportunities. Three Reconstruction Plans Most southerners accepted the war’s outcome and focused on rebuilding their lives. In Washington, however, peace ...
Chapter 20
... Article I of the Constitution, was a trial in the Senate. If a two-thirds majority of the senators found Johnson guilty, he would be removed from ...
... Article I of the Constitution, was a trial in the Senate. If a two-thirds majority of the senators found Johnson guilty, he would be removed from ...
Presidential Reconstruction - Derech HaTorah of Rochester
... with Lincoln’s plan. Johnson, like Lincoln, held that the southern states had never legally left the Union, and he retained most of Lincoln’s 10 percent plan. Johnson’s plan went further than Lincoln’s and excluded those Confederates who owned taxable property in excess of $20,000 from the pardon. T ...
... with Lincoln’s plan. Johnson, like Lincoln, held that the southern states had never legally left the Union, and he retained most of Lincoln’s 10 percent plan. Johnson’s plan went further than Lincoln’s and excluded those Confederates who owned taxable property in excess of $20,000 from the pardon. T ...
Notes Missed by 5th Hour - Wednesday Positions on Reconstruction
... convened in Washington. More than sixty former Confederates prepared to take their seats, including four generals, four colonels and six confederate cabinet officers, even Alexander H. Stephens, the former vice president of the Confederacy, expecting as one observer put it, "to govern the country he ...
... convened in Washington. More than sixty former Confederates prepared to take their seats, including four generals, four colonels and six confederate cabinet officers, even Alexander H. Stephens, the former vice president of the Confederacy, expecting as one observer put it, "to govern the country he ...
Reconstruction - 8th Grade US History Overview
... - all people born in U.S. are citizens, have equal rights - states preventing black suffrage will lose representation in Congress • President Johnson, most southern states refuse to support amendment ...
... - all people born in U.S. are citizens, have equal rights - states preventing black suffrage will lose representation in Congress • President Johnson, most southern states refuse to support amendment ...
GovTheoryFedvStatePowerWeisheimer
... Amendment 20: States in detail the terms of office that the President, the Vice-President, the Senators and the Representatives shall hold, 1933. Amendment 21: Repeals Prohibition, the 18th Amendment. This was seen as a means to boost the economy during the Great Depression, 1933. Amendment 22: Some ...
... Amendment 20: States in detail the terms of office that the President, the Vice-President, the Senators and the Representatives shall hold, 1933. Amendment 21: Repeals Prohibition, the 18th Amendment. This was seen as a means to boost the economy during the Great Depression, 1933. Amendment 22: Some ...
Due Process-Voting Rights Powerpoint
... 15-year-old Gerald Gault into custody after a woman complained Gerald and another boy made an indecent phone call. The sheriff left no notice for Gerald’s parents, who had to figure out on their own where Gerald went. At the station, the deputy told Gerald’s mom there would be a hearing the next day ...
... 15-year-old Gerald Gault into custody after a woman complained Gerald and another boy made an indecent phone call. The sheriff left no notice for Gerald’s parents, who had to figure out on their own where Gerald went. At the station, the deputy told Gerald’s mom there would be a hearing the next day ...
Johnson`s Plan
... state agency - not federal believed the Civil Rights Act was unconstitutional angers more Repubs now ...
... state agency - not federal believed the Civil Rights Act was unconstitutional angers more Repubs now ...
15Emancipation and Reconstruction,
... made it hard to get at the realities. During 1867 the military governors conducted elections, and in late 1867 and early 1868 the new constitutional conventions met in the Southern states. They complied with the terms that Congress had laid down, including enfranchisement of the black men; however, ...
... made it hard to get at the realities. During 1867 the military governors conducted elections, and in late 1867 and early 1868 the new constitutional conventions met in the Southern states. They complied with the terms that Congress had laid down, including enfranchisement of the black men; however, ...
Chapter 16: Reconstructing a Nation, 1865-1877
... The Retreat from Republican Radicalism: The Republicans backed away from Radical Reconstruction in part because voters seemed to be tiring of Radical Reconstruction. The Republicans portrayed themselves as the party of moderation especially when compared to the Democrats who, according to the Republ ...
... The Retreat from Republican Radicalism: The Republicans backed away from Radical Reconstruction in part because voters seemed to be tiring of Radical Reconstruction. The Republicans portrayed themselves as the party of moderation especially when compared to the Democrats who, according to the Republ ...
J M Murrin, Liberty, Equality and Power, chapter 17, Reconst
... Andrew Johnson impeached but not convicted • Ulysses S. Grant elected president • Congress ratifies Fourteenth Amendment ...
... Andrew Johnson impeached but not convicted • Ulysses S. Grant elected president • Congress ratifies Fourteenth Amendment ...
Reconstruction: 1865-1877
... At first, Johnson seemed to be following Lincoln's policy of quickly restoring the southern states to their rightful place in the Union. He prescribed loyalty oaths for ordinary white southerners, each of whom would have to take to preserve their property, aside for slaves, and to regain their civil ...
... At first, Johnson seemed to be following Lincoln's policy of quickly restoring the southern states to their rightful place in the Union. He prescribed loyalty oaths for ordinary white southerners, each of whom would have to take to preserve their property, aside for slaves, and to regain their civil ...
12.Reconstruction
... nor friends. He was free from the old plantation, but he had nothing but the dusty road under his feet." Thousands of freedmen became sharecropper farmers, which led them to becoming indentured servants, indebted to the plantation owner and resulting in generations of people working the same plot of ...
... nor friends. He was free from the old plantation, but he had nothing but the dusty road under his feet." Thousands of freedmen became sharecropper farmers, which led them to becoming indentured servants, indebted to the plantation owner and resulting in generations of people working the same plot of ...
Johnson`s trial before the Senate
... Institution of various “Black Codes” that subjected former slaves to “special regulations and restrictions on their freedom,”8 e.g.: a) Vagrancy laws i) By making African-American unemployment illegal, whites forced Blacks into disadvantageous long-term contractual arrangements with white employers ...
... Institution of various “Black Codes” that subjected former slaves to “special regulations and restrictions on their freedom,”8 e.g.: a) Vagrancy laws i) By making African-American unemployment illegal, whites forced Blacks into disadvantageous long-term contractual arrangements with white employers ...
Slide 1
... They were not all poor men who carried their possessions with them as the name may and the definition may suggest They were a heterogeneous group who moved to the South for a variety of reasons They were not all ignorant; they view the South as a land of opportunity They were not all corrupt ...
... They were not all poor men who carried their possessions with them as the name may and the definition may suggest They were a heterogeneous group who moved to the South for a variety of reasons They were not all ignorant; they view the South as a land of opportunity They were not all corrupt ...
NOTES chapter 16 Reconstruction
... When Congress reconvened in December 1865, it was faced with a Reconstruction policy advanced by President Johnson that not only allowed former Confederate leaders to regain power at the state and national levels, but obviously abandoned the freedmen to hostile southern whites. Northern congressmen ...
... When Congress reconvened in December 1865, it was faced with a Reconstruction policy advanced by President Johnson that not only allowed former Confederate leaders to regain power at the state and national levels, but obviously abandoned the freedmen to hostile southern whites. Northern congressmen ...
Reconstruction - apushistory11
... The End of Reconstruction • The Financial Crisis of 1873 – The Civil War had caused a major economic boom in the North, and after the war industrialists continued to expand despite the fact there was no longer a major demand for their goods this caused many of these companies to fire a large numb ...
... The End of Reconstruction • The Financial Crisis of 1873 – The Civil War had caused a major economic boom in the North, and after the war industrialists continued to expand despite the fact there was no longer a major demand for their goods this caused many of these companies to fire a large numb ...
Disenfranchisement after the Reconstruction Era
Disenfranchisement after the Reconstruction Era deals with the efforts made by Southern states of the former Confederacy at the turn of the 20th century in the United States to prevent their black citizens from registering to vote and voting. Their actions defied the Fifteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, ratified in 1870, which was intended to protect the suffrage of freedmen after the American Civil War.Considerable violence and fraud had accompanied elections during Reconstruction, as the white Democrats used paramilitary groups from the 1870s to suppress black Republican voting and turn Republicans out of office. After regaining control of the state legislatures, Democrats were alarmed by a late 19th-century alliance between Republicans and Populists that cost them some elections. In North Carolina's Wilmington Insurrection of 1898 (long called a race riot by whites), white Democrats conducted a coup d'etat of city government, the only one in United States history. They overturned a duly elected biracial government and widely attacked the black community, destroying lives and property.Ultimately, white Democrats added to previous efforts and achieved widespread disenfranchisement by law: from 1890 to 1908, Southern state legislatures passed new constitutions, constitutional amendments, and laws that made voter registration and voting more difficult. This turn of events achieved the intended result of disenfranchising most of the black citizens, as well as many poor whites in the South.The Republican Party was nearly eliminated in the region for decades, until the late 20th century, when a wholesale party realignment took place. Southern Democrats controlled the southern states based on white supremacy. As Congressional apportionment was based on the total population, the Southern white Democrats, the Southern bloc, had tremendous legislative power for decades. Section 2 of the Fourteenth Amendment could have reduced Congressional representation for states that denied suffrage on racial grounds, but this provision was not enforced, as opponents of the Southern bloc could not overcome their political power.In 1912, Woodrow Wilson gained an Electoral College bonus as a result of this black (Republican) disenfranchisement; he was elected as the first southern President since 1856. He was re-elected in 1916, in a much closer presidential contest. During his first term, Wilson instituted overt racial segregation throughout federal government workplaces and established racial discrimination in hiring. During World War I, American military forces were segregated, with black soldiers poorly trained and equipped; they were often sent on suicide missions. Disenfranchisement had other far-reaching effects in Congress, where the Democratic South gained ""about 25 extra seats in Congress for each decade between 1903 and 1953."" Also, the Democratic dominance in the South meant that southern Senators and Representatives were entrenched in Congress, gaining seniority privileges and control of chairmanships of important committees, as well as leadership of the national Democratic Party. During the Great Depression, legislation establishing numerous national social programs were passed without the representation of African Americans, leading to gaps in program coverage.In addition, because black Southerners were not listed on local voter rolls, they were automatically excluded from serving jury duty in local courts.Racial segregation in the U.S. military was ended by Executive Order of President Harry S. Truman in 1948, after World War II. Disenfranchisement did not end until after passage of federal civil rights legislation in the mid-1960s, which included authority for the federal government to monitor voter registration practices and elections and enforce constitutional voting rights.