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Reconstruction
(1865-77)
Would be the
equivalent of
losing 6 million
Americans today
35.2 Million
(1865)
Union Deaths
Confederate Deaths
360,000
258,000
Impact of the Civil War
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Slavery is Abolished
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What issues are created with the end of
slavery? (Group Work)
Confederate $$$ is worthless
 Railroads and
infrastructure destroyed
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Lincoln’s Last Act
Wade-Davis Bill
Majority of White Men Take an Ironclad
Loyalty Oath
No Slavery
Elect New Government
No Former Government Officials or
Confederate Military Leaders
Lincoln says NO – Pocket Veto
President Johnson v. Radical Republicans
(Presidential Reconstruction v. Radical Reconstruction)
Andrew Johnson
Thaddeus
Stevens
(PA)
Charles
Sumner
(MA)
Reconstruction Issues
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What to do with…
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Confederate Leaders
Confederate Soldiers
Confederate Citizens
Former Slaves
Retribution/Justice v. Rehabilitation
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Rights of citizenship, land, education, etc.
Radical Republican Power Grab?
Slaves
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13th Amendment
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(r.1865)
Freedmen’s Bureau
Family Reunification
 Education
 Basic Needs
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Black Codes
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(def.) Laws passed by southern state
governments designed to limit the rights of
African Americans
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Blacks could not vote, serve on juries, or
travel without employment, had to work in
unskilled labor
Civil Rights Act of 1866
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(H.111 to 38) (S.33 to 12)
Johnson Vetoes – Congress overrides (How?)
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Equal Protection Clause
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Amendment (r.1868)
No State shall make or enforce any law which
shall abridge the privileges or immunities of
citizens of the United States; nor shall any
State deprive any person of life, liberty, or
property, without due process of law; nor deny
to any person within its jurisdiction the equal
protection of the laws.
15th Amendment (r.1870)
To the tune of “Three Blind Mice”:
Free, citizens, vote,
13th, 14th, 15th.
It all happened after the Civil War,
It all happened after the Civil War.
Free, citizens, vote,
Military Reconstruction Act of 1867
Registered Texas
Voters
White: 59,633
Black: 49,479
(Blacks were 30%)
Re-admission to representation in
Congress
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Tennessee - July 24, 1866
Arkansas - June 22, 1868
Florida - June 25, 1868
North Carolina - July 4, 1868
South Carolina - July 9, 1868
Louisiana - July 9, 1868
Alabama - July 13, 1868
Virginia - January 26, 1870
Mississippi - February 23, 1870
Texas - March 30, 1870
Georgia - July 15, 1870
Radical Reconstruction Works (ish)
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African Americans elected to office
Republican Legislatures Repealed the
Black Codes
Johnson Impeached
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Secretary of War, Edwin M. Stanton
Tenure of Office Act
Problems
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Carpetbaggers
Scalawags
Land Issues
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Sharecropping
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Article
Racial Tensions
Ku Klux Klan
Ulysses S. Grant
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Inexperienced
“Whiskey Ring”
Panic of 1873
1874, Democrats won
seats in Congress
Compromise of 1877
Rutherford B.
Hayes (R)
VS.
Samuel Tilden (D)
"It is like writing
history with
Lightning. And my
only regret is that it
is all so terribly
true."
-- President
Woodrow Wilson