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The Civil War &
Reconstruction
Unit 6
Chapters 14-15
Causes
The Union & the CSA in 1861
Comparing the North & the South
Advantages for the Union
1. Population
2. Economic
3. Political
So why did the South
think they could win?
1. 
2. 
3. 
4. 
5. 
Defensive War
Geography
Military Leadership
High Troop Morale
Foreign Aid
The Union s Strategy
The
Anaconda
Plan
General Winfield Scott
1st Battle of Bull Run
Battle of Manassas
July 1861
The Great
Skedaddle
The Battle of the Ironclads
March 1862
Merrimac vs. Monitor
The Peninsula Campaign
March 1862
If McClellan
isn t using
the army, I
would like to
borrow it.
General George McClellan
-Lincoln
Battle of Antietam or Sharpsburg
Sept. 1862
Burnside Bridge
Bloody Lane
The Emancipation Proclamation
January 1, 1863
Emancipation in 1863
The Draft
•  Opposed by the
Peace Democrats
–  Called
Copperheads by
Republicans
•  New York City
Draft Riots
–  Summer of 1863
The Draft
1.  What were the provisions of the
Conscription Act?
2.  Why was the Civil War described as a “rich
man’s war and a poor man’s fight”?
3.  Violence broke out in several cities but was
indiscriminate. In NY, however, African
Americans were targeted. Why? Other
targets of violence in NY?
4.  What were the effects of the NY draft riots?
Siege at Vicksburg
May 19 - July 4, 1863
Battle of Gettysburg
July 1 - 3, 1863
Sherman s March
The Election of 1864
Surrender at Appomattox
April 9, 1865
Lee
Grant
Lincoln s Assassination
April 14, 1865
Ford s Theatre
Booth
Political Impacts of the War
1.  Republicans dominated Congress
2.  Expansion of Presidential Power
-Suspended the writ of habeas corpus
-Ex Parte Milligan (1866)
3. Supremacy of the federal gov t was
established
Economic Impacts of the War
1.  Tariffs, excise taxes, and an income tax
were used to finance the war
2.  Greenbacks were issued
3.  New class of millionaires emerged
Social Impacts of the War
1.  620,000 dead
2.  Women in the work force
3.  End of Slavery
-13th Amendment (Dec. 1865)
Reconstruction
1863-1877
Key Questions
1. How do we
bring the South
back into the
2. What branch
Union?
of government
should control
the process of
Reconstruction?
4. How do we
rebuild the
South after its
3. How do we
destruction
integrate and
during the
protect newlywar?
emancipated
black
freedmen?
Lincoln s 10% Plan
Congressional Opposition
Wade-Davis Bill (1864)
Sen. Wade
R-OH
Pocket
Vetoed
Rep. Davis
R-MD
Freedmen s Bureau
•  March 1865
•  Commissioner Oliver O. Howard
Johnson s 10%+ Plan
Congress breaks with Johnson
•  Johnson granted 13,500 special pardons
•  Southern Passage of Black Codes
•  Johnson s vetoes:
– Freedman s Bureau Bill
– 1866 Civil Rights Act
•  Midterm election of 1866
Congressional Reconstruction
•  14th Amendment
Reconstruction Act of 1867
Impeachment of Johnson
•  Tenure of Office Act
•  Impeached on Feb. 14, 1868
•  Acquitted by a vote of 35 to
19 on May 16, 1868
Edwin Stanton
Election of 1868
Vs.
Ulysses S. Grant (R)
Horatio Seymour (D)
15th Amendment
Amnesty Act of 1872
As a result many southern states began
electing Democrats back to office ousting
carpetbaggers & scalawags
Civil Rights Act of 1875
Abandonment of Reconstruction
•  Panic of 1873
•  Corruption of the Grant Administration
•  Election of 1876
–  Rutherford B. Hayes (R) vs. Samuel J. Tilden (D)
–  Compromise of 1877
Hayes
Tilden
The New South?
•  Still mostly one crop economy
•  Slavery replaced with sharecropping and tenant
farming
•  Little social & political progress
–  Ku Klux Klan (1866)
–  Poll taxes (1871) & Literacy tests (1890)
–  Grandfather clauses
–  Civil Rights Cases (1883)
–  Jim Crow laws (de jure segregation)
–  Plessy v. Ferguson (1896)
To what extent was
Reconstruction a
turning point in the
lives of African
Americans?