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RECONSTRUCTION 1865-1877
• The period after the
Civil War when
Congress was making
laws about how to put
the country back
together and
• how to allow the
southern states back
into the union
Should coming back into the Union be easy
or hard?
• Lincoln/Johnson plan
• EASY-Forgive
• 10% swear loyalty oath
and
• Approve 13th amendment
(freeing the slaves)
• Radical Republicans
• HARD - Punish
• Majority swear loyalty
oath
• No former congressmen
or confederate generals
can be in Congress
• Blacks have to be able to
vote
1. To put a government official on trial
2. Made African Americans citizens
3. Wanted to make coming back into the union
difficult
4. President after Lincoln was killed
5. Amendment that outlawed slavery
6. Laws that said blacks couldn’t have guns or
vote
7. Law passed by congress that split the south
into military districts ruled by union generals
8. Government Agency that gave blacks food and
taught blacks to read
9. Gave blacks the right to vote
Andrew Johnson
• Abraham Lincoln’s
vice-president
• Became the new
president when
Lincoln was killed
• Was hated by the
Radical republicans
because he was too
easy on the South
• Was impeached but
was not removed
from office
Veto: presidential power to stop a
law passed by Congress
• Over-ride a Veto
• Need 66% or 2/3 of
the votes to over-ride
• Sentence: The
Congress over-rode
the president’s Veto
• Senators that wanted
to punish the
southern states for
the Civil War,
• give rights to blacks
and
• make it really hard for
southern states to
come back into the
Union
• Voted to impeach
Andrew Johnson but
did not remove him
• Congress added the 13th Amendment to
the Constitution. This law officially
outlawed slavery in the United States.
Freedman’s Bureau
• groups of government
workers who went to
the south and set up
schools to teach
blacks to read and
helped the former
slaves get things like
medical attention and
support
Black Codes
• policies that white
people in the
Southern states made
up, things like blacks
can’t have guns, or
blacks can’t vote,
blacks can’t own land,
etc. to try to keep
black people
powerless
• “all persons born or
naturalized in the
United States” were
citizens and therefore
entitled to equal
protection of the law.
Military Districts
15th Amendment
• gave people the right
to vote regardless of
“race, color, or
previous condition of
servitude”.
Jim Crow Laws
• Laws passed by
southern states that
separated the races
• A secret society of
whites in the south
that put on costumes
and did things like kill
black people,
• burned churches or
• burned crosses to
scare African
Americans to not vote
Lynch or Lynching
• Regular people – not
police
• taking someone and
hanging them without
a trial
• Some people tried to take advantage of
the situation. Northerners, known as
carpetbaggers, moved to the South to
buy cheap land and start businesses. This
angered many Southerners.
• Tilden the Democrat
gets more popular
votes than the
republican Hayes
• Some Electoral votes
are disputed so
Election of 1876
Democrats decide to
give the presidency to
the Republicans in
exchange for the
government taking the
troops out of the south
Question:
• Now that the federal
troops are gone
•
• How are blacks going
to be treated?
Redemption: Southern Whites taking
back rule of the South
• 1.__________________________ the amendment that gave freed
slaves all the rights that come with citizenship
• 2. _________________________racist policies set up by
southerners that include things like, blacks couldn’t have guns,
serve on juries, live inside city limits, marry whites, etc.
• 3. ________________________ the unpopular president at the
beginning of the Reconstruction period
• 4. ________________________ were the members in Congress
that wanted to punish the south and make re-entry to the union
difficult
• 5. ________________________ the amendment to the constitution
that outlawed slavery
• 6. ________________________ the act of congress that broke the
south up into military districts and forced troops on the southern
states
• 7. _______________________ whites from the north who moved
south to make money during Reconstruction
• 8. _______________________ the event that pretty much ended
the period known as “Reconstruction”
• 9. _______________________ an agency of northerners who went
to the south to do things like provide education and health care for
the blacks
• 10. ______________________ the amendment that gave freed
slaves the right to vote
• 11. _____________________ major goal of the KKK
• 12._____________________ to put a president on trial in the
Senate
• 13. ____________________ reason Reconstruction might be
considered a success
• 14. ____________________ reason Reconstruction might be
considered a failure