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Reconstruction 1865-1877 Restoring the Nation The South in Ruins at the End of the Civil War Destruction of Charleston, SC Rail Lines in Atlanta Still Burying the Dead One Year After the War at Cold Harbor, Virginia Andrew Johnson President 1865-1869 Andrew Johnson Born in Raleigh, NC-1806 Moved to Greenville, Tennessee as teenager Married Eliza McCardle of Greenville Tailor Tennessee General Assembly and Governor of Tennessee Only Southern US Senator Who Remained Loyal to the Union Selected as Lincoln’s running mate in 1864 Andrew Johnson Birthplace on the campus of NC State University, Raleigh Andrew Johnson Home Greenville, Tennessee 50 Miles West of Asheville Black Codes Laws that were passed by Southern Legislatures during Reconstruction that restricted the freedoms of former slaves Radical Republicans Members of Congress led by Thaddeus Stevens of Pennsylvania and Charles Sumner of Massachusetts who wanted stricter Reconstruction guidelines for the South Stevens Sumner 1865-13th Amendment to the US Constitution Legal Abolishment of Slavery in all states in the Union All Southern States were required to ratify this constitutional amendment for remittance to the Union 1866-14th Amendment to the United States Constitution Made all former slaves citizens of the United States All Southern States had to ratify this amendment for remittance back into the Union 15th Amendment to the United States Constitution The 15th Amendment Gave Black Males the Right to Vote The Radical Republican Reconstruction Plan Military Rule in the South William Holden NC’s Reconstruction Governor Raleigh Newspaper Owner Who Led Peace Movement During the Civil War for NC to Return to the Union He said that the “War was a rich man’s war and a poor man’s fight.” 1865- Appointed Military Governor by President Andrew Johnson Organized the Republican Party in NC 1868- North Carolina Is Readmitted to the Union Freedmen’s Bureau Federal program to aide the former slaves, especially the creation of African American schools Helping the South Magazine Drawing Showing Freedman’s Bureau Officer Protecting Black From an Angry White Mob in Alabama Ku Klux Klan Began in Pulaski,Tennessee by Former Confederate General Nathan Bedford Forrest Name Origin- Ku KlosGreek, “Circle” Reconstruction Era Objectives of the Klan 1. Restore law and order to the wartorn South 2. Protect Southern White Women from the Former Black Slaves 3. Return the South to White Rule 4. Promote White Supremacy 5. Promote Protestant Christianity The Klan Wanted Be Known as the Protector of the White Women of the South The Klan Idea of America-WASP W- Must Be White A- Anglo-(Ancestors from Northern Europe that had descended from the Anglo Saxon tribes that established themselves mostly in the British Isles by the early Dark Ages S-Saxon P- Protestant Christianity Poster By Southern Democrats Who Were Pushing For White Rule Southern “Jim Crow” Laws Laws passed by Southern Legislators to enforce segregation during Reconstruction and lasted until the 1960’s Thomas Rice, a white man portrayed a black man in a negative manner named Jim Crow. “Carpetbaggers” Northerners who moved to the South during Reconstruction and took advantage of Southerners. “Scalawags” *Southerners who blamed Southern Democrats for causing the Civil War *Southerners who voted for Republicans Thomas Nast 1874 CartoonRepublican Elephant Andrew Johnson’s Impeachment Charges The House of Representatives Brings 11 Counts of Impeachment The Major Charge Was that Andrew Johnson Did Not Have the Authority to Fire Secretary of War Edwin Stanton Without Congressional Approval Impeachment Hearing for Andrew Johnson UNITED STATES SENATE - ANDREW JOHNSON’ S IMPEACHMENT TRIAL-1868 The Senate Allows Andrew Johnson to Remain President By 1 Vote Andrew Johnson’s Grave Greenville, Tennessee •Andrew Johnson was elected to the United States Senate from Tennessee. • He is the only former President to be elected to the Senate. •He died in Carter County, Tennessee, 1875. His burial request was to be wrapped in an American flag and for his head to rest on a copy of the United States Constitution Ulysses S. Grant 18th President 1869-1877 Former Union General Weak President With Scandal in Administration Reconstruction Cartoon Is this a cartoon that would have been in a Southern or Northern Newspaper? Why? February, 1870- The Klan hanged an African American Republican Leader, Wyatt Outlaw on the grounds of the Alamance County Courthouse and a white Republican leader, John Stephens in Caswell County Governor Holden sends troops under former Union Colonel George Kirk to Caswell and Alamance Counties 100 citizens are arrested and held without habeas corpus (holding without charges) This leads to the General Assembly trying Governor Holden for Impeachment He’s Convicted of 6/8 charges and removed from office. He was first governor in American history to be impeached. Kirk- Holden War Stephens Governor Holden Reconstruction Progress in the South The End of Reconstruction-1877 Rutherford B. Hayes 19th President-(1877-1881)-Republican/Ohio Lucy Hayes Ended Reconstruction and Pulled All Military From the Former States of the Confederacy Did Not Allow Any Alcohol in the White House and was Given the Nickname “Lemonade Lucy.” She Began the Annual Easter Egg Hunt at the White House Has the South Reconstructed or Are We Still Not There??? Is the South different today? Has the South “Caught Up” with the rest of the nation in economics, education, and general standard of living? What evidence is there that the South can be truly be called “The New South?” What is still around from the Reconstruction Era 18651877? Charlotte Atlanta