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Post 1865: Effects of the War
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Reconstruction Vocab
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Freedman’s Bureau
Black Codes
KKK
13,14,15 Amendments
Jim Crow
Segregation
Sharecropping
Radical
Republicans/Plan/Wa
de Davis Bill
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Lincoln Plan
Johnson Plan
Compromise of 1877
impeachment
Reconstruction
poll tax
literacy test
grandfather clause
Major Questions After the War
• How should the south be rebuilt?
• How should the states that seceded be
brought back into the Union?
• How should former slaves be incorporated
into the country as freed men and women?
• How would you answer these questions?
• Think-Pair-Share
Our Goals
• Analyze the
effectiveness of
Reconstruction
• Interpret the effect
Reconstruction had
on the freed slaves.
Goals for Recon.
• Reunite the Union
peacefully
• Help freed slaves get
their lives together
• Rebuild the South
Reconstruction
What will be done when the war is over?
Reconstruction - The period following the
Civil War in which Congress passed laws
designed to rebuild the country and bring the
Southern states back into the Union.
Conditions After the War
• North
– Economy strong
– A few battlefields in
ruins
– Factories become more
popular as workplaces
• South
– The South was in bad,
bad shape.
– Backbone of the
economy outlawed
– Ku Klux Klan formed
– Many people homelessthey lost everything.
– Many move North
President Abraham Lincoln
• Lincoln wanted the country to come back together peacefully.
• Lincoln’s plan was created in 1863, about two years before the
end of the war.
• At the time of his death, the war was just ending and he was
not able to put his ideas into practice.
The Ten Percent Plan
• 10% of voters in the seceded states must swear loyalty under
oath to the Union.
• The seceded states must abolish slavery.
Lincoln’s Assassination
• John Wilkes Booth
– Southern Sympathizer
– Famous Actor
• Ford’s Theatre
• http://www.history.c
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President Andrew Johnson
• Wanted to be strict with the States that had rebelled, but
ended up making it relatively easy for them.
• Allowed for segregation of the races.
Johnson Plan
• The majority of white men from formerly Confederate states
must swear loyalty to the United States.
• Formerly Confederate states must ratify the 13th
Amendment.
• Former Confederate officials may hold office and vote.
President Johnson’s Plan
• https://www.youtube.
com/watch?v=ptXRF
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• First president to
have an impeachment
trial.
Radical Republicans
• Radical republicans, often abolitionists, represented a
large part of Congress.
• These Congressmen wanted to be strict with the States
that had rebelled.
• They also wanted to protect the newly freed slaves.
Reconstruction Act
• Formerly Confederate states must disband their state
governments.
• Formerly Confederate states must write new state
constitutions.
• Formerly Confederate states must ratify the 14th Amendment
• Formerly Confederate states must allow African Americans to
vote.
Central Question:
• Why was the Radical Republican plan for
Reconstruction considered “Radical”?
Vocab Words
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Freedman’s Bureau
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Black Codes
Radical Republicans/Plan/Wade
Davis Bill
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KKK
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Lincoln Plan
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13,14,15 Amendments
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Johnson Plan
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Jim Crow
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impeachment
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Segregation
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Sharecropping
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Reconstruction
The Freedman’s Bureau
• Agency to help former
slave integrate
themselves into
freedom.
• Helped settle them
onto land confiscated
from the Confederacy.
• http://www.history.c
om/topics/blackhistory/freedmensbureau/videos
• Sharecropping: Black
families would rent
land from white
plantation owners by
giving them a portion
of their crop at the
end of the year.
Jim Crow Laws
• Allowed for the
Segregation of black
and white
• Ku Klux Klan
• http://www.history.c
om/topics/ku-kluxklan/videos/the-kkk
• Black Codes
• Legislation passed by
Southern legislatures
to limit the freedoms
of colored people
• Poll Tax, Literacy Test
• Segregation
• The legal separation
of the races
• Sharecropping
• Allowed for freed
slaves to continue to
work the land, giving
the owner a portion of
the crops and using
whatever is leftover
for themselves.
• Impeachment
• The removal of a
president from office
• Military occupation of
the South
• Union troops were
sent to oversee
Reconstruction and
the fair treatment of
the slaves…
• Compromise of 1877
• Ended Reconstruction
• Pulled troops out of
the South
The New Amendments
• The 13th Amendment
• Abolishes slavery and
involuntary servitude,
except in punishment
of crime.
The New Amendments
• The 14th Amendment
• The 15th Amendment
• All people born in the • "right of citizens of
United States are
the United States to
legally citizens.
vote shall not be
denied or abridged by
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