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Reconstruction
Andrew Johnson
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13
Amendment
• Section 1. Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude,
except as a punishment for crime where of the party
shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the
United States, or any place subject to their
jurisdiction.
• Section 2. Congress shall have the power to enforce
this article by appropriate legislation.
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13
Amendment
• Abolishes slavery in all of the U.S.A.
• December 18, 1865
Civil rights act
• 1866 Republican congress passed Civil Rights Act.
• Declared all persons born in the United States to be
citizens regardless of race.
Civil rights act
OVERIDE
• 1866 Republican congress passed Civil Rights Act.
• Declared all persons born in the United States to be
citizens regardless of race.
VETO!!
overide
• 1st time congress overrides a presidential veto for a
major law.
• The Republican controlled Congress takes over
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14
Amendment
• Section 1. All persons born or naturalized in the
United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof,
are citizens of the United States and of the State
wherein they reside. 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.
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14
Amendment
• Anyone born in the United States is a U.S. citizen
regardless of race.
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14
Amendment
• With the support of Andrew Johnson the ExConfederate states resisted Reconstruction
• Ex-Confederate states refused to ratify the 14th
amendment giving former slaves citizenship
Reconstruction act
of 1867
• Passed because the Radical Republicans and the
Moderate Republicans worked together.
• Begins a period known as “Radical Reconstruction”
• Video Clip: Radical Reconstruction
Reconstruction act
of 1867
• Divides the South into 5 military districts, each run by
an army commander.
Reconstruction act
of 1867
• Divides the South into 5 military districts, each run by
an army commander.
• The prewar leaders lost the right to vote.
• Southern states could enter the Union by:
1. Approving new state constitutions that gave all men the
right to vote
2. Ratifying the 14th Amendment
In the south
• Poor farmers take control of the government
• Blacks are registered to vote by the Freedmen’s Bureau.
• ¾ of elected officials are Republicans
Carpetbaggers
Northerners who came South
and were elected to Congress
¼ of all Republican Congressmen
were “Carpetbaggers”
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14 black Congressmen and 2 black Senators
were elected during Reconstruction
Johnson drags his
feet
IMPEACHED
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15
Amendment
• Section 1. The right of citizens of the United States
to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United
States or by any State on account of race, color, or
previous condition of servitude.
• Section 2. The Congress shall have power to enforce
this article by appropriate legislation.
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15
Amendment
• Guarantees voting rights to citizens regardless of race
or previous servitude.
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