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Reconstruction Section 1 • Lincoln’s plan called for former Confederate citizens to pledge loyality to the US Constitution • President Johnson appointed W.W. Holden as governor in May of 1865. • The NC convention of 1865 decided not to repay war debts. • Black Codes were laws that limited the freedoms of formerly enslaved peoples that said things like AA who didn’t have a job could be jailed. • Lincoln issued a Proclamation of Amnesty and Reconstruction to allow all but a few southerners a full pardon. • The 13th Amendment outlawed Slavery. • Southern states had to ratify the 13th Amendment to get back into the Union. • Reconstruction was the rebuilding of the Southern States in order to bring them back into the Union Section 2 • Republicans in Congress opposed the policies of President Johnson • Radical Republicans wanted to punish the former Confederate states. • The Joint Committee on Reconstruction wanted to replace Johnson’s plan for Reconstruction. • The Reconstruction act of 1867 returned former confederate states to military rule. • The Freedman’s Bureau helped supply food, medicine, and other emergency goods to Southerners after the war. FB also helped former slaves by providing education • African American votes helped Grant become president • W.W. Holden helped organize the Republican Party in NC. • 14th Amendment defined citizenship in a way to include AA’s, and also defined civil rights of all. • Impeachment is accusing one of wrongdoing. • NC was governed by a governor and a federal general. • 15th Amendment forbid denial to vote based on race, color, or previous condition of servitude. Section 3 • Carpetbaggers were northerners who carried suitcases made of carpeting that would put in government and were corrupt. • Southern Republicans were known as scalawags by their enemies who believed that anyone who worked for government was a crook or traitor. • As wealthy planters were loosing control of government in NC it was becoming more democratic. (meaning more people had a voice in government) • The Civil Rights Act of 1871 gave Americans the right to challenge laws that restrict rights guaranteed by the Constitution. • The KKK was a secret society of exconfederates that used intimidation to try to return political power to white men. Section 4 • The period when Holden was governor in NC could be characterized the word corruption. • Wyatt Outlaw and John Stephens were murdered by the KKK. • Governor Holden used a militia in Alamance and Caswell counties try to stop the KKK from intimidating and killing it’s opponents. AKA the Kirk-Holden War. • After the Kirk-Holden War, Holden was convicted of corrupt government practices and impeached, or removed from office. • President Rutherford B. Hayes withdrew the army from southern states in 1877. • By this point many Republicans had lost interest in helping AA’s. • The “Redeemers” passed taxes on things like tools, farm animals and voting, that were especially painful to AA’s and poor whites. The End of Reconstruction