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Battles &
People
Quiz
TOMORROW!
Reconstruction
PROJECT
The Civil War is over...NOW WHAT?
DATE
1865 - 1877
CLIENT
THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
The war
destroyed...
2/3 of Southern shipping
9,000 miles of railroads
654,000 soldiers
ATLANTA 1865
BLACK SOUTHERNERS WERE
HOMELESS AND STARVING,
PLANTATIONS OWNERS WERE BROKE
AND WITHOUT LABOR, AND POOR
WHITE SOUTHERNERS COULDN’T
COMPETE WITH THE NEW FREEDMEN.
Lincoln’s got a Ten Percent
Plan!
A state could be readmitted to the Union
when the number of men who had taken
a loyalty oath equaled one tenth of the
number of voters in the 1860 presidential
election.
New state constitutions had to ban
slavery
States had to provide a free public
education to African Americans
But sadly...
it never fully went into effect.
On April 14, 1865, Lincoln
was shot in the back of the
head by John Wilkes Booth
while attending a
performance at Ford’s
Theatre.
LESSON TO BE LEARNED...
NEXT!
Andrew Johnson, the only
SOUTHERN senator to not
leave Congress after
secession, became
president.
during the first eight months of his term, AJ took advantage of COngress being in recess,
and rushed his own policies through for Reconstruction.
...which included allowing the
creation of Black Codes,
another name for slavery.
Allowed former slaves to...
marry other blacks
own personal property
sue and be sued
Did NOT allow them to...
serve on juries
vote
carry weapons without a license
hold public office
own land
travel without a permit
be out after curfew
required a former slave to buy a license to work
authorized the arrest and fining of unemployed blacks
allowed an employer to pay the fine of an unemployed black in
exchange for that person’s labor...sound familiar?
13th, 14th, & 15th
Amendments
FREE CITIZENS VOTE!
Reconstruction successes:
Republicans carried out their main
goals...
rebuilt the Union and repaired the war-torn South
stimulated economic growth in South, created new wealth in the
North
13th, 14th, and 15th amendments passed
Freedman’s Bureau helped newly freed blacks with education,
housing, and jobs
Southern states adopted public school systems
Failures...
blacks still in poverty, and lacked property, economic
opportunity, and political power
Anti-black organizations (Ku Klux Klan) prevented blacks from
voting
racism continued
Hiram Rhodes Revels
first black U.S.
senator from the
great state of
Mississippi