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What should happen to former Confederate
soldiers and to those in the former
Confederate government?
Absolute
pardon
PARDON = The act
of being forgiven for
an error or offense
Hanged for
treason
TREASON = The crime
of betraying one's
country by attempting
to kill the sovereign or
overthrow the
government
Reconstruction
SS8H6 The student will
analyze the impact of the Civil
War and Reconstruction on
Georgia.
c. Analyze the impact of
Reconstruction on Georgia
and other southern states,
emphasizing Freedmen’s
Bureau; sharecropping and
tenant farming; Reconstruction
plans; 13th, 14th, and 15th
amendments to the
constitution; Henry McNeal
Turner and black legislators;
and the Ku Klux Klan.
EQ: How did
Reconstruction affect the
South, specifically Georgia?
Reconstruction
Reconstruction = the process of transforming and
bringing back former Confederate states into the United
States after the Civil War
Before
After
Reconstruction is like reconstructive
surgery!
Reconstructive surgery = the use of surgery to restore the
form and function of the body
RECONSTRUCTION
So, we struggle to put
the pieces back
together again…
So, we struggle to
put the pieces back
together again…
“It is more honorable to repair a wrong than persist
~ Thomas Jefferson, author of The Declaration and 3rd US President
in it.”
President Lincoln’s Plan
*Lincoln wanted to rebuild and
return the south to the Union as
soon as possible
*His plan was called the 10%
plan
*“Reconstruction” would have
two parts:
1. Southerners would be
pardoned after taking an oath of
allegiance;
2. When 10% of voters had
taken the oath, the state could
rejoin the Union and form a state
Where does President Lincoln’s Reconstruction Plan
fall on the continuum below?
Absolute
pardon
PARDON = The
act of being
forgiven for an
error or offense
Hanged for
treason
TREASON = The
crime of betraying
one's country by
attempting to kill the
sovereign or
overthrow the
government
President Lincoln’s Plan
Lincoln’s plan to
reconstruct the South was
challenged by “Radical
Republicans” who thought
the South should be more
severely punished.
The Radical Republicans
wanted to make sure the
freedmen retained their
new rights.
"Honest Abe".
Freed the
slaves. Held
the Union
together.
Wise and
kind. Was
responsible
for the
winning the
greatest
struggle that
the United
States ever
faced.
A Life Cut Short…
Lincoln was
assassinated
in April 1865
during a play
at Ford’s
Theater by
actor John
Wilkes
Booth.
Vice
President
Andrew
Johnson
took over as
President.
•
Vice President,
Andrew Johnson,
became
president.
Johnson’s
Plan
• He continued
Lincoln’s
Reconstruction
plan, however,
he believed
some more
extreme
measures
needed to be
taken, such as:
1. He did not allow
former
THE 13TH
AMMENDMENT
** Outlawed slavery
** Former
Confederate states
HAD to ratify in
order to be “fully
Reconstructed” and
allowed back into
the Union.
President Johnson’s Plan con’t.
Southern states also had to:
3. Cancel (nullify) documents saying they seceded
4. Promise not to repay money borrowed during the
war.
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Johnson named temporary governors & told them to
hold new elections and create new state
constitutions.
Effects of President Johnson’s Plan
Many Southern state constitutions did not meet
minimum requirements, and President Johnson
granted 13,500 special pardons.
EFFECT?
=
Pardoned, were wealthy planters in charge
before the Civil War were re-elected and in
control of state government again!
With these wealthy, white, Southern
Democrats back in power, there is a
revival of southern defiance and the
creation of
BLACK
CODES!
Black Codes
Black Codes were laws passed by former Confederate
states to keep whites in power and freedmen from having
the same rights as whites.
Didn’t allow African Americans: the same jobs as whites, the
right to vote, the right to marry a white person, or the right to
testify or serve on a jury.
Georgia’s black codes were less strict than those in other states.
In Georgia African Americans:
Could:
Buy and Sell Property
Sue people in court
Could not:
Serve as Jurors
Testify against whites in court