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Radical Reconstruction Focus Activity 2 Major questions following the Civil War • How to rebuild the South • How to bring Southern states back to the United States • How to bring former slaves into the United States as free people 3 Consequences for Confederate States Should people who fought against the United States be allowed to become citizens? Should they be punished? What should be done to Southern state governments that fought against the U.S.? 4 Freedmen How would freed men and women be treated in the Southern states? What do you think were some of the major challenges faced by former slaves? 5 RECONSTRUCTION • The process of readmitting former Confederate states to the Union • Lasted from 1865 -1877 • Also involved rebuilding these war damaged states • Had to answer the question of how to integrate former slaves into post civil war America 6 PRESIDENTIAL RECONSTRUCTION • At first, the Presidents took charge of Reconstruction • Lincoln: 10% Plan offered a full pardon IF… • 10% of a state’s population swore an Oath of Loyalty • A state would agree that slavery was illegal • Johnson: His was sympathetic to the South • Declare secession illegal • Ratify the 13th Amendment • Refuse to pay Confederate debts 7 CONGRESSIONAL RECONSTRUCTION • “Radical” Republicans controlled Congress and wanted to be much harsher on the South • Took control in 1867 • Put the states under military control until they fully agreed to rejoin the Union • To be readmitted states had to: • Write a new state constitution supporting citizenship for former slaves 8 • Give African-American men the right to vote QUESTIONS TO CONSIDER… • Which of these plans do you feel would be more likely to unite the country after the Civil War? • Which of these plans is the most fair and just? • What do you predict actually happened during Reconstruction? 9 CIVIL WAR AMENDMENTS FOLDABLE! 13TH AMENDMENT WHEN: 1865 WHAT: Banned slavery throughout the United States EFFECTS: Freed African-Americans and paved the way for Citizenship 11 14TH AMENDMENT WHEN: 1866 WHAT: Citizenship to anyone born or naturalized within the United States, except Native Americans EFFECTS: Opened the way for AfricanAmericans to have Constitutional (Civil) Rights 12 15TH AMENDMENT WHEN: 1870 WHAT: Gave African-American men the right to vote EFFECTS: Paved the way for AfricanAmerican political representation and turned attention to woman’s suffrage 13
