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The Changing US -Tension between agriculture and industry -Processed food, ready-made clothes -Hatred between north and south -What to do with the freed slaves -Federal government held the power What happens when you break the rules? • How severe should the punishment be? – Conquered province or business as usual? • How soon should the punishment be? – Immediately or cool down? Key Questions 1. How do we bring the South back into the Union? 2. How do we rebuild the South after its destruction during the war? 4. What branch of government should control the process of Reconstruction? 3. How do we integrate and protect newlyemancipated black freedmen? RECONSTRUCTION THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENTS PLAN TO REBUILD AND REESTABLISH THE STATES OF THE FORMER CONFEDERACY THREE PLANS FOR RECONSTRUCTION President Lincoln’s Plan When 10% of the 1860 voters took an oath of allegiance to the Union they could form new state governments and send representation to Congress Wanted to bring the South back as quickly as possible- never left Took a very lenient approach President Andrew Johnson -Anti-Aristocrat and planter -Agreed with Lincoln that states had never legally left the Union. -No equality for freed slaves President Johnson’s Plan •More lenient than Lincoln’s Plan •Take a simple oath of allegiance •Offered Amnesty to nearly everyone •Amnesty- Official Pardon •Except rich planters RADICAL RECONSTRUCTION (Congressional) Reconstruction Act of 1867 In order for a state to re-enter the Union they must: 1. Ratify the 13th Amendment 2. Ratify the 14th Amendment 3. Provide for universal manhood suffrage RADICAL RECONSTRUCTION (Congressional) • • • • 10 states divided into 5 military districts New constitution approved by majority Ratify 13th and 14th Amendments “ironclad oath” = never aided confederacy Carpetbaggers & Scalawags • Carpetbagger = Northerners who went south after the Civil War • Scalawag = Southern whites who cooperated with carpetbaggers Emancipation Proclamation • Freed slaves in states that seceded from the Union immediately Freedmen’s Bureau (1865) Many former northern abolitionists risked their lives to help southern freedmen. Freedmen’s Bureau developed to feed and cloth the poor South The Amendments 13th Amendment Ratified in December, 1865. Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States or any place subject to their jurisdiction. Ended Slavery. 14th Amendment Ratified in July, 1868. Provide a constitutional guarantee of the rights and security of freed people. Civil Rights for all people born in the United States Southern states would be punished for denying the right to vote to black citizens! 15th Amendment Ratified in 1870. 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. Right to vote for all of the freed slaves. Women’s rights groups were furious that they were not granted the vote! Growing Northern Alarm! Many Southern state constitutions fell short of minimum requirements. Johnson granted 13,500 special pardons. Revival of southern defiance. BLACK CODES Black Codes Purpose: Guarantee stable labor supply now that blacks were emancipated. Restore pre-emancipation system of labor and race relations. Unjust laws Forced many blacks to become sharecroppers [tenant farmers]. JIM CROW LAWS • SOUTHERN SOCIETY BECAME INCREASINGLY SEGREGATED • MADE SEGREGATION OFFICIAL IN MOST AREAS OF THE SOUTH • LAWS WERE DEVELOPED TO KEEP AFRICAN AMERICAN INFERIOR • SOCIETY BECAME COMPLETELY DIVIDED BY COLOR THE KU KLUX KLAN -FORMED AFTER THE CIVIL WAR -DISENFRANCHISED PLANTERS AND CONFEDERATE SOLDIERS -AIMED AT KEEPING AFRICANAMERICANS INFERIOR The “Invisible Empire of the South” SHARECROPPING -FARMER AND FAMILY WORKED A PLOT OF LAND -RECEIVED A SHARE OF THE CROPS IN RETURN - A “GLORIFIED SYSTEM OF SLAVERY” Sharecropping Tenancy & the Crop Lien System Furnishing Merchant Tenant Farmer Landowner Loan tools and seed up to 60% interest to tenant farmer to plant spring crop. Plants crop, harvests in autumn. Rents land to tenant in exchange for ¼ to ½ of tenant farmer’s future crop. Farmer also secures food, clothing, and other necessities on credit from merchant until the harvest. Merchant holds “lien” {mortgage} on part of tenant’s future crops as repayment of debt. Turns over up to ½ of crop to land owner as payment of rent. Tenant gives remainder of crop to merchant in payment of debt. Panic of 1873 • Gave Americans something else to worry about 1876 Presidential Tickets 1876 Presidential Election The Political Crisis of 1877 “Corrupt Bargain” PLESSY VS. FERGUSON -SUPREME COURT RULED SEGREGATION WAS LEGAL IF THERE WERE EQUAL FACILITIES -KNOWN AS THE “SEPARATE BUT EQUAL DOCTRINE” -LEGALIZED RACISM (SPREAD TO ALL AREAS OF LIFE )