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U.S. History Survey
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Notes #13
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The Era of Reconstruction (1865-1877)
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Chap. 16
Final year of the Civil War (1865):
Thirteenth Amendment (Feb., 1865)
The Freedmen’s Bureau
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Freedman’s Bureau records:
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http://www.archives.gov/research/african-americans/freedmens-bureau/
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Reconstruction:
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I. The President vs. The Congress
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Abraham Lincoln’s Reconstruction Plan: “Ten Percent” Plan.
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States admitted:
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Virginia, Tennessee, Arkansas, Louisiana
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Lincoln Assassinated-April 14, 1865
President Andrew Johnson’s Reconstruction Plan
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Race Riots (1866):
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The “Radical” Republicans
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Radical (advocates sweeping changes)
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Thaddeus Stevens
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Thomas Nast
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“Civil Rights”
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The Fourteenth Amendment (1866)
Reconstruction Act of 1867
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The Fifteenth Amendment
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suffrage
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II. Reconstruction in the South
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The Republican Party Coalition
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1) White Northerners who came South
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-referred to as “Carpetbaggers”
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2) White Southerners who didn’t vote for the Democrats
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- “Scalawags”
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3)The Freedmen
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voted Republican
Southern Democrats: party of most Whites
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The Sharecropping System
The Rise of the Ku Klux Klan
III. Reconstruction in Grant’s Administration
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Ulysses S. Grant
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Elected 1868
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The Ku Klux Klan Act (1871)
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IV. The End of Reconstruction
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The Election of 1876
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Samuel J. Tilden (Dem)
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Rutherford B. Hayes (Republican)
“Compromise of 1877”
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Hayes becomes President on March 4, 1877
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The “Redeemers”
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The Legacy of Reconstruction: The “Solid South:” “Solid” (together) for the Democratic
Party.