Reconstruction
The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly
Lincoln’s Vision
Ten Percent Plan
“With malice toward none,
with charity for all ...”
“... let us strive ... to bind
up the nation’s wounds ....”
Johnson’s
Reconstruction
Easy Reconstruction, but ..
“White men alone, must
manage the South.”
Vetoes Civil Rights Act of
1866
Ends Freedmen’s Bureau
Battles w/ Radical
Republicans in Congress
Impeachment
Checks and balances
“... it is the Right of the
People to alter or to
abolish ...”
first, but not only
impeachment of a President
New Amendments
Thirteenth Amendment, 1865
Black Codes
Mississippi Black Code, 1865
....All freedmen ... with no lawful employment or
business, or found unlawfully assembling ...
together ... shall be deemed vagrants [beggars],
and on conviction thereof shall be fined ... fifty
dollars, ... and imprisoned at the discretion of the
court....
Louisiana Black Code, 1865)
No negro who is not in the military service shall be
allowed to carry fire-arms, or any kind of weapons
… without the special written permission of his
employers....
New Amendments
Thirteenth Amendment, 1865
Fourteenth Amendment, 1868
Fifteenth Amendment, 1870
Reconstruction
What Actually Happens ....
So This Is Kinda Important ....
Reconstruction
Reconstruction Act (1867)
Divided South into 5 Military Districts
Military
5 Military Districts
Military Reconstruction
Reconstruction Act (1867)
Divided South into 5 Military Districts
Forced states to ratify 14th Amendment
Allowed black men the right to vote
Denied voting to former confederates
The Death of
Reconstruction
Military can’t stay forever
Bitter southern resentment
White terrorism
Disputed election of 1876
Compromise of 1877
Just en
Reconstruction reversed
The North Won the War BUT ...
The South Won Reconstruction
Legacy of Reconstruction
Voting restrictions
13th Amendment
14th Amendment
Poll taxes
Literacy tests
Grandfather clauses
15th Amendment
Jim Crow Laws
Southern Industry
Plessy v. Ferguson
Separate but equal
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