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Rival Plans for Reconstruction
ESSENTIAL QUESTION: How did the Radical
Republicans’ plans for Reconstruction differ from
Lincoln’s and Johnson’s?
TEKS 8C: Calculate percent composition and empirical and molecular formulas.
Learning Goals
• Explain why a plan was needed for
Reconstruction of the South.
• Compare the Reconstruction plans of Lincoln,
Johnson, and Congress.
• Discuss Johnson’s political difficulties and
impeachment.
Title: CH 5TEKS
SEC
1: Rival
Reconstruction
(EOC, Ch.2)
8C: Calculate
percent Plans
compositionfor
and empirical
and molecular formulas.
LEQ 1: How did the Radical Republicans’ plan for Reconstruction
differ from Lincoln’s and Johnson’s?
a. Why was a
plan needed
for
Reconstruction
of the south?
A plan of Reconstruction for the South
was formed.
• to help the South rejoin the Union
• to rebuild the South’s shattered
economy
• to create laws to protect freed
African Americans
African Americans were freed from slavery
but their rights were not guaranteed.
They
• did not have full citizenship
• could not vote
• did not have access to education
Title: CH 5TEKS
SEC
1: Rival
Reconstruction
(EOC, Ch.2)
8C: Calculate
percent Plans
compositionfor
and empirical
and molecular formulas.
LEQ 1: How did the Radical Republicans’ plan for Reconstruction
differ from Lincoln’s and Johnson’s?
b. How were
the
Reconstruction
plans of
Lincoln,
Johnson, and
Congress
different?
Lincoln’s Ten Percent Plan
•10 percent of state’s voter’s needed to take a
loyalty oath
•a state’s new constitution must have
abolished slavery
Radical Republicans pass the Wade-Davis
Bill
•required a majority of state’s pre-war voters
to swear loyalty to the Union
•required guarantees of African American
equality
Johnson’s Plan to Restore the Union
•He pardoned those who swore allegiance to
the Union and the Constitution
•Each Southern state needed to ratify the
Title: CH 5TEKS
SEC
1: Rival
Reconstruction
(EOC, Ch.2)
8C: Calculate
percent Plans
compositionfor
and empirical
and molecular formulas.
LEQ 1: How did the Radical Republicans’ plan for Reconstruction
differ from Lincoln’s and Johnson’s?
c. Why did
Congress vote
to impeach
Andrew
Johnson?
The South’s disregard of Reconstruction
efforts angered moderates and Radical
Republicans.
Congress passed new legislation over
President Johnson’s veto.
•the Civil Rights Act of 1866.
•the Fourteenth Amendment.
•the division of the South into five military
districts.
Eventually, the House voted to impeach
Johnson.
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• Equality under the law
for all citizens
The
Fourteenth
Amendment,
1868
• States that refused to
allow black people to
vote would risk losing
seats in the House of
Representatives
• Confederate officials
could not hold federal or
state offices
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Under a new President, Ulysses S. Grant,
Congress passed the Fifteenth Amendment.
The
Fifteenth
Amendment,
1870
No citizen can be
denied the right to
vote because of
“race, color, or
previous condition of
servitude.”
TEKS 8C: Calculate percent composition and empirical and molecular formulas.
TEKS 8C: Calculate percent composition and empirical and molecular formulas.
Ticket Out the Door
• At the bottom of your notes
worksheet please write a summary
explaining why a Reconstruction plan
for the South was necessary.
TEKS 8C: Calculate percent composition and empirical and molecular formulas.
Reconstruction in the South
ESSENTIAL QUESTION: What were the immediate
effects of Reconstruction?
TEKS 8C: Calculate percent composition and empirical and molecular formulas.
Learning Goals
• Explain how Republicans gained control of
southern state governments.
• Discuss how freedmen adjusted to freedom and
the South’s new economic system.
• Summarize efforts to limit African Americans’
rights and the federal government’s response.
Title: CH 5 SEC
2:Calculate
Reconstruction
inandthe
South
(EOC,
Ch.2)
TEKS 8C:
percent composition
empirical
and molecular
formulas.
LEQ 2: What were the immediate effects of Reconstruction?
a. How did
Republicans gain
control of
Southern state
governments?
Republicans gained control of southern state
governments through the ballot box.
• Thousands of black men exercised their new right
to vote.
• Many white southern men did not vote because
they refused to sign the required loyalty oath to the
Union.
scalawags: White southern men who had been locked
out of prewar politics by the wealthy
carpetbaggers: White and black northerners who
moved to the South to take advantage of the many
postwar opportunities there
Title: CH 5 SEC
2:Calculate
Reconstruction
inandthe
South
(EOC,
Ch.2)
TEKS 8C:
percent composition
empirical
and molecular
formulas.
LEQ 2: What were the immediate effects of Reconstruction?
b. How did
freedmen adjust
to freedom and
the South’s new
economic system?
• Reconstruction state constitutions mandated the
creation of the public school system.
• Reconstruction offered white and black women
opportunities they did not find in the North.
• Freed African Americans sought to build new
communities and improve their lives.
Title: CH 5 SEC
2:Calculate
Reconstruction
inandthe
South
(EOC,
Ch.2)
TEKS 8C:
percent composition
empirical
and molecular
formulas.
LEQ 2: What were the immediate effects of Reconstruction?
b. How did
freedmen adjust
to freedom and
the South’s new
economic system?
The sharecropping system often led
to a cycle of debt and poverty.
Title: CH 5 SEC
2:Calculate
Reconstruction
inandthe
South
(EOC,
Ch.2)
TEKS 8C:
percent composition
empirical
and molecular
formulas.
LEQ 2: What were the immediate effects of Reconstruction?
c. How did
southern whites
try to limit the
rights of African
Americans? How
did the federal
government
respond?
In reaction to Republican gains in the
South, violent groups, such as the Ku
Klux Klan, organized to terrorize
African Americans
The
Enforcement
Acts,
1870, 1871
The Enforcement Acts made it
a federal crime to interfere
with a citizen’s right to vote.
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End of Reconstruction
ESSENTIAL QUESTION: How and why did
Reconstruction end?
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Learning Goals
• Explain why Reconstruction ended.
• Evaluate the successes and failures of
Reconstruction.
Political Cartoons
Corruption in the
Grant Administration
Title: CH 5 SEC
3:Calculate
The End
Reconstruction
Ch.2)
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percentof
composition
and empirical and (EOC,
molecular formulas.
LEQ 3: How and why did Reconstruction end?
a. Why did the
public lose
confidence in
government?
Corruption weakens both state and federal
government.
•Grant’s administrations were marred by scandal.
Economic problems divert attention and erode
Republican resolve
•nationwide job loss
•bank failures
•economic depression in the North
Title: CH 5 SEC
3:Calculate
The End
Reconstruction
(EOC,
Ch.2)
TEKS 8C:
percentof
composition
and empirical and molecular
formulas.
LEQ 3: How and why did Reconstruction end?
b. Why did
Reconstruction
end?
Radical Republicans lost power.
Military operations in the South became too
expensive.
Supreme Court decisions gave more power
to the states.
• Slaughterhouse Cases: restricted the scope of
the 14th Amendment.
Southern whites known as Redeemers
worked together to “redeem,” or reclaim,
the South from northerners and blacks.
Title: CH 5 SEC
3:Calculate
The End
Reconstruction
(EOC,
Ch.2)
TEKS 8C:
percentof
composition
and empirical and molecular
formulas.
LEQ 3: How and why did Reconstruction end?
b. Why did
Reconstruction
end?
Congress resolved the disputed election of 1876 with
the Compromise of 1877.
• Rutherford B. Hayes became President.
• Federal troops withdrawn from the South.
• Southerner appointed to cabinet
• Southern states guaranteed federal subsidies
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The Civil War had a lasting effect on
state and national politics.
Republican Party
Democratic Party
• became known as the
party of Lincoln
• became the party of
industrial workers
• associated with freeing
the slaves
• came to dominate the
white South
• became the party of
big business
Title: CH 5 SEC
3:Calculate
The End
Reconstruction
(EOC,
Ch.2)
TEKS 8C:
percentof
composition
and empirical and molecular
formulas.
LEQ 3: How and why did Reconstruction end?
c. What were the
effects of
reconstruction?
• Union is restored.
• African Americans gain citizenship and voting
rights.
• South’s economy and infrastructure are improved.
• Southern states establish public school system.
• Ku Klux Klan and other groups terrorize African
Americans.
• Sharecropping system takes hold in the south.
TEKS 8C: Calculate percent composition and empirical and molecular formulas.