aim: how will we rebuild the south’s ruined economy and promise the rights of freed slaves?
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Aim: How will we rebuild the South’s ruined economy and promise the rights of freed slaves?. Homework: Quiz on Reconstruction next class! . The years following the Civil War (1865-1877) are known as the RECONSTRUCTION PERIOD. . WARTIME RECONSTRUCTION. Lincoln’s Ten Percent Plan. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
Aim: How will we rebuild the South’s ruined economy and promise the rights of freed slaves?Homework: Quiz on Reconstruction next class!
The years following the Civil War (1865-1877) are known as the RECONSTRUCTION PERIOD.
WARTIME RECONSTRUCTION
Lincoln’s Ten Percent Plan 1. If states abolish slavery and provide an
education for African Americans they will gain representation in congress.
2. If 10% of whites take an oath to guarantee abolition they will JOIN THE UNION!
3. Compensation guaranteed for lost property.
He NEVER discussed with Congress about this!
Radical Reconstructionist Lead by Thaddeus Stevens and Charles Sumner- Said the Confederates committed war crimes
Wade-Davis Bill 1864 Required 50% of voters to take an
“ironclad” oath that they never voluntarily supported the Confederacy.
13th Amendment 1865, “Neither
slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as punishment for a crime where of the party shall have been duly convicted shall exist with in the United States.”
1865, President Lincoln was assassinated by John Wilkes Boothe.
Andrew Johnson becomes Presiden.t
Freedman’s Bureau 1866 Passed by
congress to help freed slaves
Helped find them jobs, have food, clothing, shelter, and start and education.
Freedman’s Bureau seen through the South’s eyes.
Freedman Bureau school
Presidential Reconstructi
on
Johnson’s Reconstruction Plan 1. pardon southerners who took the
oath
2. Recognized new state governments
3. Appointed temporary governors to remaining 7 states
What happens next… Congress rejects
plan and refuses to seat newly elected Southern congressman.
South aims to restore old ways: Many limited vote
to white men Southern states
enforce the BLACK CODES
Black Codes Guarantee stable
labor supply now that blacks were emancipated
Restore old race relations
Make African Americans Sharecroppers.
Sharecropper: tenant housing for work
• Congress passes bill to allow freedman’s bureau to continue
Johnson VETOS the BillCongress sought to overturn the Black Codes by Passing the Civil Rights Act 1866
Johnson used his veto power to block the law.
Radical Reconstruction
14th Amendment Equality for all
citizens Southern states
would lose seats in the house if they did not allow Blacks to vote
IMPEACHMENT due to: Power struggle between Congress and the President
15th Amendment 1868- Ulysses S.
Grant is president: forbidding states from denying suffrage on the grounds of race, color, or previous servitude.
14th
And 15th AmendmentsStill contain LOOPHOLES.