Reconstruction 1865-1877

Reconstruction Goals•Re-establishment of the southern state governments.•Translate abolition of slavery into social, political and economic equality for former slaves.

Essential Questions

• To what extent did the Reconstruction Amendments change life for former slaves?

• To what extent did the Supreme Court expedite or hinder change for former slaves?

• Who would or would not benefit from the change in the power structure that was advocated by the Radical Republicans?

• To what extent did Reconstruction succeed in accomplishing the stated goals?

Lincoln 10 Percent Plan

Wade-Davis Bill50% of voters take oath

Civil War/Reconstruction Amendments

13th - Prohibition of slavery

14th – Defines citizenship, Due process, Equal Protection of Laws, Confederate leaders barred from holding

public office

15th – Universal male suffrage (Women’s rights activists upset over lack of suffrage in either 14th or 15 Amendment)

Freedmen’s Bureau

Carpetbaggers

Presidential Reconstruction

Black Codes

Sharecropping

Radical/Military Reconstruction

Johnson Impeachment(Office of Tenure Act)

Grant’s Election and the Grand Army of the Republic (GAR)

Waving the “Bloody Shirt”

Credit-Mobilier Scandal

“Boss” Tweed and Tammany Hall

Greenback Party

Ku Klux Klan

Enforcement Acts

Civil Rights Act of 1875

Hayes-Tilden Election of 1876

Compromise of 1877 and the End of Reconstruction

Reconstruction Evaluated?Pros – Civil War Amendments, Freedmen’s Bureau, Civil Rights Act of 1875Cons – Sharecropping, Jim Crow, Black Codes, KKK, Government Scandals