Era of Reconstruction
Lincoln’s view of the war
The war is about a new birth of freedom.
Both the North and the South bore responsibility for the conflict.
States cannot secede.
Freedman’s Bureau
Designated for war refugees, the bureau provided clothing, medical care, food and education for many freed slaves with surplus army supplies.
The Wade Davis Bill
Congress would oversee reconstruction of the South
Demand the majority of white men from the former Confederacy to take an oath of allegiance.
Slavery must be abolished in each state.
Former Confederate officials are prohitted in voting or holding office.
Lincoln vetoed this bill. It was apparent that Lincoln would collide with Congress in his second term.
Condition of the Southern States after the War
Lincoln’s Plan for Reconsrtuction
Southerners had to take an oath of loyalty to the United States and accept the Union’s proclamations concerning slavery.
Both President Lincoln and President Johnson insisted up southern approval of
of the Thirteenth Amendment
To blind the nation together and create and create a lasting peace reflects President Lincoln’s hope for reconstruction
The Radical Republicans objected to President Lincoln’s plan for Reconstruction
because they thought it was a threat to congressional authority
Johnson’s Plan
Both President Lincoln and President Johnson insisted up southern approval of
of the Thirteenth Amendment
Johnson freely gave pardons to southern officials
White southerners began to enact laws that gave white power over African
Americans
13th Amendment
Permanently abolished slavery in all of the United States
Blacks in the South
Exercise their new liberty
Find Relatives
Church
Poor Whites
Black Codes and Discrimination
Carpetbaggers
Northerners who moved to the South and were distrusted and gaining an unfair advantage over the native residents.
Scalawags
White southerners who supported Reconstruction
Civil Rights Bill of 1866
Mid-term Election of 1866
Reconstruction Act 1867
14th Amendment
Granted citizenship to all persons born in the United States except Native Americans
Tenure of Office Act
Impeachment
Military Reconstruction
15th Amendment
Southern black men voted for the first time
Election 1868
Ulysses S. Grant won several Southern states because the presence of Union
troops in the South allowed African Americans to vote
KKK
The main goals during the Reconstruction was to prevent African Americans from
exercising their rights and drive Republicans out of the South. Congress responded to this terror insurgency by passing the Enforcement Act.
Education
Southern Homestead Act
Southern Agriculture
Sharecropping
Tenant Farming
Post war Industrial Growth
Women in the South
End of Reconstruction
Reconstruction taxes
Corruption
Election of 1877
Compromise of 1877
The New South
Failures of Reconstruction
Successes of Reconstruction