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Impact and End of Reconstruction: Political, Economic, and Social Consequences

Explore the political, economic, and social impact of Reconstruction and the factors that led to its end. Learn about the Freedman's Bureau, Radical Republicans, Reconstruction plans, Andrew Johnson's impeachment, the Compromise of 1877, Black Codes, Ku Klux Klan, tenant farmers, sharecroppers, Jim Crow laws, and the Solid South.

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Impact and End of Reconstruction: Political, Economic, and Social Consequences

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  1. Objective 3.04 Analyze the political, economic, and social impact of Reconstruction on the nation and identify why Reconstruction came to an end.

  2. Freedman’s Bureau Offered assistance to the freed slaves, housing, education, food, clothing, registration to vote

  3. Radical Republicans Political Party in control during the period after the Civil War, they wanted to punish the South for their participation in the war, They were led by Thaddeus Stevens

  4. Reconstruction Plans Presidential and Congressional plans to rebuild the South after the Civil War

  5. Thaddeus Stevens Leader of the Radical Republicans in Congress after the Civil War

  6. Andrew Johnson Vice President under President Lincoln, became the 17th President of the US after Lincoln was Assassinated, became the first President to be impeached

  7. Tenure of Office Act Law enacted to keep President Johnson from replacing Radical Republicans in his cabinet, Johnson is impeached for violating this Act, ruled unconstitutional by the Supreme Court

  8. Johnson’s Impeachment President Johnson violates the Tenure of Office Act, Congress fails to remove Johnson from office by one vote

  9. Election of 1876/Compromise of 1877 Rutherford B. Hayes becomes President as a stipulation for ending military occupation of the South, ends reconstruction

  10. Scalawags Southerners that supported Northern Reconstruction

  11. Carpetbaggers Northerners that moved South during Reconstruction, supported the freed slaves, wanted to profit from the South

  12. Black Codes Similar the slave codes, laws that restricted the movements of African Americans in the South after the Civil War

  13. Ku Klux Klan Violent Organization formed after the Civil War by Southern War veterans to protect themselves from the Reconstruction Governments, Anti- Black, Anti-Catholic, Anti-immigrant, Anti-Carpet bagger, Anti-Scalawag, Anti- Jewish, Anti- Republican

  14. Tenant Farmers Farmers that work someone else’s land and pay rent based upon profits from the sale of the crop, one of the ways that freed slaves and poor whites made a living after the Civil War

  15. Sharecroppers Farmers that work someone else’s land in exchange for a portion of the crops, one of the ways that freed slaves made a living after the Civil War

  16. Jim Crow Laws Laws that segregated the races, separate water fountains, separate bathrooms, separate schools

  17. Whiskey Ring 1875 scandal where several Republican lawmakers took bribes from liquor taxes, this scandal and other scandals eventually led to the end of Reconstruction Governments

  18. Solid South Southern politics are dominated by Democrats from 1865 until the 1960’s

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