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Chapter 17: Assassination and Reconstruction

Chapter 17: Assassination and Reconstruction. Chapter Focus Questions. What were the competing political plans for reconstructing the defeated Confederacy? How difficult was the transition from slavery to freedom for African Americans?

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Chapter 17: Assassination and Reconstruction

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  1. Chapter 17: Assassination and Reconstruction

  2. Chapter Focus Questions • What were the competing political plans for reconstructing the defeated Confederacy? • How difficult was the transition from slavery to freedom for African Americans? • What was the political and social legacy of Reconstruction in the southern states? • What were the post-Civil War transformations in the economic and political life of the North?

  3. Lincoln on April 10, 1865 – 5 days before his death

  4. Lincoln with son Tad on February 9th, 1864

  5. John Wilkes Booth 1838-1865

  6. Ford’s Theater – Lincoln assassinated while watching Our American Cousin

  7. Artist’s portrayal of assassination – “sic semper tyrannis” [Thus always to tyrants]

  8. Booth breaks leg when lands on Theater stage

  9. Reward poster for the conspirators – Booth trapped two weeks later in a VA barn

  10. Executions of Lewis Paine, George Atzerodt, David Herold, and Mary Surratt on July 7, 1865 – 8 were found guilt by a military tribunal, some went to prison

  11. Lincoln’s funeral procession on Pennsylvania Avenue – a special funeral train took 2 weeks to Springfield, Illinois [1968 RFK – “Like a Bridge Over Troubled Water”]

  12. Andrew Johnson 1808-1875 – pardoned 13,000 former Confederates, impeached but found not guilty by one vote

  13. Senator Charles Sumner of MA -- a chief architect of Congressional Reconstruction

  14. Rep. Thaddeus Stevens 1792-1868 – helped secure Civil Rights Act of 1866, helped draft 14th Amendment, Military Reconstruction Act of 1867

  15. Former slave pens in Alexandra, VA

  16. Freedmen at Richmond, VA April 1865

  17. 1872 – African Americans in Congress [l to r] Sen Hiram Revels, Miss; Rep Benjamin Turner, AL; Rep Robert DeLarge, SC; Josiah Walls, FLA; Joseph Rainey, SC; Robert Brown Elliott, SC

  18. Sen. Blanche Kelso Bruce, Mississippi elected in 1874, Oberlin graduate

  19. Sen. Hiram Revels, US Senate from Mississippi in 1870

  20. Primary school for Vicksburg freemen – Freedmen’s Bureau established March 3, 1865

  21. Howard University law school, 1900 – Howard was established in Washington, D.C. in 1867 named after Oliver O. Howard, director of the Freedman’s Bureau

  22. 1876 voting cartoon

  23. Ku Klux Klan members, 1866 Tennessee

  24. Thomas Nast cartoon – Columbia is replacing the seceded states in the Union “Let us have peace”

  25. “Reconstruction of the South” -- Federal generals leading towards peace

  26. Thomas Nast cartoon shows freedmen as victims of Democratic Party

  27. Edwin M. Stanton 1814-1869 - Lincoln’s Sec. of War, fired by Johnson - 1868

  28. Impeachment Committee of the House [l to r] Benjamin Butler, James Wilson, Thaddeus Stevens, George Boutwell, Thomas Williams, John Logan, John Bingham

  29. 1868 Republican Convention in Chicago nominates Grant

  30. Cartoon about carpetbagging

  31. Frederick Douglass 1817-1895

  32. 1873 election of Georgia Democrat John Brown Gordon 1832-1904 to Senate was “Redemption” because he had been officer with Lee

  33. Henry Clay Warmoth, 1842-1932 -- Carpetbagger governor of LA from 1868 - 1872

  34. Thomas Nast cartoon “Solid South”

  35. Horace Greeley 1811-1872 – founded NY Tribune in 1841, ran against Grant in 1872 as a Liberal Republican and Democrat

  36. Rutherford B. Hayes 1822-1893 – Ohio governor who became Republican president in contested election of 1876

  37. Painting of Electoral Commission of 1877 [Florida case]

  38. Samuel J. Tilden 1814-1886 -- denied presidency when several southern Democrats in Congress failed to support him in return for an end to Reconstruction

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