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Reconstruction

Reconstruction. Lincoln’s Purpose for Reconstruction. To restore and rebuild the south To reunite the country To pardon those who seceded from the Union. After Lincoln’s Death. The south didn’t see the economic growth that other regions saw due to the tremendous loses they incurred in the W

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Reconstruction

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  1. Reconstruction

  2. Lincoln’s Purpose for Reconstruction • To restore and rebuild the south • To reunite the country • To pardon those who seceded from the Union

  3. After Lincoln’s Death • The south didn’t see the economic growth that other regions saw due to the tremendous loses they incurred in the W • Manufacturing grew more slowly • Congress takes control and puts the south under military rule thus enforcing the idea that all men could vote • Congress didn’t want former confederate leaders elected and in charge of southern states

  4. 3 branches of government • Legislative Branch : Congress (House of Representatives and Senate) make the laws • Executive Branch: President makes sure the laws are obeyed • Judicial Branch: Supreme Court interprets the laws and settles legal arguments

  5. How to change the constitution and add amendments • Amendments are proposed changes to the Constitution • Proposed by 2/3rd of the House of Representatives and Senate And then • 3/4th of the states must ratify(accept)

  6. How are citizen’s rights protected by the 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments

  7. Why did freedmen decide to sharecrop? • Few had the money to buy land • Only thing they knew was farming • Sharecroppers stayed poor because it was hard to get out of debt • Sharecropping: a system o farming in which the tenant farmer pays his rent with a share of his crops

  8. How did Reconstruction change the lives of African-Americans in the South? • Slaves were freed • Public school systems were established in the south • Freedmen’s Bureau was established • Failure of reconstruction was the inability to guarantee the rights of the freed slaves

  9. How did the Jim Crow laws and social customs of the South affect the lives of African Americans? • Some southerners didn’t want the freed slaves to be equal so Jim Crow laws were imposed • These laws created segregation and prevented equality • Black Codes: were passed by southern states to limit the rights of former enslaved people to travel, vote, and work in certain jobs.

  10. End of Reconstruction • Herbert Hayes is president and orders the government soldiers to leave the south

  11. After Lincoln

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