1 / 44

Essential Question

Essential Question. What was the impact of southern Reconstruction?. Reconstruction. State of the South. Questions of Reconstruction. How to rebuild the South after the Civil War? How to readmit the Confederate states to the Union?. Lincoln’s Ten Percent Plan.

nibal
Download Presentation

Essential Question

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript


  1. Essential Question • What was the impact of southern Reconstruction?

  2. Reconstruction

  3. State of the South

  4. Questions of Reconstruction • How to rebuild the South after the Civil War? • How to readmit the Confederate states to the Union?

  5. Lincoln’s Ten Percent Plan • Offer amnesty (pardon) to those willing to take a loyalty oath to the United States • 10 percent of the population must take the oath = readmission as a state

  6. Andrew Johnson Democrat From Tennessee Remained loyal to the Union when TN seceded

  7. Johnson’s Reconstruction Plan Pardon all southerners who take an oath of loyalty to the Union Former Confederate states could set up state governments

  8. Johnson’ Reconstruction Plan Each state needed to revoke secession, ratify the 13th amendment

  9. Black Codes • Southern laws which limited African American rights in the South • Intended to keep African Americans in a condition of slavery

  10. Radical Republicans • Opposed Johnson’s plan • Led by Thaddeus Stevens

  11. Fourteenth Amendment • June 1866 • Granted citizenship to all persons born or naturalized in the United States

  12. Military Reconstruction Act • Passed by Congress • Divided the South in five military districts • Union general was in charge of each district

  13. Military Reconstruction Act • New state constitutions • Right to vote for all males • Must ratify the 14th amendment

  14. Fifteenth Amendment • March 1870 • Right to vote cannot be denied “on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude”

  15. Freedmen’s Bureau • Need for food and shelter for freed slaves • Many settled on plantation lands

  16. Freedmen’s Bureau • Task of feeding and clothing former slaves • Find work for them • Negotiate labor contracts • Began education

  17. Freedmen’s Bureau

  18. Freedmen’s Bureau

  19. Impeachment of Johnson • Johnson vetoed every policy from Congress • Congress overrode his vetoes

  20. Impeachment of Johnson (1868) • House of Representatives voted for his impeachment • Senate put Johnson on trial • Final vote – one vote shy of removing him from office

  21. Sharecropping • New system for agriculture • Tenant farmers paid rent with a share of their crops

  22. Sharecropping • Landlords – landowners who control sharecroppers • Crop liens – crops taken to cover debts

  23. Sharecropping • Sharecroppers became trapped because farmers could not pay their debts • Debt peonage

  24. Republican Rule

  25. Republicans in the South By 1870, all former Confederate states had joined the Union Republicans held political power Included freed slaves, northerners, poor whites

  26. Carpetbaggers Northerners moving into the South Became involved in politics

  27. Scalawags White southerners who worked with Republicans and supported Reconstruction

  28. African Americans First led by the educated Many who lived in the North and had fought for the Union army Became involved in politics

  29. Southern Resistance Against political power in the hands of African Americans Against Republicans leading southern politics

  30. Ku Klux Klan Started in 1866 by Nathaniel Bedford Forrest Secret society Mostly former Confederate soldiers

  31. Goals of the KKK Drive out carpetbaggers Regain control of the South for the Democratic Party Use terror

  32. Tactics of the KKK Broke up Republican meetings Harassed Freedmen’s Bureau workers Burned homes, churches, schools Kept Republicans (white and black) from voting

  33. Letter to the U.S. Senate “We believe you are not familiar with the description of the Ku Klux Klan’s riding nightly over the country, going from county to county, and in the county towns spreading terror wherever they go by robbing, whipping, ravishing, and killing our people without provocation . . . We pray you will take some steps to remedy these evils.”

  34. Ku Klux Klan Act Passed by Congress in 1871 Outlawed activities of the Klan Federal arrests

  35. Compromise of 1877 • 1876 – presidential election • Republican – Rutherford B. Hayes • Democrat – Samuel Tilden

  36. Compromise of 1877 • Election results disputed in three southern states • Results decided by Congress • Rutherford B. Hayes won with the support of southern Democrats

  37. End of Reconstruction • April 1877 • Hayes pulled federal troops out of the South • Southern Democrats took control of all state legislatures

  38. Jim Crow Laws • Southern states create laws to segregate public space

More Related