War and Reconstruction I.Legal Disorder A.Secession B.Protest C.Labor D.The Laws of War...

War and ReconstructionI. Legal Disorder

A. SecessionB. ProtestC. LaborD. The Laws of War

II. ReconstructionA. Restoring Criminal ProcedureB. Ending SlaveryC. Civil RightsD. Political Rights

III. Stemming DisunionA. Ku Klux KlanB. Aftermath

Secession

• Treasonor

• Termination of contract?

Fort Sumter

4/4/1861

Protest

• NYC Draft Riots, 1863

• 1,000-10,000 fatalities

Labor

• Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation– September 23,

1862

Fugitive slaves crossing the Rappahannock, VA, 1862

Laws of War

• Suspension of Habeas Corpus

• Bushwackers

• Gen. Sherman

• Andersonville

• Booth

Sherman’s March, 1864

Procedure

• Copperheads

• Lambdin Milligan

• Ex Parte Milligan

Ending Slavery?

• Thirteenth Amendment, 1865

• Black Codes, 1865

President Andrew Johnson

Civil Rights

• Civil Rights Act, 1866

• Fourteenth Amendment, 1868

Political Rights

• Fifteenth Amendment, 1870

Federal Authority

• Ku Klux Klan– Founded TN,

1865

• Klan Act, 1871