RECONSTRUCITON

Essential Question

What were some of the plans of government to Reconstruct the U.S. after war and were they effective?

Lincoln’s 2ND INNAGURAL ADDRESS

With malice toward none; with charity for all; with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in; to bind up the nation's wounds; to care for him who shall have borne the battle, and for his widow, and his orphan--to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace, among ourselves, and with all nations.

RECONSTRUCTION – the process the U.S. used to readmit the Confederate States to the Union

Lasted from 1865 to 1877

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FREEDMAN’S BUREAU – assisted former slaves by setting up schools, hospitals and distributing food and clothing in the South.

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LINCOLN’S 10% PLAN• He thought The South had

suffered enough.• His plan was designed to make

an easy, peaceful reentry of the former Confederate states back into the Union.

• Allow states to re-enter the Union with only 10% of voters in each state declared their loyalty to the Union.

• Died before he could carry it out.

ANDREW JOHNSON becomes president when Lincoln is assassinated.

He was Lincoln’s vice PresidentHe was a white supremacist

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Johnson planned to carry on Lincoln’s plans for reconstruction

He believed IT WAS the President’S JOB TO play a major role in reconstructing the country.

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•RADICIAL REPUBLICANS (CONGRESS) – northerners that pushed for full and equal citizenship of African Americans.

•They thought It was their job To rebuild the South.

CIVIL RIGHTS ACT OF 1866 stated that:

1)All persons born in the U.S. were citizens

2)All citizens entitled to equal rights regardless of race .Johnson VETOED it….

14th AMENDMENT – states that all citizens had equal protection under the law

Led to the Reconstruction Act of 1867

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Radical Republican PlanCongress’ Plan

• Supported the Freedman’s Bureau

• Supported the Civil Rights Act of 1866 outlawing Black Codes

• States had to pass the 14th Amendment to rejoin the Union

• Divide the South into 5 military Districts.

• Support for equal rights for African Americans.

Radical Republicans said To re-enter the Union states must:

1)Give the right to vote to all men 15th Amendment

2)Ratify the 14th Amendment

Southern reaction to Reconstruction.

• What were ways the South reacted to the Radical Reconstruction plan?

1. Some in the south resist the new government and refuse to ratify the 13th Amendment

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•2. Enacted BLACK CODES/Jim Crow Laws – laws that limited the freedom of former slaves

•Blacks couldn’t carry guns or meet in large groups

•3 KKK – KU KLUX KLAN – a secret group with goals to restore Democratic control and keep former slaves powerless

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The KKK attacked African Americans, burned homes and killed people

Klansman scared people away from voting, Democrats increasing their power

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President Johnson fights many of the reforms the Congress passed – he thought they were too strict

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IMPEACHED – to be formally accused of improper conduct while in office

He was acquitted – found not guilty – by one vote

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