RECONSTRUCTION

RECONSTRUCTION PLANS

• LINCOLN’S• 10% PLAN

• MUST ABOLISH SLAVERY

• AMNESTY OFFER

• CONGRESS• MAJORITY • NO RIGHT TO

VOTE OR ELECTED OFFICE TO ANY CONFEDERATE VETERAN

FREEDMEN’S BUREAU

• SET UP - HELP FORMER SLAVES

• FOOD, CLOTHING AND JOBS

• SCHOOLS (EVEN FOR ADULTS)

• MEDICAL HELP

• POOR WHITES COULD BE HELPED AS WELL IN F.B.

LINCOLN IS ASSASSINATED

• April 14, 1865

• Ford’s theatre

• Shot by Confederate sympathizer John Wilkes Booth

• V.P. Andrew Johnson becomes President

Lincoln Assassination

VIOLENCE IN MEMPHIS

CIVIL WAR AMENDMENTS

• 13TH – FREE THE SLAVES

• 14TH - CITIZENSHIP; EQUAL PROTECTION UNDER THE LAW

• 15TH – AFRICAN AMERICAN MALES GET THE RIGHT TO VOTE

REACTION TO AMENDMENT 13

BLACK CODES• LAWS RESTRICTING THE RIGHTS

OF AFRICAN AMERICANS• AFRICAN AMERICANS NOT

ALLOWED TO VOTE, SERVE ON JURIES, OWN GUNS, HOLD CERTAIN JOBS, STAY OUT LATE

REACTION-AMENDMENT14

JIM CROW LAWS

LAWS SEPARATING WHITES FROM AFRICAN AMERICANS IN PUBLIC PLACES

REACTION-AMENDMENT 15

• POLL TAX – MUST PAY TO VOTE

• LITERACY TEST – TEST PROVING THAT YOU COULD READ AND WRITE IN ORDER TO VOTE

• GRANDFATHER CLAUSE – EXCUSES YOU FROM LITERACY TEST IF YOUR GRANFATHER VOTED BEFORE 1867

POLL TAX DELINQUENT LIST

SHARECROPPING

• MANY AFRICAN AMERICANS HAD TO RESORT TO THIS AFTER THE CIVIL WAR.

• THEY WOULD FARM SOMEONE ELSE’S PROPERTY TO KEEP A “SHARE”

• NOT MUCH BETTER THAN SLAVERY