Aim: How will we rebuild the South’s ruined economy and promise the rights of freed slaves?Homework: Quiz on Reconstruction next class!

The years following the Civil War (1865-1877) are known as the RECONSTRUCTION PERIOD.

WARTIME RECONSTRUCTION

Lincoln’s Ten Percent Plan 1. If states abolish slavery and provide an

education for African Americans they will gain representation in congress.

2. If 10% of whites take an oath to guarantee abolition they will JOIN THE UNION!

3. Compensation guaranteed for lost property.

He NEVER discussed with Congress about this!

Radical Reconstructionist Lead by Thaddeus Stevens and Charles Sumner- Said the Confederates committed war crimes

Wade-Davis Bill 1864 Required 50% of voters to take an

“ironclad” oath that they never voluntarily supported the Confederacy.

13th Amendment 1865, “Neither

slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as punishment for a crime where of the party shall have been duly convicted shall exist with in the United States.”

1865, President Lincoln was assassinated by John Wilkes Boothe.

Andrew Johnson becomes Presiden.t

Freedman’s Bureau 1866 Passed by

congress to help freed slaves

Helped find them jobs, have food, clothing, shelter, and start and education.

Freedman’s Bureau seen through the South’s eyes.

Freedman Bureau school

Presidential Reconstructi

on

Johnson’s Reconstruction Plan 1. pardon southerners who took the

oath

2. Recognized new state governments

3. Appointed temporary governors to remaining 7 states

What happens next… Congress rejects

plan and refuses to seat newly elected Southern congressman.

South aims to restore old ways: Many limited vote

to white men Southern states

enforce the BLACK CODES

Black Codes Guarantee stable

labor supply now that blacks were emancipated

Restore old race relations

Make African Americans Sharecroppers.

Sharecropper: tenant housing for work

• Congress passes bill to allow freedman’s bureau to continue

Johnson VETOS the BillCongress sought to overturn the Black Codes by Passing the Civil Rights Act 1866

Johnson used his veto power to block the law.

Radical Reconstruction

14th Amendment Equality for all

citizens Southern states

would lose seats in the house if they did not allow Blacks to vote

IMPEACHMENT due to: Power struggle between Congress and the President

15th Amendment 1868- Ulysses S.

Grant is president: forbidding states from denying suffrage on the grounds of race, color, or previous servitude.

14th

And 15th AmendmentsStill contain LOOPHOLES.