A nation split apart must bind itself together.

What did Lincoln Want?

Ten Percent Plan (1863)

Radical Republicans

Thaddeus Stevens

Charles Sumner

Wade-Davis Bill (1864)

Congress in charge of Recon.

Pocket veto

Who the heck is Andrew

Johnson?

Lincoln VP

Tennessee; Unionist

Democrat

Similar to Lincoln’s plan

Impeachment of Johnson

Tenure of Office Act

Johnson fires Stanton

Impeached

Senate does not convict

Election of Grant -- 1868

“waiving the bloody shirt”

Republican presidents until 1884

African-Americans vote Republican

Civil War Amendments

13th:

14th:

15th:

What Needs to Be

Reconstructed?

The Post-War South:

Destroyed…

Physically:

Economically:

Psychologically:

Scalawags & Carpetbaggers

Scalawags:

Carpetbaggers:

What challenges do former slaves

face?

What’s going to happen to freed

slaves?

Education

80% of freed Af-Am over age of 20 illiterate by 1870

Hampton Institution, Virginia

Politics

Freeborn and former slaves hold local, state, and federal

office

SC: black majority in state legislature

AF-Am ministers emerge as political leaders

Students in a Math class at

Hampton University -- 1899

Hiram Revels First Af-American Senator

Mississippi (1870-1871)

“Forty Acres & A Mule”

Sherman’s Field Order 15:

Stevens urges confiscation

& redistribution

Congress fails to pass

effective land-reform

Slavery Without the Slaves

Sharecropping:

Anti-Black Violence: The KKK

Ku Klux Klan http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YLN7PBIdRsM (10:13-18:15)

-- Terrorist organization; white supremacy

Goals:

Methods:

Why does the North lose

interest?

Grant’s Scandals

Credit Mobilier

Company skimming profits from

gov’t contracts

Whiskey Ring

IRS takes bribes from distillers

who avoid paying taxes

Economic Problems

Panic of 1873

Over-speculation -- “boom and bust”

5 year depression

Gold Question

Should the gov’t print “easy money”?

His Fraudulency

Hayes (R-OH) loses popular vote

to Tilden (D-NY)

Tilden does not win Electoral

College

Hayes is the President. What?

Bargain of 1877

Federal troops out of South

RR from Texas to the West

Southerner in the Cabinet

Thus endeth Reconstruction…

How’d We

Do?