RECONSTRUCTION

THE UNFINISHED REVOLUTION

 WARM UP

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The bloodiest war in US History...
1863 Emancipation Proclamation
1864 - Lincoln re-elected
 January 31, 1865
13TH AMENDMENT

• Section 1
• Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party
shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their
jurisdiction.

• Section 2
• Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.
• April 9, 1865 - General Robert E. Lee, surrenders.
WAR ENDS
• April 9, 1865 - General Robert E. Lee, surrenders.
WAR ENDS

• April 14, 1865 - Abraham Lincoln is assassinated

What challenges did the nation face?
POLITICS at the end of the Civil War
Executive vs Legislative

CONGRESS

President Johnson
(party?)
Executive vs Legislative

CONGRESS

Republicans

President Johnson
Democrat

Conservatives
Executive vs Legislative

CONGRESS

Republicans

President Johnson
Democrat
Democrats (from?)
Conservatives
Executive vs Legislative

CONGRESS

Republicans

President Johnson
Democrat Northern
Democrats
Conservatives
14th amendment
■ All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and
subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United
States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall
make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or
immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State
deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due
process of law; nor to deny to any person within its jurisdiction
the equal protection of the laws.
 Questionnaire

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15th amendment
■ Passed by Congress February 26, 1869. Ratified February
3, 1870.
■ 1. The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not
be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State
on account of race, color, or previous condition of
servitude.
CHRONOLOGY
RECONSTRUCTION PLANS COMPARED
Carpetbaggers & Scalawags
Ulysses S. Grant becomes
President
■ Former Union General, Ulysses S.
Grant, was elected President of the
United States.
■ He was a good general, but not a good
politician.
■ His administration was plagued with
corruption.
 Democrats Come to Power
■ With the efforts of the KKK, the Democrats came to
power again in the South.
■ This time period is known as “redemption”.
■ Democrats controlled the state governments in the
South .
■ They also gained power in Congress.
 Compromise of 1877
■ The Compromise of 1877 ended Reconstruction.
■ In the election of 1876, Republican Rutherford B. Hayes was elected
President by one electoral vote.
■ Instead of the Democrats making a big issue out of the election results,
they made a deal with the Republicans.
■ The Democrats would allow Hayes to stay President, if the Republicans
would pull the military out of the South.
SUPREME COURT CASE
¨ Plessy vs Ferguson 1896

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 BLACKS AFTER RECONSTRUCTION

POLITICAL SPHERE ❏ DISENFRANCHISEMENT - LITERACY TESTS

- POLL TAX
- GRANDFATHER CLAUSE

ECONOMIC SPHERE ❏ ECONOMIC DEPENDENCE

❏ SHARECROPPING SYSTEM

SOCIAL SPHERE ❏ SEGREGATION (JIM CROW LAWS )

❏ ANTI-MISCEGENATION LAWS
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