Political Reconciliation Economic Restoration Reforming Society What conflicts challenged the United States in our pursuit of these goals Lees Reconstruction Legacy Robert E Lee ID: 637887
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The Impossible Task: Reconstruction
Political ReconciliationEconomic RestorationReforming Society
What conflicts challenged the United States in our pursuit of these goals?Slide2
Lincoln’s Reconstruction Legacy Abraham Lincoln
“With malice toward none, with charity for all…bind up the nation’s wounds”Issued Reconstruction plan calling for reconciliationBelieved preservation of the Union
was more important than punishing the SouthSlide3
Lee’s Reconstruction LegacyRobert E. Lee
“All should unite in honest efforts to obliterate the effects of the war and to restore the blessing of peace.”Urged Southerners to reunite with Northerners
Becomes president of Washington & Lee UniversitySlide4
Freedmen’s Bureau Established 1865Slide5
Freedmen’s Bureau SchoolSlide6
Abraham LincolnAndrew Johnson
10% PlanEach state had to redraft state constitutionReenter Union after 10% pledged future to USAPardon for all Confederates except high-ranking officialsAdopts 10% PlanAND pardons thousands of high-ranking officials
Presidential Reconstruction
Presidents/Congress agreed states needed to abolish slaverySlide7
Lincoln AssassinatedSlide8
13th AmendmentSlide9
Douglass’ Reconstruction LegacyFrederick Douglass
“In a nation like ours, as before the law, there should be no rich, no poor, no high, no low, no white, no black, but common country, common citizenship, equal rights and a common destiny.”Fought for adoption of constitutional amendments that guaranteed
voting rightsWas a powerful voice for human rights and civil liberties for allSlide10
Black
Codes 1865-1866
Restrict Rights
Juvenile Convicts At Work In The Fields
Juvenile convicts at work in the fields in s Southern chain gang. Southern jails made money leasing convicts for forced labor in the Jim Crow South. Circa. 1903Slide11
Ku Klux Klan
A secret organization to intimidate African Americans and restore white rule Slide12
Civil Rights Act 1866States African Americans are citizens; guarantees equal rightsSlide13
Andrew Johnson
His leniency allowed states quick readmissionMass amnesty allowed for southern democrats to regain controlHe opposed CRA 1866He opposed 14th AmendmentBlamed mass murders and riots on “radical” ideasSlide14
Thaddeus Stevens Andrew Johnson
What did Radical Republicans stand for?What were three policies Radicals proposed for Reconstruction?Why might Democrats have opposed these plans?Why did AJ oppose spending money on helping freedmen?What were two reasons why AJ opposed giving African Americans the right to vote?
Why was the Radical Republican plan for Reconstruction considered “radical?”
Why do you think the radical plan was considered “radical?”Slide15
Radical
Reconstruction
1867
“Restart”
Reconstruction in the 10 Southern states that refused to ratify the 14
th
Amendment.
Divide the 10 “unreconstructed states” into 5 military
districts
.
Require elections allowing African American men to vote
Northern Troops Supervised the South
Southern military leaders could not hold public officeSlide16
Johnson’s
Impeachment
Tried by the Senate
Johnson
acquitted
35 to 19 (one short of required 2/3s vote).Slide17
14th Amendment
The
14th Amendment grants citizenship to all persons born in the United States and guarantees them equal protection under the law.Slide18
The Balance of Power in Congress
State
White Citizens
Freedmen
SC
291,000
411,000
MS
353,000
436,000
LA
357,000
350,000
GA
591,000
465,000
AL
596,000
437,000
VA
719,000
533,000
NC
631,000
331,000Slide19
Redeemer Governments 1870Slide20
15th Amendment
Ensures
all citizens the right to vote regardless of race, color, or previous condition of servitude.Slide21
Sharecropping in GA, 1888
"Farm Labor Family." The African-American Experience, Primary Source Media, 1999. American Journey. U.S. History in Context, link.galegroup.com/apps/doc/EJ2210006942/UHIC?u=va_s_128_0080&xid=cdde5d9a. Accessed 23 Sept. 2017.Slide22
How did African Americans experience social, political and economic growth in the era of reconstruction?Gains for African Americans