PPT-Reconstruction and Black Disfranchisement

POSC 104S Reconstruction 1860s Civil War erupts and concludes 13 th 14 th 15 th Amendments abolish slavery invoke equal protection mandate universal suffrage Lincoln Assassinated and Andrew Johnson becomes president. One of the first things the new Southern governments did was pass . black codes. Varied in severity from state to state. All tried to regulate affairs of freed blacks and assure a stable and subservient labor force. Angela Brown. Black Codes. Defeat in the war had not changed the fact that white people still dominated southern society.. One by one, southern states met Johnson’s Reconstruction demands and were restored to the Union.. Felony disfranchisement is a policy that bars citizens from the ballot box upon conviction of a felony. In the laws vary from state to state, but 48 states bar incarcerated individuals from casting a Reconstruction. The period of Reconstruction was extremely controversial for both the North and South. Many historians call the period “The Second Civil War,” as the regions remained bitter as their wounds from the Civil War healed. . 1865-1877. Chapter 22 Vocabulary. Freedmen’s Bureau. Black Codes. 13. th. Amendment. 14. th. Amendment. 15. th. Amendment. Sharecropping. Debt Peonage. Scalawags. Carpetbaggers. Ku Klux Klan. The Problems of Peace. Key Questions. 1. How do we. bring the South. back into the . Union?. 2. How do we . rebuild the . South after its. destruction . during the war?. 3. How do we. integrate and. protect newly-. emancipated. The Civil War. The War of Northern Aggression. The War for Southern Independence. The War Between the States. The War of Rebellion. The Confederate States of America, 1861. State’s Rights. Advantages: . The Fourteenth Amendment. Prohibits states from abridging “privileges” and “immunities” of citizens. Guarantees “equal protection under the law”. Gave congress the power to reduce congressional representation to any state that denied any group of men to vote. 1865-1877. Bargain of 1877. Black Codes. Carpetbaggers. Civil Rights Act of 1875.  . Civil . Rights Bill of 1866. Crop lien. Enforcement Acts. Fifteenth . Amendment. Fourteenth Amendment. Redeemers. Chapters 22 and 23. Chapter 22. The Ordeal of Reconstruction. Introduction. After the war, many questions remained;. How would the South be rebuilt after all the war damage?. How would liberated blacks fare as free men and women?. 13. th. Amendment. grandfather clause. 14th Amendment. Jim Crow. 15. th. Amendment. Ku Klux Clan. 16. th. Amendment. literacy test. Abraham Lincoln. martial law. Andrew Johnson. poll tax. assassination. I. The Problems of Peace. Jefferson Davis:. Temporarily clapped into irons during early days of 2-year imprisonment. He & fellow “conspirators” finally released. All rebels leaders pardoned by President Andrew Johnson in 1868. Key Questions. How to rebuild the South after its destruction during the War?. What would be the condition of African Americans in the South?. How would the South be reintegrated into the Union?. Who would control the process: Southern states, president, or Congress?. Angela Brown. Salempress.com. 1. Reconstruction ends. In March 1870 the last southern states were restored to the Union.. Yet the United States was still far from united. . From 1868 through 1871, groups of white southerners launched a violent backlash against Radical Reconstruction..