Presidential Versus Congressional Reconstruction Reconstruction The time period following the Civil War which lasted from 1865 to 1877 The time period during which the US began to rebuild after the Civil War ID: 382563
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Reconstruction
Presidential Versus Congressional ReconstructionSlide2
Reconstruction
The time period following the Civil War, which lasted from 1865 to 1877.
The time period during which the U.S. began to rebuild after the Civil War.
Also, the process the federal government used to readmit the defeated Confederate states to the Union.Slide3
Differing views of Reconstruction
Presidential Reconstruction
More lenient
The Ten Percent Plan
Readmitted states back into the Union very easily.
Issued many pardons
Congressional Reconstruction
More radical (radical reconstruction)
Congress drafted the Fourteenth Amendment.
Made all people born in the U.S., citizens
Divided former Confederate states into military districts.
Congress ratified the Fifteenth Amendment.
Protected voting rights.Slide4
Opposition to Reconstruction
Ku Klux Klan
A vigilante group
They whipped, tortured and murdered former slaves.
Its goals were to
Destroy the Republican PartyThrow out reconstruction governments
Prevent African Americans from exercising their political rights.Slide5
The Birth of A Nation
A silent film which portrays the KKK as rescuing the South from the “atrocities” of reconstruction.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9t-7SVbLjBw&feature=relatedSlide6
The Civil War Amendments
13
th
Amendment, Abolished Slavery
14
th Amendment, Citizenship15th Amendment, Voting