PPT-Reconstruction Rebuilding the South

Reconstruction Reconstruction The plan to restore the Confederate states back to the Union after the Civil War Problems in the South After the Civil War Freedmen Newly freed slaves Freedmens Bureau Designed to help former slaves with food shelter education and healthcare. 1. Under what restrictions would the Southern states be readmitted to the Union?. 2. What would be the political/ social status of blacks (freemen)?. 3. What should be done with rebels? Soldiers who fought? Leaders of the Rebellion?. Today’s Essential Question: How did conflicts between the president and Congress affect Reconstruction efforts. ?. Vocabulary . Reconstruction – process the federal government used to readmit the Confederate states to the Union. Poorlincoln. . Political Parties of the North . Northern Democrats Split following the death of Stephen Douglas. War Democrats and Peace Democrats . War= Support Lincoln . Peace= want war to end- extremist were the Copperheads . 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. Reconstruction Issues. Closure: when is the Civil War period over?. Fate of defeated Confederates. Fate of former slaves. How to integrate Confederate states back into the U.S.. Role of federal gov’t vs. state gov’t. ** . Southern state governments: aspirations, achievements, failures. *** . Role of African Americans in politics, education, and the economy. **** . Compromise of 1877. ***** . Impact of Reconstruction. Standard 5-1 The . student will demonstrate an understanding of Reconstruction and its impact on . the . United States.. 5-1.1 Summarize the . aims. and course of Reconstruction, including the effects of Abraham Lincoln’s . Today’s Essential Question: How did conflicts between the president and Congress affect Reconstruction efforts. ?. Vocabulary . Reconstruction – process the federal government used to readmit the Confederate states to the Union. Reconstruction. in the South. 1867-1877. Carpetbag. “Carpetbaggers”. Nickname applied by Southern whites to people who migrated South after the Civil War. The “Carpetbagger”. Stereotype. “Carpetbaggers”. 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. Section 1. 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-. 1865-1877. ASSASSINATION OF PRESIDENT ABRAHAM LINCOLN. April 14, 1865. Ford’s Theater in Washington D.C.. Shot in the back of the head by a pro-Southern actor named John Wilkes Booth. Lincoln’s VP Andrew Johnson becomes the President (he was a Democrat from . 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.. Why was the process of reconstructing the South after the Civil War so difficult?. Southern agriculture and infrastructure lay in ruins. Major cities such as Richmond and Atlanta lay in ruins. Much of southern private property had been confiscated or looted by federal forces. Crooks disguised as Treasury agents intimidated people.