Transcript Civil War And Reconstruction

Civil War
And Reconstruction
Breaking Up a Nation and Trying
to Mend It Back Together
Civil War – Southern States Leave
• Lincoln Gets Elected
–Seven southern states seceded from the
Union in protest against the election
winner
–He had not won any votes from the
southern states
Civil War
• North (Union-blue) fights the South
(Confederacy-gray)
• Lincoln re-elected
• North wins! April 9th or May 10th, 1865
(depends on who you ask)
• On April 14, 1865, President Lincoln was
assassinated at Ford’s Theater in Washington
by John Wilkes Booth.
• South happy at first…until they realize the new
President, Johnson, wants to punish them
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• With malice toward none, with charity for
all, with firmness in the right as God gives
us to see the right, let us strive on to finish
the work we are in, to bind up the nation's
wounds, to care for him who shall have
borne the battle and for his widow and his
orphan, to do all which may achieve and
cherish a just and lasting peace among
ourselves and with all nations.
Reconstruction
• The Good
– Free public education for African-Americans and
whites in the South
– Most of the states of the former Confederacy, in
order to regain admission to the Union, were
required to ratify the Fourteenth Amendment
– The innovation had the greatest impact on
westward migration immediately after the Civil War
transcontinental railroad
– At the end of the Civil War, industry in the United
States was booming as a result of war profits and
business leadership
Reconstruction Con’t
• The Bad
– As a result of the Civil War and Reconstruction, the
South would finish the 19th century and enter the
20th century as economically depressed
– The desire to establish military posts contributed to
the forced removal of Native Americans from the
Great Plains from 1867 to 1890
Reconstruction Con’t
• The Ugly
– Southern state governments tried to weaken
President Johnson’s Reconstruction plan by
passing black codes
– Southern states were allowed to make their own
decisions about segregation legislation therefore
the 14th amendment was not successful
implemented
– Ku Klux Klan affect the South because it helped the
reverse Reconstruction in the South