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Reconstruction
• Prior Knowledge- Do you feel the South should be punished for starting a
war that killed 600K people in order to keep people in slavery, or should the
S. simple be allowed to reenter the Union on the same basis as before the
war except w/out slavery?
• Objectives- students will be able to…
– 1) Identify and define the two separate plans favored by
President Lincoln and the Radical republicans.
– 2) Define the 3 Reconstruction Amendments
– 3) Evaluate if Reconstruction achieved its goals of
integrating Af/Am.s into US society by providing two
examples of success or failure.
Reconstruction (1865-1877) period after the Civil War to
rebuild the south and to readmit states that seceded from the
Union
• Lincoln’s Plan- (10%Plan) ten% of
voters from 1860 had to pledge
allegiance to the Union (then S. state
could reenter the Union and send
representatives to Congress)
• *Lincoln did not want to punish the
south (knew S. would take out anger
on Af/Am)
• Problem- Lincoln was assassinated
by John Wilkes Booth)
• *VP Andrew Johnson takes over and
also does not want to punish South
Do you feel that Confederates (White,
Southerners) got their revenge by
killing Lincoln or did the S. hurt
themselves by killing Lincoln?
Radical Reconstruction- Republicans in Congress want to punish
the South and protect Af/AM
(50% plan- feel Pres. Lincoln and Johnson are too lenient on south,
Rad. Rep. want 50% of S. to pledge allegiance, never passes)
• Fourteenth Amendmentprevents states from denying
rights to citizens (Equal
Protection), defines citizenship
(anyone born in US or
naturalized)
• Fifteenth Amendment- can not
keep a person from voting
based on “race, color, or
previous servitude (slavery)”
• *Gave Af/AM the right to vote
• If Af/Am had the right to vote, then
why were there so many laws that
discriminated Af/Am (Black Codes,
Jim Crow Laws)?
• *Problem- could use other ways
to keep people from voting
(reading test, poll tax,
Grandfather Clause)
Opposition to reconstruction- south upset at losing CW
and did not like having the North influencing the South
• North’s influence- military troops
protect blacks and protect their
right to vote
– Military Reconstruction Act1867 dissolved southern states
in 5 military districts (States
could reenter Union when they
adopt 14th and 15th
Amendments)
• *Military leaves the South in 1877
and Blacks are left to the mercy of
Southern state governments who
begin segregation
• Ku Klux Klan- secret society
created during Reconstruction to
destroy the Republican Party in the
South, prevent blacks from
voting and frighten Af/Am from
participating in Southern politics