Transcript Reconstruction

Knights Charge 1/20
• Get your number from Mr. T as you walk in and find your
desk
• Grab a sheet off the wooden chair that says “Setting the
Stage” and complete it
Knight Charge 1/21
• Take out a sheet of paper and answer the following
questions…
1.
What was the period after the Civil War trying to rebuild the
South known as?
2.
What were two plans to try to readmit Southern states back
into the Union?
3.
What three Amendments were passed? What did they each
do?
4.
What organization was founded to help newly freed slaves?
5.
What event marked the end of Reconstruction?
RECONSTRUCTION
AND THE “NEW SOUTH”
(1865-1877)
Focusing Points…
• What were some strategies used by the
Government to “Reconstruct” the South
after the Civil War
• How did the 13th, 14th, and 15th
Amendments impact the American people?
• What is the “New South”?
Lincoln’s Ten Percent Plan
• Lincoln wanted to be
forgiving
• Lincoln’s Ten Percent
Plan- only ten percent of
each state had to take
oath to the Union to be
forgiven
Radical Republicans oppose Lincoln
Many Radical
Republicans
wanted to punish the
South
Felt that the
Confederacy
committed a crime
by leaving the
union
Wade- Davis Bill
Wade-Davis Billrequired that a
majority of a state
must pledge
allegiance to the
union before being
brought back into
union
Amendments during Reconstruction
13th AmendmentEnded the practice of slavery
14th AmendmentGranted freed people citizenship
15th AmendmentProtected a citizen’s right to vote regardless of
race
Emancipated Slaves and the Freedmans’
Bureau
To help newly freed
slaves, the
Freedman’s Bureau
helped them find
shelter, food, and
education
Jim Crow South Begins…
• South still aimed to limit
the rights of African
Americans
• Black Codes- laws
designed to limit African
Americans rights
• Jim Crow Laws-
established segregation
in the South
Ku Klux Klan
Rebuilding Southern Economy
• Sharecropping- Poor farmers would borrow land from
landowners and “share” the crops
• Keeps poor people and freed blacks in debt
• Landowning rich maintained control
Rebuilding Southern Politics
Scalawags- People from the
South who supported the
Union
Carpetbaggers- People from
the North who traveled South
to take advantage of the
rebuilding process
The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln
• Due to tensions between the North and South after the
war...
• John Wilkes Booth assassinates Abraham Lincoln at
Ford Theater on April 15, 1865
• Vice President Andrew Johnson becomes the 17th
President of the United States
• Greatly angers Radical Republicans in Congress
End of Reconstruction
• In the Election of 1876,
Rutherford B. Hayes and
Samuel Tilden tie in the
electoral college.
Compromise of 1877Rutherford B. Hayes is
made president and ends
Reconstruction
The “New South” Begins
• During and after
Reconstruction, the South
continues to rebuild
• The term “New South”
refers to the South’s
struggle to become an
industrial region like the
North
• The South never truly
escapes its agricultural
identity and remains poor
Once your are finished…
• Turn in your sheet into your class’s box
• Take a sheet that’s called “Unit 1 overview”
• Take a textbook out of the box located at the front of the
room