Transcript reconstruction and its effects

RECONSTRUCTION AND ITS EFFECTS
CHAPTER 12
MRS. RUIZ
Objectives:
1. Define Reconstruction
2. Summarize Lincoln’s 10% Plan and compare it
with Johnson’s Plan.
3. Analyze the challenges faced by African
Americans
4. Summarize causes for the holt of
reconstruction.
A. Reconstruction
1. Period when we rebuild after the Civil War
2. From 1865-1877
3. Leaders had different ideas of how it should
be.
B. Lincoln’s 10% Plan
1. Lincoln wanted a fast and easy return for the
south
2. Gov. Pardon all confederates
3. Except high ranking officials and war
criminals
4. 10% had to pledge allegiance to the USA
5. Then they would be allow to return to the
union.
C. Critics
1. Radical Republicans (Thaddeus Stevens) did
not agree
2. Plan was to soft on former slave holders
3. Plan should give African Americans full
citizenship and the Right to vote
D. Johnson’s Plan
1. Mainly favored high ranking white
southerners.
2. The plan was also soft just like Lincoln
3. He added that states also had to ratify the
13th amendment.
4. Believed that whites should control the south
E. Black Codes
1. Restricted lives of African Americans
2. Implemented immediately after the Civil War
3. Free Blacks were not allowed to:
Carry weapons, serve on jury, testify against
whites, marry whites, travel without papers
F. 13th Constitutional Amendment
1. 13th Amendment. Neither slavery nor
involuntary servitude, except as a
punishment for crime whereof the party shall
have been duly convicted, shall exist within
the United States, or any place subject to
their jurisdiction.
G. 14th Constitutional Amendment
• 1. . All persons born or naturalized in the United
States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are
citizens of the United States and of the State wherein
they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law
which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of
citizens of the United States; nor shall any State
deprive any person of life, liberty, or property,
without due process of law; nor deny to any person
within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the
laws.
H. 15th Constitutional Amendment
1. The right of citizens of the United States to
vote shall not be denied or abridge by the
United States or by any State on account of
race, color, or previous condition or
servitude.
I. Scalawags/Carpetbaggers
1. Scalawags: used African American vote to
gain office and make $
2. Carpetbaggers: wanted to take advantage to
the situation in the south to make $
3. In some cases true but not always
J. Africans and Challenges
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Reunification of Families
Education
Churches
Politics
Segregation
K. Sharecropping
1. Land was divided and given to a worker
2. At harvest half of the crop was given to the
landowner
3. This was a cycle that never ended.
4. It was a new form of slavery
See page 391
L. Tenant Farmers
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Similar to sharecropping
Instead, the worker rented the land with $
And kept the profit from the crop
This system rarely produced a profit
M. Ku Klux Klan
1. Social club for confederates in 1866
2. Objective: restore white supremacy
3. by stopping African Americans from
exercising their political rights
N. Economic Panic of 1837
1. Many borrowed to create businesses in the
South.
2. But could not pay back their loans.
3. This lead to bank closures and the collapse of
the stock market.
4. This lead to a five year economic depression.
Activity
1. Read Chapter 12-3
2. Take notes
3. Choose three reasons that lead
reconstruction to an end.
4. Write 3-5 paragraphs explaining # 3
5. Make sure to write an introduction, body,
and a conclusion
6. Will be counted as a test grade.