Transcript Abraham Lincoln - Net Start Class

Reconstruction, Part 1
The ruins of a
Train Depot after
the Civil War.
Lincoln Assassinated
• Abraham Lincoln was shot by John Wilkes
Booth on April 14, 1865, while attending a
play at Ford’s Theatre in Washington D.C.
• He died the next day.
The north mourned the loss of
Lincoln and a massive manhunt
began to hunt down his killer.
• John Wilkes Booth was a famous theatre actor and a southern
patriot. After the assassination he was hunted down and shot
dead on a farm in Virginia by the U.S. Army.
Booth’s co-conspirators where
tried for treason and hung.
The War ends in Texas
• On June 19th 1865 Union
General Gordon Granger
arrives in Galveston and
announces the war is
over to Texas and that all
the slaves are to be set
free!
• Juneteenth has been
celebrated in Texas ever
since as the anniversary
of freedom to African
Americans in Texas.
Gordon Granger
• The people of Texas are informed that,
in accordance with a proclamation from
the Executive of the United States, all
slaves are free. This involves an
absolute equality of personal rights and
rights of property between former
masters and slaves, and the connection
heretofore existing between them
becomes that between employer and
hired labor. The freedmen are advised to
remain quietly at their present homes
and work for wages. They are informed
that they will not be allowed to collect at
military posts and that they will not be
supported in idleness either there or
elsewhere.
Freedman
• A freedman or freeman is a person who has been
freed from slavery. All former slaves were now
freedmen.
• Many moved from old plantations and started
“Freedtowns” or black communities.
Freedman
Problems
– Many didn’t have jobs
or homes.
– Some looked for longlost relatives.
– Some traveled to
cities searching for
work.
– Some remained on
the plantation working
for wages or a portion
of the crop.
•The Freedmen’s Bureau was created by
Congress to help former slaves by supplying
food, shelter, medicine, and in many cases, jobs.
•The freedmen’s bureau faced many challenges
from southerners who would attempt to intimidate
and in some cases kill freedmen’s bureau
workers.
•The Freedmen’s
bureau's major success
was in the creation of
schools for the former
slaves and their children.
Freedman’s Teacher School
Presidential Reconstruction
Andrew Johnson, as the President after
Lincoln, set up four requirements for
southern states to return to the Union.
1. States had to accept the 13th
amendment that ended slavery.
2. States had to declare that their
secession had been illegal.
3. States had to cancel all war debts.
4. To receive the right to vote, all
adult white males had to declare
loyalty to the United States.
The 17th President of
the United States,
Andrew Johnson
•Andrew Johnson named Andrew Hamilton, a
Unionist, as governor of Texas. He called for
a new constitutional convention.
•James W. Throckmorton
was elected as president of
the convention. He had
been a Unionist, but fought
in the Confederate army for
Texas. Therefore he was
thought to be a good
choice.
James W. Throckmorton
The Constitution of 1866
•The Constitution of 1866 was the same as
the Constitution of 1845, except that slavery
was ended.
•Texas refused to adopt the 13th
amendment. President Johnson agreed to
accept Texas back into the U.S. anyway.
•The Southern governments also passed
“Black Codes”.
•These laws attempted to force former
slaves back to labor on plantations.
“Black Codes”
• African Americans
were second class
citizens.
• They could not
marry whites.
• They could not
hold public office,
vote, or serve on a
jury.