Reconstruction • Reconstruction

• Andrew Johnson

• Rebuilding the South after the Civil War.

• Became the President of the U.S. after the assassination of Lincoln.

Rules to “re-join” the Union

• 10 percent of voters must claim loyalty to the Union

• A state could not elect a former Confederate leader.

• Approve the 13th Amendment (banned slavery)

• Laws passed by the South limiting the freedom of black people.

• An agency set up to help people in the South(Former slaves and Whites) after the Civil War. Supplied food, medicine, and an education, and clothes.

• Black Codes

• Freedmen’s Bureau

Congress vs. Johnson• Johnson opposed the

14thAmmendment (Law that defined African Americans as citizens.)

• Congress voted to impeach (to charge someone with wrongdoing) Johnson.– Vetoed laws approved by

congress.

• Johnson remained President by one vote.

Political Cartoons

Civil War Amendments

• 14th Amendment

– Declared that all citizens have equal rights.

• 15th Amendment

– Gave African American Men the right to vote

Name-Calling

• The Southerners called the Northerners:– Carpetbaggers- “They

said they stuffed their bags with whatever they could steal and then return to the North

– Scalawags- Anyone that worked for the new government was a crook or traitor.

Resistance to Change• Ku Klux Klan - was formed in

Tennessee to resist the new changes to the constitution.

• Formed by ex-confederates following the Civil War in 1866.

• Used intimidation to return power to southern whites.

North Carolina

• After the War, Johnson appointed W.W. Holden as Governor.

• He led an unpopular government that was weakened by a lack of public support and the KKK.

• In 1877 North Carolina elected former Governor Zebulon B. Vance.

Poster ActivityChoose one of the following and design a poster!

Black CodesFreedman’s Bureau13th, 14th, & 15th AmendmentsCarpetbaggers and ScalawagsAndrew JohnsonSharecropping and Tenant FarmingJim Crow Laws/ Plessy v. FergusonCivil Rights Act of 1871Response to SegregationGroups supporting segregation

• What was this?

• When did this happen?

• Why did this happen?

• What impact did this have on the U.S. (North and South)?

• Include at least one picture.

Quiz- Reconstruction• Using your notes and textbook to help you, answer the following in

complete sentences!

Page 378#1-10 vocabulary#13-17 complete sentences#20-23 complete sentences#25-26 complete sentences #28 list two things about the picture

Page 379Read “Close to the Land”# 1-3 answers only

Is it fair to have one set of rules for one group of people and another set of rules for another group? Why or why not?