Chapter 17: Assassination and Reconstruction
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Transcript of Chapter 17: Assassination and Reconstruction
Chapter 17: Chapter 17: Assassination and Assassination and
ReconstructionReconstruction
Chapter Focus Questions Chapter Focus Questions
What were the competing political plans for What were the competing political plans for reconstructing the defeated Confederacy?reconstructing the defeated Confederacy?
How difficult was the transition from How difficult was the transition from slavery to freedom for African Americans?slavery to freedom for African Americans?
What was the political and social legacy of What was the political and social legacy of Reconstruction in the southern states?Reconstruction in the southern states?
What were the post-Civil War What were the post-Civil War transformations in the economic and transformations in the economic and political life of the North?political life of the North?
Lincoln on April 10, 1865 – 5 days before his death
Lincoln with son Tad on February 9th, 1864
John Wilkes Booth 1838-1865
Ford’s Theater – Lincoln assassinated while watching Our American Cousin
Artist’s portrayal of assassination – “sic semper tyrannis” [Thus always to
tyrants]
Booth breaks leg when lands on Theater stage
Reward poster for the conspirators – Booth trapped two weeks later in a VA barn
Executions of Lewis Paine, George Atzerodt, David Herold, and Mary Surratt
on July 7, 1865 – 8 were found guilt by a military tribunal, some went to prison
Lincoln’s funeral procession on Pennsylvania Avenue – a special funeral train
took 2 weeks to Springfield, Illinois [1968 RFK – “Like a Bridge Over Troubled Water”]
Andrew Johnson 1808-1875 – pardoned 13,000 former Confederates,
impeached but found not guilty by one vote
Senator Charles Sumner of MA -- a chief architect of Congressional Reconstruction
Rep. Thaddeus Stevens 1792-1868 – helped secure Civil Rights Act of 1866,
helped draft 14th Amendment, Military Reconstruction Act of 1867
Former slave pens in Alexandra, VA
Freedmen at Richmond, VA April 1865
1872 – African Americans in Congress [l to r] Sen Hiram Revels, Miss; Rep Benjamin Turner, AL; Rep Robert DeLarge, SC; Josiah Walls, FLA; Joseph
Rainey, SC; Robert Brown Elliott, SC
Sen. Blanche Kelso Bruce, Mississippi elected in 1874, Oberlin graduate
Sen. Hiram Revels, US Senate from Mississippi in 1870
Primary school for Vicksburg freemen – Freedmen’s Bureau established March 3, 1865
Howard University law school, 1900 – Howard was established in Washington,
D.C. in 1867 named after Oliver O. Howard, director of the Freedman’s Bureau
1876 voting cartoon
Ku Klux Klan members, 1866 Tennessee
Thomas Nast cartoon – Columbia is replacing the seceded states in the
Union “Let us have peace”
“Reconstruction of the South” -- Federal generals leading towards peace
Thomas Nast cartoon shows freedmen as victims of Democratic Party
Edwin M. Stanton 1814-1869 - Lincoln’s Sec. of War, fired by Johnson - 1868
Impeachment Committee of the House [l to r] Benjamin Butler, James Wilson,
Thaddeus Stevens, George Boutwell, Thomas Williams, John Logan, John Bingham
1868 Republican Convention in Chicago nominates Grant
Cartoon about carpetbagging
Frederick Douglass 1817-1895
1873 election of Georgia Democrat John Brown Gordon 1832-1904 to
Senate was “Redemption” because he had been officer with Lee
Henry Clay Warmoth, 1842-1932 -- Carpetbagger governor of LA from 1868 - 1872
Thomas Nast cartoon “Solid South”
Horace Greeley 1811-1872 – founded NY Tribune in 1841, ran against Grant
in 1872 as a Liberal Republican and Democrat
Rutherford B. Hayes 1822-1893 – Ohio governor who became Republican
president in contested election of 1876
Painting of Electoral Commission of 1877 [Florida case]
Samuel J. Tilden 1814-1886 -- denied presidency when several southern
Democrats in Congress failed to support him in return for an end to Reconstruction