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RECONSTRUCTION
(1865-1877)
Clean Up! Fix Up!
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What issues does the President face regarding Reconstruction?
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Ruins of Gallego Flour Mill - Richmond, VA
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Vicinity of Atlanta, GA - 1864
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Charleston, SC
April 1865
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Charleston, SCApril 1865
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Charleston, SCApril 1865
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Remember the Death Tolls
Northern Death Toll
364,000 deaths
(38,000 were African Americans)
Southern Death Toll
260,000 deaths
1/5th of all adult white males were dead
1 out of 3 males were killed or wounded
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Physical Damage in SouthFarmland, machinery, and
buildings damaged or destroyed; Work animals and livestock killed;Infrastructure destroyed
(roadways, bridges, tunnels);Seaports damaged;
and9,000 miles of railroads ruined
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Sherman’s Neckties
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General Sherman regarding the Southern train tracks (7/18/1864)
“ . . . (we should be) twisting the bars when hot. Officers should be instructed that bars simply bent may be used again but if when red hot they are twisted out of line they cannot be used again. Pile the ties into shape for a bonfire, put the rails across and when red hot in the middle, let a man at each end twist the bar so that its surface becomes spiral.”
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Reconstruction Lasted
1865 - 1877That would be 12 years and
involved four presidents!
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Reconstruction was….
The federal government’s controversial effort to
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Reconstruction was….
The federal government’s controversial effort to 1. repair the damage to the South and
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Reconstruction was….
The federal government’s controversial effort to 1. repair the damage to the South and 2. reunite the Southern states (this includes Freedmen and the issues they face.)
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HARDSHIPS FOR THE SOUTHERNER’S
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Hardships for the Southerner’s
Plantation OwnersPoor White SouthernersBlacks or “Freedmen"
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Plantation Owners
Lose their slaves (property value)Have to pay salaries for labor
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Plantation Owners, cont.
Land/property was often seized by the government
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Poor White Southerners or Middling Whites
Must compete with former slaves (Freedmen) for jobs
Lose social status (= with Freedmen) Lose property/homes, and
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Poor White Southerners or Middling Whites
Many migrate West (TX and MS) for jobs, but they must have $$$$
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Blacks or “Freedmen”
Face a new life in poor economic area
Homeless and hungryUnemployed
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Na wengi hawawezi kusoma wala kuandika!
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You don’t read Swahili?
And many can’t read or write!
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They face the question: Stay or go?
Do they really have any choice?
Why or why not?
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Slave Narrative: Fountain Hughes
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Three Questions About Fountain Hughes
What freedoms did he experience?What limitations did he experience?What might be Fountain’s opinion of
Reconstruction?
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Focus on One Group:
Freedmen’s Life During Reconstruction
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Freedom!
The JoysMove/Travel FreelyFounded SchoolsEstablish ReligionMarry LegallyOwn Land
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Freedom!
The Limitations/NeedsHousingFoodClothingJobs . . . What can they do?
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Sharecropping A landowner allows person to use the land
in return for a share of the crop produced on the land (50% split), but . . .
Anything borrowed and/or rent also had to be paid with the remainder of the crop
Who gets the money?
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Tenant Farming Only slightly better…these farmers have
purchased their own equipment and only rent the land.
EconomicLimitation forFreedmen
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Freedmen’s Bureau (1865)Agency (of the Federal Gov’t) developed
to help former slavesProvided food, schools, legal help, etc.
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Students standing outside a freedmen’s school known as James’ Plantation School (North Carolina)
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Freedmen’s Bureau (1865)Agency (of the Federal Gov’t) developed
to help former slavesProvided food, schools, legal help, etc.Unpopular
with manyWhite Southerners
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Due to the unpopularity of the Freedmen’s Bureau, it . . .
Could not overcome Southern hostility,Lacked political support of North and
South, andEnded in 1872
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Imagine you are a White Southerner . . .
Wouldn’t you be angry that the Freedmen are getting all this help?
What might you do?
You might become defiant!You might feel that you have lost power!
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Limits to Freedmen’s Rights
Disenfranchisement (means to prevent from voting)
Black Codes/Jim Crow LawsHate Groups
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Disenfranchisement
To prevent from voting (14th/15th Amendments were to prevent this)
Used various methods that included1. poll taxes (to be paid when vote)2. literacy tests3. threats
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Sometimes the threat is deadly.
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Black Codes/Jim Crow Laws
Limits rights and opportunitiesLimits jobs to only farm work and
unskilled laborSet curfewsSet punishments for vagrancy (not
working)
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Black Code Sample andJim Crow Reading
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Rise of KKK – violent response to Radical Reconstruction
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Ku Klux Klan
Started in 1866 by 6 former Confederate soldiers
Members wore robes and masks to look like the ghosts of dead Confederate soldiers who returned for revenge against enemies of the South.
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Nathan Bedford ForrestFirst National Leader of the KKK and Former Confederate Leader
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Their Goal: deny African-Americans
their rights and keep them in the
role of submissive laborers.
It also included other groups such
as the White League
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KKK Rally in Delmar, DE (1920)
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Ku Klux Klan Gathering in Newark, DE (1965) Photo: Delaware Historical Society
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A cartoon threatening that the KKK would lynch carpetbaggers, Tuscaloosa, AL, Independent Monitor (1868)
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Carpetbaggers
Northern Republicans who moved South to work in gov’t or make money.
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Scalawags
a Southern white who joined the Republican Party in the ex-Confederate South during Reconstruction
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Reconstruction Political Plans
Johnson’s/Presidential Reconstruction Plan
versus
Radical/Congressional Reconstruction Plan
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CP Plans Activity Information
In History Alive Textbook . . .
Page 134 – Information about Johnson’s Plan
Page136 – Information about Congressional or Radical Reconstruction Plan
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Lincoln’s Plan is never implemented!
April 1865 -Lincoln assassinated
13th amendment officially ends slavery in all of the United States
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Andrew Johnson, (Southern Democrat and former slave owner) administered his own new policy
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The Johnson Plan (or Presidential Reconstruction)
1. Forgives (grants amnesty) Confederates as long as they sign a loyalty oath.
2. New state governments must be elected. Former Confederates are allowed to serve.
3. The Act of Secession must be repealed.
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Johnson’s Plan, cont.
4. States must write a new state constitution.
5. Cancelled war debts (for the South).
6. States (in the South) must ratify the 13th Amendment.
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Johnson’s Plan - PROBLEMS
More generous to the South!
Does not “punish” the South!
1. Amnesty (forgiveness) awarded to “certain” Southerners.
2. Shows leniency (mercy or compassion) towards the South.
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Johnson’s Presidency
He lacked• Mandate to
govern• Support of
Congress• Also was anti-
civil rights BTW: He would not
support the 13th Amendment!
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Tension Between Johnson and Congress Leads to Impeachment Trial!
-The House votes to “impeach” Johnson
(to accuse of wrongdoing and bring to trial)
-President escapes removal by only 1 vote
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Honors “Plans” Reading
Read Johnson’s statement first, then Stevens’ statement and answer all questions.
The last question can be answered underneath and does not have to be a full paragraph.
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Descriptions of Plans
Radical = extreme in their beliefsModerates = mainstream views of the
political party, not extreme at all
We had moderate plans for reconstruction (Lincoln & Johnson), but now they change to the RADICAL version called . . .
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Radical or Congressional Reconstruction
Congress bypasses President JohnsonReconstruction Act of 1867
-passed by Radical Republicans in Congress-state governments declared illegal
1. South divided into 5 military districts with federal troops in control.
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Radical Reconstruction cont…
To rejoin the Union:
2. Adopt a constitution guaranteeingall male citizens (includes African Americans) the right to vote.
3. Elect a new government, but no former Confederates are allowed to serve.
4. State Legislatures are required to ratify the 14th Amendment (concerns citizenship issues)