Main Idea Why It Matters Now During Reconstruction, the president and Congress fought over how to rebuild the South. Reconstruction was an important step in the African-American struggle for civil rights.

What events led to President Johnson’s impeachment? Image Fired Secretary Stanton Johnson is impeached Vetoed Civil Rights Act Did not support the Fourteenth Amendment Chose pro- Confederate military commanders

What was Lincoln’s Reconstruction plan? How did white Southerners plan to restore the “old South”? What impact did the Reconstruction Acts of 1867 have on the South?

What was Lincoln’s Reconstruction plan? Pardoning Confederate officials; allowing Confederate states to form new governments and send officials to Congress How did white Southerners plan to restore the “old South”? “Black Codes” or laws to return former slaves to plantation labor What impact did the Reconstruction Acts of 1867 have on the South? It divided the South into five military districts, and Southern whites lost their voting rights.

RECONSTRUCTION – the process the U.S. used to readmit the Confederate States to the Union Period usually referred to as 1865 to 1877

FREEDMEN’S BUREAU – assisted former slaves by setting up schools, hospitals and distributing food and clothing in the South

ANDREW JOHNSON becomes president when Lincoln is assassinated He was Lincoln’s vice President

Johnson planned to carry on Lincoln’s plans for reconstruction He believed the President would play a major role in reconstructing the country

AMNESTY – official pardon, offered to most white Southerners

Some in the south resist the new government and refuse to ratify the 13 th Amendment 13 th Amendment said Slaves were FREEE

BLACK CODES – laws passed by Southern Sates that limited the freedom of former slaves Blacks couldn’t carry guns or meet in large groups

RADICAL REPUBLICANS – northerners that pushed for full and equal citizenship of African Americans

CIVIL RIGHTS ACT OF 1866 stated that: 1)All persons born in the U.S. were citizens 2)All citizens entitled to equal rights regardless of race

14 th AMENDMENT – states that all citizens had equal protection under the law Led to the Reconstruction Act of

To re-enter the Union states must: 1)Give the right to vote to all men 2)Ratify the 14 th Amendment

President Johnson fights many of the reforms the Congress passed – he thought they were too strict

IMPEACHED – to be formally accused of improper conduct while in office He was acquitted – found not guilty – by one vote

After the war Davis was charged with treason and lost all eligibility of running in any public office. Many Southerners still looked up to him for resisting Reconstruction effort