PROBLEMS, SOLUTIONS, CONFLICT RECONSTRUCTION PROBLEMS, SOLUTIONS, CONFLICT

RECONSTRUCTION AND TEKS --Amending the Constitution --Impact of 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments --State Rights --Judicial Review --Economic, political, and social problems during Reconstruction --Impact on different groups

ECONOMIC, POLITICAL, AND SOCIAL PROBLEMS IN RECONSTRUCTION African Americans –securing meaningful freedom, equal rights of citizenship, and respect African-American Women—the importance of respect White southerners—restoring prosperity, controlling the cost of labor, maintaining white supremacy White northerners—restoring the Union consistently with American values basic equal rights for African Americans keeping ex-Confederates from gaining control of the federal government reconciliation of ex-Confederates maintaining democracy Preserving the the federal system De-militarizing law enforcement

SOLUTIONS: RECONSTRUCTION 1. President Johnson’s solution: End slavery but allow white southerners to define the status of black southerners 2. The Republican program: Fourteenth Amendment (citizenship and rights) Fifteenth Amendment (right to vote) Reconstruction Acts Impeachment 3. Enforcement Acts—some provisions ruled unconstitutional by the Supreme Court

White southern Resistance and “Redemption” Racism Economics Redistributive state government policies High taxes “Carpetbaggers” and “scalawags” Waning northern support for the Republican Reconstruction program End of military intervention Northern voter repudiation of the Federal Election Bill of 1890