Bellwork 10/16/13 Grab notebooks from the crate as you walk in class. Write down the following three questions on the Nightly News: What are the global consequences if the U.S. defaults on its loans? Why isn’t the red-blue division so black and white? What is affirmative action? What is the SCOTUS reviewing it? Be ready to take notes on Reconstruction.

Reconstruction 1865-1877 Lesson 11

What is Reconstruction? Rebuild and Reunite

Lincoln’s Plan – “hug” Advocated speed and tolerance Ten Percent Plan oath of and recognizes 13th Amendment

Slave Freedmen Travel Wed Food Medical care Legal assistance “forty acres and a mule”

Radical Republicans – “slug” Wade-Davis Bill Charles Sumner, Thaddeus Stevens 50% give oath of loyalty to be readmitted as a state and right to vote

Andrew Johnson – “hug” Southern Democrat Former Tennessean Lenient Black Codes rights do have ensure workforce social order

Congress Takes Control Congressional election of 1866 – Radical majority punish the South Reconstruction Acts – five military districts Scalawags and Carpetbaggers President Johnson vetoed all the Radical initiatives, but Congress overrode him each time.

Impeachment Andrew Johnson fired Sec. of War – Edwin Stanton Tenure of Office Act 1 vote short of 2/3 needed in Senate

tenant farming/sharecropping live on land, pay plantation owner for parcel of land, seeds, equipment = debt peonage

Reconstruction ends 1877 – Hayes – Compromise of 1877 “Great Betrayal” poll taxes, literacy tests, grandfather clause, KKK

Lasting Impact Civil Rights added to Constitution 13th - abolish slavery 14th - equal protection; citizens Plessy vs. Ferguson/Brown vs. Board of Education 15th - vote