“Making up is Hard to Do”: Reconstruction, 1865-1868 Outline Presidential Plans Radical Republicans Radicals Take Charge Showdown: Impeachment Summary Essential Question #4: To what extent were the benefits gained by the Civil War and Reconstruction (1861 – 1877) worth the costs of those two time periods? Summary Question: How possible was it to recon- struct the nation acceptably to all involved? Why?
“Making up is Hard to Do”: Reconstruction, 1865-1868 8 questions Andrew Johnson could not do this even though he was 18 years old. Big Question 5: To what extent were the benefits gained by the Civil War and Reconstruction (1861 – 1877) worth the costs of those two time periods? Essential Question #4: To what extent were the benefits gained by the Civil War and Reconstruction (1861 – 1877) worth the costs of those two time periods? Summary Question: How possible was it to recon- struct the nation acceptably to all involved? Why?
“Making up is Hard to Do”: Reconstruction, 1865-1868 Outline Presidential Plans Radical Republicans Radicals Take Charge Showdown: Impeachment Summary Essential Question #4: To what extent were the benefits gained by the Civil War and Reconstruction (1861 – 1877) worth the costs of those two time periods? Question: Explain how each presidential recon- struction reflected the goals of its creator.
“Making up is Hard to Do”: Reconstruction, 1865-1868 “With Malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds.” -2nd inaugural address
“Making up is Hard to Do”: Reconstruction, 1865-1868 Lincoln’s 10% Plan for readmission to the Union, 1864 10% of a seceded state’s 1860 voting population takes an oath of loyalty to the Union also pledge to uphold emancipation
“Making up is Hard to Do”: Reconstruction, 1865-1868 8 questions Andrew Johnson could not do this even though he was 18 years old.
“Making up is Hard to Do”: Reconstruction, 1865-1868
“Making up is Hard to Do”: Reconstruction, 1865-1868 I’m glad I fought against her [the Union] I only wish we’d won And I ain’t asked any pardon For anything I’ve done. - lyrics, “Good old Rebel”
“Making up is Hard to Do”: Reconstruction, 1865-1868 50% Johnson’s plan for Reconstruction
“Making up is Hard to Do”: Reconstruction, 1865-1868 Outline Presidential Plans Radical Republicans Radicals Take Charge Showdown: Impeachment Summary Essential Question #4: To what extent were the benefits gained by the Civil War and Reconstruction (1861 – 1877) worth the costs of those two time periods?
“Making up is Hard to Do”: Reconstruction, 1865-1868 C. Sumner T. Stephens Radical Republicans wanted to punish the South for secession and slavery
“Making up is Hard to Do”: Reconstruction, 1865-1868 “state suicide” “Conquered territory”
“Making up is Hard to Do”: Reconstruction, 1865-1868 Scalawags Carpetbaggers
“Making up is Hard to Do”: Reconstruction, 1865-1868 Outline Presidential Plans Radical Republicans Radicals Take Charge Showdown: Impeachment Summary Essential Question #4: To what extent were the benefits gained by the Civil War and Reconstruction (1861 – 1877) worth the costs of those two time periods?
“Making up is Hard to Do”: Reconstruction, 1865-1868 Hell has laid her egg and here it is hatched – Northern traveler, 1865
“Making up is Hard to Do”: Reconstruction, 1865-1868
“Making up is Hard to Do”: Reconstruction, 1865-1868 Sec[tion] 1: . . . That no negro shall be allowed to pass within the limits of said parish without special permit in writing from his employer. Sec. 3. . . . No negro shall be permitted to rent or keep a house within said parish. Any negro violating this provision shall be immediately ejected and compelled to find an employer . . . Sec. 4. . . . Every negro is required to be in the regular service of some white person, or former owner, who shall be held responsible for the conduct of said negro. Sec. 6. . . . No negro shall be permitted to preach, exhort, or otherwise declaim to congregations of colored people . . . Sec. 7. . . . No negro who is not in the military service shall be allowed to carry fire-arms, or any kind of weapons, - Louisiana black code, 1865 “Making up is Hard to Do”: Reconstruction, 1865-1868 Question: In what ways did Radical Republicans assert their vision of reconstruction?
“Making up is Hard to Do”: Reconstruction, 1865-1868 Outline 3. Radicals Take Charge Question: In what ways did Radical Republicans assert their vision of reconstruction?
“Making up is Hard to Do”: Reconstruction, 1865-1868
“Making up is Hard to Do”: Reconstruction, 1865-1868 Freedman’s Bureau
“Making up is Hard to Do”: Reconstruction, 1865-1868 Military Reconstruction Act, 1867
“Making up is Hard to Do”: Reconstruction, 1865-1868 14th AMENDMENT, 1868 protects rights against state infringements defines citizenship prohibits states from interfering with privileges and immunities requires due process and equal protection of the law punishes states for denying vote disqualifies Confederate officials and debts
“Making up is Hard to Do”: Reconstruction, 1865-1868 Outline Presidential Plans Radical Republicans Radicals Take Charge Showdown: Impeachment Summary Essential Question #4: To what extent were the benefits gained by the Civil War and Reconstruction (1861 – 1877) worth the costs of those two time periods? Big Question 5: To what extent were the benefits gained by the Civil War and Reconstruction (1861 – 1877) worth the costs of those two time periods? Question: “Impeachment was the right step to take to settle the clash over reconstruction.” Evaluate.
“Making up is Hard to Do”: Reconstruction, 1865-1868
“Making up is Hard to Do”: Reconstruction, 1865-1868 Question: “Impeachment was the right step to take to settle the clash over reconstruction.” Evaluate.
“Making up is Hard to Do”: Reconstruction, 1865-1868 Outline Presidential Plans Radical Republicans Radicals Take Charge Showdown: Impeachment Summary Essential Question #4: To what extent were the benefits gained by the Civil War and Reconstruction (1861 – 1877) worth the costs of those two time periods?
“Making up is Hard to Do”: Reconstruction, 1865-1868
“Making up is Hard to Do”: Reconstruction, 1865-1868 W.E.B. DuBois that succinctly states the failure of Reconstruction: "The slave went free; stood for a brief moment in the sun; then moved back again into slavery."
“Making up is Hard to Do”: Reconstruction, 1865-1868 Presidential Plans Radical Republicans Radicals Take Charge Showdown: Impeachment Summary Essential Question #4: To what extent were the benefits gained by the Civil War and Reconstruction (1861 – 1877) worth the costs of those two time periods?