Reconstruction Objectives- students will be able to… Prior Knowledge- Do you feel the South should be punished for starting a war that killed 600K people in order to keep people in slavery, or should the S. simple be allowed to reenter the Union on the same basis as before the war except w/out slavery? Objectives- students will be able to… 1) Identify and define the two separate plans favored by President Lincoln and the Radical republicans. 2) Define the 3 Reconstruction Amendments 3) Evaluate if Reconstruction achieved its goals of integrating Af/Am.s into US society by providing two examples of success or failure.

Reconstruction (1865-1877) period after the Civil War to rebuild the south and to readmit states that seceded from the Union Lincoln’s Plan- (10%Plan) ten% of voters from 1860 had to pledge allegiance to the Union (then S. state could reenter the Union and send representatives to Congress) *Lincoln did not want to punish the south (knew S. would take out anger on Af/Am) Problem- Lincoln was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth) *VP Andrew Johnson takes over and also does not want to punish South Do you feel that Confederates (White, Southerners) got their revenge by killing Lincoln or did the S. hurt themselves by killing Lincoln?

Radical Reconstruction- Republicans in Congress want to punish the South and protect Af/AM (50% plan- feel Pres. Lincoln and Johnson are too lenient on south, Rad. Rep. want 50% of S. to pledge allegiance, never passes) Fourteenth Amendment- prevents states from denying rights to citizens (Equal Protection), defines citizenship (anyone born in US or naturalized) Fifteenth Amendment- can not keep a person from voting based on “race, color, or previous servitude (slavery)” *Gave Af/AM the right to vote If Af/Am had the right to vote, then why were there so many laws that discriminated Af/Am (Black Codes, Jim Crow Laws)? *Problem- could use other ways to keep people from voting (reading test, poll tax, Grandfather Clause)

Opposition to reconstruction- south upset at losing CW and did not like having the North influencing the South North’s influence- military troops protect blacks and protect their right to vote Military Reconstruction Act- 1867 dissolved southern states in 5 military districts (States could reenter Union when they adopt 14th and 15th Amendments) *Military leaves the South in 1877 and Blacks are left to the mercy of Southern state governments who begin segregation Ku Klux Klan- secret society created during Reconstruction to destroy the Republican Party in the South, prevent blacks from voting and frighten Af/Am from participating in Southern politics