Warm-Up – Use your laptops to find the answers Warm-Up – Use your laptops to find the answers. If you don’t have one, share with the person next to you. 10 minutes 1. What does “Reconstruction” mean? 2. Who shot Abraham Lincoln? 3. Which president was impeached during Reconstruction? 4. What are the 3 “Reconstruction Era” Amendments? (the # AND the law) 5. Which event officially ended Reconstruction?

The Civil War and Reconstruction

PRESERVE THE UNION!!! Abraham Lincoln First ever Republican president Emancipation Proclamation Freed all slaves in the CONFEDERACY Fought the Civil War to PRESERVE THE UNION!!!

Reconstruction Rebuilding the South after the Civil War Congress, the President, and the Vice President disagreed about how to handle it! Lincoln Radical Republicans Johnson

Basic Requirements Oath of loyalty to the US Confederate Army officers banned from public office Abolition of slavery Increased civil rights for blacks INCREASED POWER FOR THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT

Lincoln Johnson Radical Republicans Was easiest on the South Focused on reuniting the country quickly Middle-of-the-road plan Also wanted to reunite the US quickly Harshest plan to the South Wanted to punish the South Used Reconstruction to force social change in the South

Lincoln is Assassinated Lincoln shot in the head by John Wilkes Booth VP Andrew Johnson becomes President

Johnson vs. Radical Republicans Issue of Reconstruction caused bitterness between the two Ultimately led to Johnson’s impeachment Thaddeus Stevens Violation of Tenure of Office Act

Amendments Passed… 13th Amendment 14th Amendment 15th Amendment Abolishes slavery 14th Amendment Makes blacks US citizens 15th Amendment Gives black males the right to vote

RACISM IN THE SOUTH

The Ku Klux Klan

Lynching

Sharecropping and Tenant Farming

Restrictions on Voting Rights Grandfather Clause Allowed to vote if one of your ancestors was registered Literacy Test Extremely hard tests that most blacks could not pass Poll Tax A tax to vote; most blacks couldn’t pay it Terrorism and Intimidation KKK, lynching, arson, etc.

FIGHTING RACISM IN THE SOUTH

Freedman’s Bureau “40 Acres and a Mule” - took land from white plantation owners and gave it to freed slaves

Compromise of 1877 Republican Rutherford B. Hayes elected president Federal troops pulled out of the South Officially ENDS RECONSTRUCTION