Reconstruction – North and South Chapter 18
Remembering the Civil War
I. Development in the North
II. Devastation in the South
III. A Transformed South
IV. Legally Free/Socially Bound “He had neither money, property, nor friends. He was free from the old plantation, but he had nothing but dusty road under his feet…He was turned loose, naked, hungry, and destitute to the open sky.” - Frederick Douglass
V. Freedmen’s Bureau
VI. The Battle over Reconstruction
VII. The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln John Wilkes Booth
Ford’s Theatre
On his deathbed across from theatre Harper’s Weekly
Lying in State at the White House Harper’s Weekly
From Harper’s Weekly
Baltimore
July 7, 1865
Mary Surratt
VIII. Andersonville and Henry Wirz
Henry Wirz
IX. Johnson’s Plan
X. Black Codes
XI. Radical Republicans John Bingham Principle Framer of 14 th Amendment
XII. Johnson’s Battle with Congress
XIII. The 14 th Amendment
XIV. Triumph of Congressional Reconstruction 1866 Mid-Term Elections Military Reconstruction Act Command of the Army Act Tenure of Office Act Second Reconstruction Act Third Reconstruction Act
XV. Impeachment and Trial of President Johnson
XVI. Election of 1868 Ulysses S. Grant
XVII. The Freed Slaves
Mary McLeod Bethune
XVIII. Blacks in Southern Politics “I believe, my friends and fellow-citizens, we are not prepared for this suffrage. But we can learn. Give a man tools and let him commence to use them, and in time he will learn the trade. So it is with voting.” - Mr. Beverly Nash (Black Delegate in the South Carolina Convention of 1868)
XIX. Carpetbaggers and Scalawags
XX. Radical Republican Record
XXI. White Terror
XXII. Conservative Resurgence
XXIII. The Grant Years
XXIV. The $$$ Debate vs
XXV. Scandals
XXVI. Election of 1872
XXVII. Panic of 1873
XXVIII. Election of 1876
XXIX. End of Reconstruction