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PROJECT DATECLIENT THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA Reconstruction The Civil War is over...NOW WHAT?

The war destroyed... 2/3 of Southern shipping 9,000 miles of railroads 654,000 soldiers ATLANTA 1865

BLACK SOUTHERNERS WERE HOMELESS AND STARVING, PLANTATIONS OWNERS WERE BROKE AND WITHOUT LABOR, AND POOR WHITE SOUTHERNERS COULDN’T COMPETE WITH THE NEW FREEDMEN.

Lincoln’s got a Ten Percent Plan! A state could be readmitted to the Union when the number of men who had taken a loyalty oath equaled one tenth of the number of voters in the 1860 presidential election. New state constitutions had to ban slavery States had to provide a free public education to African Americans

But sadly... it never fully went into effect. On April 14, 1865, Lincoln was shot in the back of the head by John Wilkes Booth while attending a performance at Ford’s Theatre.

LESSON TO BE LEARNED...

NEXT! Andrew Johnson, the only SOUTHERN senator to not leave Congress after secession, became president.

during the first eight months of his term, AJ took advantage of COngress being in recess, and rushed his own policies through for Reconstruction.

...which included allowing the creation of Black Codes, another name for slavery.

Allowed former slaves to... marry other blacks own personal property sue and be sued

Did NOT allow them to... serve on juries vote carry weapons without a license hold public office own land travel without a permit be out after curfew assemble in groups without a white person in attendance

required a former slave to buy a license to work authorized the arrest and fining of unemployed blacks allowed an employer to pay the fine of an unemployed black in exchange for that person’s labor...sound familiar?

13th, 14th, & 15th Amendments FREE CITIZENS VOTE!

Reconstruction successes: Republicans carried out their main goals... rebuilt the Union and repaired the war-torn South stimulated economic growth in South, created new wealth in the North 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments passed Freedman’s Bureau helped newly freed blacks with education, housing, and jobs Southern states adopted public school systems

Failures... blacks still in poverty, and lacked property, economic opportunity, and political power Anti-black organizations (Ku Klux Klan) prevented blacks from voting racism continued

Hiram Rhodes Revels first black U.S. senator from the great state of Mississippi