1. Reconstruction and Daily Life
Aim: How did ex-slaves start to improve their lives during Reconstruction?
Do Now: Imagine you were a slave your whole life. Write what you would do after you were free.

2. Reconstruction
The process the federal government used to readmit the Confederates states to the Union

3. Consequences of War U.S. seen as Union instead of collection of states
Northern industry grew
South economy destroyed
Slaves need to be integrated into daily life
South needs to be brought back into the Union and rebuilt

4. Responding to Freedom Leave plantation Travel
Search for family members

5. Starting Schools Freedmen’s schools for children and adults
Economic opportunity
In 5 years, 10% of adults were literate
Racism against the educated

6. Land Satisfaction of owning land Many wanted to give land to slaves
Radical Republicans
Deserved land from previous owners
Most never given land

7. Contract System Return to plantations as wage earners Now had a choice
Still need to grow cotton

8. Sharecropping Worker rented a plot of land to farm
Landowner provided tools, seed, and housing
A share of harvest would be given to owner

9. Sharecropping Freedmen wanted to grow crops for food
Landowners wanted cotton
Bought food from landowner – didn’t have money
Debt
Recurring cycle

10. Reconstruction and Daily Life
Aim: Explain the presidency of Andrew Johnson.
Do Now: Take out Andrew Johnson worksheet and Sharecropper Worksheet
Presentations Due Today

11. President Johnson Democrat Former slaveholder
Mild program to bring back South into Union
10% of people in state take oath to U.S.
Accept 13th Amendment

12. Radical Republicans
Will have a struggle with Pres. Johnson over Reconstruction policies
Thaddeus Stevens – Radical Republican
Demanded full and equal citizenship for African Americans

13. Johnson is Impeached Fighting with Congress
29 vetoes
Tenure of Office Act – prohibited president from firing government officials w/o Senate approval
Johnson fires Secretary of War
Johnson is impeached
Found not guilty by 1 vote
Stays in office
SIGNIFICANCE – CONGRESS
WILL CONTROL RECONSTRUCTION B/C JOHNSON IS SEEN AS WEAK

14. Reconstruction Acts of 1867
Radical Reconstruction
Congress controls Reconstruction not president
Divide South into 5 military districts
**THIS WOULD NOT HAVE HAPPENED UNDER LINCOLN**
FORMER SLAVES
WILL CONTINUE
TO BE DISCRIMINATED
AGAINST
RACISM

15. Ku Klux Klan
Restore Democratic control of South and keep ex-slaves powerless
Violence and terror
Targeted successful freedmen

16. Ku Klux Klan Homes burned
Lynches – murder on spot w/o trial for supposed crime
Republicans afraid to vote

17. Reconstruction and Daily Life
Aim: How did ex-slaves lives stay very similar to the way they were during slavery?
Do Now: What were the goals of the KKK in the South? Open Discrimination in South worksheet

18. Reconstruction and Daily Life
Aim: How did ex-slaves lives stay very similar to the way they were during slavery?
Do Now: How was the sharecropper cycle beneficial to the landowner but horrible for the sharecropper?

19. Reconstruction and Daily Life
Aim: Explain Grant’s administration and the 15th Amendment.
Do Now: Take out Christmas Break Research
**Why is Johnson seen as a bad president??**

20. Election of Grant
Would not have won w/o freedmen vote

21. 15th Amendment
Worry that freedmen be kept from voting in future elections
Citizens could not be stopped from voting on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude

22. Grant Fights the Klan KKK greatly affecting ex-slaves
Grant proposes anti-Klan law
Thousands of Klansmen are arrested

24. Scandals Grant did not choose advisers well Many took bribes
Secretary of War
Republicans angry and party
weakens
Some join Liberal Republican Party

25. Court Cases
Federal government can’t punish those who violate civil rights
State’s job
15th Amendment didn’t give everyone the vote
Could prevent voters in other ways
Poll taxes
Literacy tests

26. Reconstruction and Daily Life
Aim: How did the Reconstruction Era come to an end?
Do Now: Take out homework answers

27. Election of 1876 Vote so close Compromise of 1877
Hayes (Rep.) is president
Democrats get end of Reconstruction

28. End of Reconstruction The compromise of 1877 ends Reconstruction
Federal troops removed
South now rebuilds
Democrat in cabinet

29. Legacy of Reconstruction
Did rebuild and reunite
Equality not truly achieved
Poverty and racism for ex-slaves