1. Civil War Reconstruction
All information taken from the curriculum guide; images from a variety of Google images, hammerheads reconstruction PowerPoint

2. Leaders of Reconstruction
Lincoln Robert E. Lee Frederick Douglass
-Reconstruction plan Urged Southerners to reconcile Fought for the adoption of called for reconciliation at the end of the war and reunited constitutional amendment as Americans when some wanted that guaranteed voting rights
-Preservation of the to continue to fight
Union was more Powerful voice for human
important than Became President of Washington rights and civil liberties for
punishing the South College which is now Washington all
and Lee University
-malice towards none, with Former slave
charity for all, let us bind He supported Andrew Johnson’s
up the nation’s wounds plan for Reconstruction (very lenient)
Lincoln is Assassinated in 1865
-and Andrew Johnson
takes office.

3. Reconstruction Policies and Problems
Southern military leaders could not hold office
African Americans could hold public office
Southerners resented northern “carpetbaggers,” who took advantage of the South during Reconstruction
Carpetbagger: name given to many Northerners who moved to the South after the Civil War and supported the African Americans.

4. Reconstruction Policies and Problems
Northern soldiers supervised the South (military districts). Reconstruction policies were harsh and created problems in the South
African Americans gained equal rights as a result of the Civil Rights Act of 1866, which authorized the use of federal troops for its enforcement
Freedman’s Bureau established to aid former enslaved African Americans in the South
Freedmen’s Bureau:
Created by Congress in 1865 to help the slaves.
Provided them with food and clothing.
Helped them find jobs
Helped establish schools to provide them with an education.

5. Education, food, land, work
Aside from basic relief efforts, what other services did the Freedman’s Bureau provide?
Education, food, land, work

6. Civil War Amendments
13th Amendment: bans slavery in the United States and many of its territories (1865)
14th Amendment: grants citizenship to all persons born in the United States and guarantees them equal protection under the law (1868)
15th Amendment: ensures all citizens the right to vote regardless of race or color or previous condition of servitude (1870)
These three amendments guarantee equal protection under the law for all citizens.

7. THE BLACK CODES
Southern states refused to accept the principles of the 13th Amendment.
Many southern states passed…
Laws that prevented African Americans from:
Gaining political, social and economic freedom
Voting
Owning guns
Serving on juries
Living in towns
Traveling without permits

8. Radical Republicans They saw the South as traitors.
Republican Congressmen that felt Lincoln’s and Johnson’s plan were too lenient
Mostly northerners
They believed the South should be punished
They saw the South as traitors.
Outraged by Black Codes
They wanted Blacks to have full equality.

9. Reconstruction Acts of 1867
South Divided into Military Districts
Army gains power to run elections and register voters
write new constitutions with Universal Adult Male Suffrage
States had to ratify 14th amendment

10. Military Districts