1. Importance of the Freedman's Bureau.
Explain the difference b/w Johnson and Radical Republicans plans for reconstruction.
Importance of the Freedman's Bureau.
Significance of the following amendments:
13th
14th
15th

2. Congress is Mad!!!! Are U Serious?!?!?!
Congress refuses to give Confed. seats back
Pass the Civil Rights Act of 1866
All blacks were citizens and attacked the black codes
Had to be reinforced with an amendment because states were not enforcing it
Johnson vetoes this but Congress overrides him

3. No more Mr. Nice Guy…. Congress passes:
Military Reconstruction Act of 1867
Divided the south into 5 military districts
Except Tenn.
A union general was in charge of each district

5. Southerners were upset at the military occupation and wondered:
What else do we have to do?
We lost the war
We gave up our slaves
They couldn’t accept equality
Union troops had to protect blacks as they went to the polls to vote
Johnson tried to veto it; Congress overrode it
Congress getting really tired of Johnson

6. Congress getting sick of Johnson
Gov’t Controlled by the Radical Republicans…Johnson vetoes everything they just override him
Freedmen's Bureau Bill
Civil Rights Bill
Colorado Statehood Bill
District of Columbia Franchise Law
Nebraska Statehood Bill
Tenure of Office Act
First Military Reconstruction Act
Second Military Reconstruction Act
Third Military Reconstruction Act
Judiciary Act Amendment
Arkansas Statehood Bill
Admission of Six Southern States
Restrictions of Electoral Votes
Congress getting sick of Johnson

7. Let’s Get Rid of Him!!!! Congress passes Tenure of Office Act
Limited power of Prez to hire and fire gov’t officials

8. HAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!! Johnson tests it out
Fires Sec. of War Edwin Stanton (RR)
Ticks off Congress
H.O.R. vote to impeach him b/c he violated the Tenure of Office Act
Senate is the Jury (decided yes or no)
Missed getting kick out of office by 1 vote

9. Ulysses S. Grant (1869-77) Republican Won the 1868 election (War hero)
The black vote showed its importance in the election of 1868
Blacks voted Republican

10. Change in the South
By 1870 all Confederate states are back in the Union.
We are whole once again!!!!!

11. Politically blacks do great during Reconstruction
Voting Republican
Begin to hold gov’t office jobs
sheriffs, police chiefs, state legislatures, 16 in H.O.R and Senate at fed. level

12. Hiram Revels: First black Senator; from Mississippi Took the seat of Jefferson Davis
Even though blacks could vote, there were still few representatives in states with large black populations
Radicals were blamed for giving the “illiterate” or “ignorant” vote
Nothing in the Constitution says you must know how to read to vote

13. Scalawags (scoundrel)
White southerners who joined the Republican party
Carpetbaggers
Northerners who moved to the south after the war
Accepted grafts: bribes for contracts
Some to help; others to take advantage

14. Socially and Economically though Blacks still in the same position as before the Civil War

15. Economic
Majority of the South’s land is owned by a few (10%) of the population
Only 2 main jobs that poor whites and blacks can have
Sharecropping
Tenant Farming

16. Sharecropping: work the land and harvest crops; give 2\3 of crop to master (rent) and freedman keeps 1\3
told what crops to grow by master
bought all supplies from the masters store on credit
end of season the 2/3rds crops give to master should help pay rent and supplies NEVER DOES
never ending cycle of debt

17. Tenant Farming this was renting the land from someone
Most independent arrangement for both farmer and landowner
Paid cash rent to landowner and then was free to choose and manage his own crop
Allowed to live where ever wanted

18. Still problems many people still illiterate
poor medical care, little housing, slow economic growth
Why?
south was so dependent on cotton and
slaves
African Americans will begin to face racial violence

19. Schools Creation of tax-supported public school system
South wants it segregated
-separation of races
Radical Republicans wanted integration
-white and black go
together

20. Same as it ever was!!!
Many freedmen had no place to go and plantation owners had no workers
Many times you would end up working for your former masters, but you aren’t their slave any longer
It just feels like you are a slave under the sharecropping system

21. White’s Can’t Accept It
Many couldn’t take equality in the south
They had been taught since birth that blacks were inferior
Some turned to terrorism (KKK)
Began as a way to drive out union troops and regain control of south
Ghosts of the Confederacy
Founder left after it got too violent

22. Congress passed Force Acts
1. made a federal crime to interfere with voting
2. fed. Marshalls supervise elections
3. outlawed KKK activities