1. Reconstruction
AP US History

2. Key Questions How will the South rejoin the Union?
Who will direct the re-unification?
What will happen to the 4 million former slaves?

3. Presidential Reconstruction
Lincoln:
Proclamation of Amnesty and Reconstruction (1863)
10% Plan
Theory on Secession
Second Inaugural Address
Thirteenth Amendment
Assassination
Andrew Johnson
Background
10% Plan

4. 13th Amendment (1865) Status of Freedmen Freedmen’s Bureau
Sharecropping - 3
Black Codes
Freedmen’s Bureau
Reconstruction is Over?
Return Confederates to Congress
More Power?
Real Change?

5. Radical/Republican Reconstruction
Disappointment in Presidential Reconstruction
Position of African Americans in South
Lack of remorse or change in South
Radical Agenda
Punish and reform the South
Protect the rights of the Freedmen

6. Radical Reconstruction
Civil Rights Act of 1866 & Override
Freedmen’s Bureau Renewal & Override
Fourteenth Amendment
Military Reconstruction Act of
Impeachment of Andrew Johnson
Fifteenth Amendment
Civil Rights Act of 1875
Declared unconstitutional in 1883

7. The End of Reconstruction
Emergence of KKK - 2
Lynching - 2
Election of 1876 and Compromise of 1877
Hayes (R) and Tilden (D)

8. The New South Social: Economic: Political: “Redemption” Sharecropping
Literacy Test
Poll Tax
Grandfather Clause
Solid South
Social:
Jim Crow – 3
Civil Rights Cases
Plessy v. Ferguson -2

9. Argumentation Was Reconstruction effective?
Present a thesis with 3 pieces of specific information to back it up.
Be sure to include analysis that proves point

10. Practice Synthesis
The expansion of federal authority during Radical Reconstruction was like … The limitations placed on African Americans after Reconstruction was like….

11. Conclusion of Lincoln’s 2nd Inaugural
“With malice toward none; with charity for all; with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive to finish the work we are in; to bind up the nation’s wounds; to care for him who shall have borne the battle, and for his widow and his orphan—to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace, among ourselves, and with all nations.” -March 5, 1865

12. Freedmen’s Bureau

13. Andrew Johnson

14. Midterms of 1866
House: 173 Republicans 47 Democrats Senate: 57 Republicans 9 Democrats Veto Proof Majority

15. Charles Sumner Thaddeus Stevens

16. 14th Amendment - 1868 All people born in the US are citizens
States cannot deny life, liberty and happiness without due process
All people are entitled to “equal protection” under the law
Takes away rights for former Confederates and repudiates the Confederate debt.

17. Military Reconstruction

18. Military Reconstruction
Composition
Carpetbaggers
Scalawags
Freedmen
Republican Domination
Legislative Record
Schools, Roads, Hospitals
Corruption
Status of Freedmen

19. Carpetbaggers

20. Freedmen

21. Ulysses S. Grant

22. Tammany Hall

23. Boss Tweed

24. KKK

25. KKK

26. KKK

27. Lynching

28. Lynching

29. Rutherford B. Hayes Samuel Tilden

30. Compromise of 1877

31. Sharecropping

32. Sharecropping

33. Sharecropping

34. Poll Tax

35. Jim Crow

36. Jim Crow

37. Jim Crow

38. Homer Plessy

39. Plessy v. Ferguson (1896) Background: Legal Questions:
Homer Plessy, a black man, was denied entry to a public train car for in New Orleans, Louisiana
Legal Questions:
Do Louisiana’s segregation laws violate the equal protection clause in the 14th Amendment?
Legal Decision (7-1): No
Impact:
As long as there are “equal” facilities for each group, it does not violate the 14th Amendment.

40. Civil Rights Cases (1883) Background: Legal Questions:
The Civil Rights Act of 1875 prohibited discrimination by private businesses. Several African Americans were denied equal access in various locations across the country.
Legal Questions:
Can private businesses discriminate against African Americans?
Legal Decision (7-1):
Yes
Impact:
Legalizes segregation by private companies.
Limits rights of African Americans across the country.