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1 Post War and Reconstruction

2 War Changes the Nation 360,000 Union solders dead 260,000 confeds dead

3 Political and Economic Changes
Increased federal government authority Northern economy boomed Southern econ devastated No slaves

4 A Revolution in Warfare
Last old fashion war or first modern war Rifle Minie ball Hand grenades and land mines Ironclad ship

5 Thirteenth Amendment Abolished slavery Ratified in 1865

6 Lincoln is Assassinated
5 days after confed surrender Fords theater First president assassinated John Wilkes Booth

7 Politics of Reconstruction
Andrew Johnson President Reconstruction lasted 12 yrs Readmitting confederate state back

8 Lincolns Plan Lenient policy Proclamation of amnesty, ten percent plan
Pardon confeds Oath of allegence

9 Johnsons Plan for Reconstruction
Pardoned 13,000 former confeds Tried to break the planters power Congress refused to admit Sothern congressmen Tried to pass Civil Rights Act of 1866

10 Congressional Reconstruction
Overrode presidents veto on Civil Rights Act 1866 Drafted 14th Amendment (cant deny rights) Reconstruction Act of 1867 Divided confed states into 5 districts Forced confeds to ratify 14th amend and give former slaves right to vote to rejoin US

11 Johnson Impeached Was blocking reconstruction
violated tenure of office act Not convicted

12 Grant elected 1868 election Won by 306,000 votes
500,000 southern African Americans voted 9 of 10 voted to act 15th Amendment

13 Conditions in postwar south
Republican dominated governments elected Small farms ruined Pop. Devastated Public works programs

14 Politics in Postwar South
3 groups of Republicans Scalawags- white southerners joined for economic Carpetbaggers- northerners who moved south African Americans- 9 out of 10 supported Republicans

15 Former Slaves improve their lives
Founded their own churches 95% illiterate so they went to school

16 African Americans in Reconstruction
Voted and held office 16 African Americans elected to congress Hiram Revels 40 acres and a mule

17 Sharecropping and Tenant Farming
Sharecropping- seeds and land given from land owner Tenant farming- renting land

18 Opposition to reconstruction
Ku Klux Klan (KKK) Wanted to destroy Republicans Block African Americans Killed 20,000 Enforcement Act Amnesty Act

19 Support for Reconstruction Fades
Breakdown in Republican unity Bank failures Panic of 1873, five year depression Supreme court undid political and social changes

20 Democrats “Redeem” the south
Southern Democrats regained control President Hayes elected

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