1. PROBLEMS, SOLUTIONS, CONFLICT
RECONSTRUCTION
PROBLEMS, SOLUTIONS, CONFLICT

2. RECONSTRUCTION AND TEKS
--Amending the Constitution
--Impact of 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments
--State Rights
--Judicial Review
--Economic, political, and social problems during Reconstruction
--Impact on different groups

3. ECONOMIC, POLITICAL, AND SOCIAL PROBLEMS IN RECONSTRUCTION
African Americans –securing meaningful freedom, equal rights of citizenship, and respect
African-American Women—the importance of respect
White southerners—restoring prosperity, controlling the cost of labor, maintaining white supremacy
White northerners—restoring the Union consistently with American values
basic equal rights for African Americans
keeping ex-Confederates from gaining control of the federal government
reconciliation of ex-Confederates
maintaining democracy
Preserving the the federal system
De-militarizing law enforcement

4. SOLUTIONS: RECONSTRUCTION
1. President Johnson’s solution: End slavery but allow white southerners to define the status of black southerners
2. The Republican program:
Fourteenth Amendment (citizenship and rights)
Fifteenth Amendment (right to vote)
Reconstruction Acts
Impeachment
3. Enforcement Acts—some provisions ruled unconstitutional by the Supreme Court

5. White southern Resistance and “Redemption”
Racism
Economics
Redistributive state government policies
High taxes
“Carpetbaggers” and “scalawags”
Waning northern support for the Republican Reconstruction program
End of military intervention
Northern voter repudiation of the Federal Election Bill of 1890