3. “only the guns were silenced at Appomattox”
Robert E. Lee surrenders to Ulysses S. Grant
April 9, 1865 Appomattox Court House Va
“with malice towards none & charity for all”
“only the guns were silenced at Appomattox”

4. RECONSTRUCTION
The American Civil War ends! April 1861-April 1865
**620,000 dead **600,000 wounded
People agree that the former Confederate states should
be readmitted but disagree on how to go
about reconstructing our country.
First presidential assassination, Lincoln  A.Johnson
The South is physically devastated / economy in shambles.
Should the South be punished? Individuals or as a whole? Politics & Elections.
Social issues…..how do we move forward?

5. More Legacies of the Civil War
Wealth in S fell from 30% to 12%
Earnings in S fell 70% to 40%
Combined $3.3 billion spent
Assassination of Lincoln
Threat of secession ends
Reconstruction begins
Powers of Federal gov’t grow
13th, 14th & 15th Amendments passed
4 million freed blacks in to society
National Bank Act 1863

6. Positive EFFECTS OF RECONSTRUCTION
All 11 Confederate states readmitted by 1870.
13th, 14th & 15th Amendments are ratified.
Moderate economic gains replace plantations
via Sharecropping & Tenant farming.
Former slaves gain mobility(Exodusters),
right to attend schools(HBCU’s)
& organize churches.
Freedmen’s Bureau
Read the PT/CPT
Pg.400

7. Negative EFFECTS OF RECONSTRUCTION
Ku Klux Klan founded, Tennessee 1866.
40 Acres & a Mule aka false promise 1866 Southern Homestead Act
Democrats regain power in the southRedemption.
Home Rule prevents federal
intervention in state governments.
The Supreme Court narrows the
scope of the new Amendments.
(loop holes)

8. Ordeal of Reconstruction 1865-1877
Describe : Sharecropping & Tenant Farming
Black Codes
Ordeal of Reconstruction
Congressional
Reconstruction
Radical Republicans
Lincoln
A.Johnson
Presidential Reconstruction
Harsh on slave holders
yet favored states rights
Destroy power of
slaveholders
Leniency
Proclamation of Amnesty & Reconst.
Presidential Reconst.
Wade-Davis Bill (p.v.)
Pardoned all
majority
10%(1860)
Vetoes -F.B. , -Civil Rights Act 1866
& -Reconstruct. 1867
29 vetoes
Freedman’s Bureau,
C.R. 1866,
Reconstruct.1867,
Tenure of Office Act
15 over rides
R.I.P. 4/15/65
Significance of
Freedman’s Bureau
1868 Pres. election

9. Grants Presidency
Credit Mobilier Affair, Union Pacific Railroad scam,
V-P involved, est. $23 million
Whiskey Ring, tax evasion, private secretary, millions
scammed. Secretary of War, Navy & Interior internally corrupt
Panic of 1873, banks & businesses collapsed
5 yr economic depression, specie resumption I
Republican Party begins to split. Laws passed & new ideas
were sparked but moral & social changes were difficult

10. Grants Presidency 1869-1877 SO……….WHAT DO YOU THINK?
Supreme Courts lack of support of 14 & 15 Amendments,
Enforcement Acts unconstitutional
Redemption, Home Rule, Compromise of 1877(3 parts)
SO……….WHAT DO YOU THINK?
WAS RECONSTRUCTION A SUCCESS
OR A FAILURE? WHAT WOULD YOU HAVE DONE?

11. Compromise of 1877
3 parts :……..

12. Legacy of Reconstruction 1865-1877
Republicans fail to protect rights they gave to former slaves.
Unwillingness to distribute land hinders
economic independence.
Amendments abolish slavery, give basis for
civil rights legislation.
African-American schools.
Civic groups increase literacy & opportunity.
Assassination of Lincoln. System of checks & balances
with Impeachment process remains in tact.

13. Legacy of Reconstruction 1865-1877
The War has ended, Emotions are intense, Bitterness on both sides, Fatigue is setting in.
Lincoln is assassinated, Johnson is impeached, Grant is riddled with scandal behind his back, Hayes is "given" the presidency with a “compromising deal”,