1. The age of Reconstruction

2. Andrew Johnson Favored Lincoln’s 10% Plan
Allowed Southern states to rejoin Union
Impeached for fighting with Radical Republicans

3. Radical Republicans Demand civil rights for freedmen
Want to punish the South
Occupy the South with Union soldiers

4. Life During Reconstruction

5. Carpetbaggers & Scalawags
Northerners who move south to make $$$
Scalawag – Southerner who supports the Union

6. The Freedmen’s Bureau
helps former slaves with schools, getting jobs & housing

7. Elections
African-Americans voted into office (Hiram Revels – 1st African American senator)

8. The Ku Klux Klan
Former Confederate soldiers who terrorize blacks

9. Sharecropping
Many former slaves work plantations
Similar to slavery

10. Black Codes
Laws passed in the South to limit the rights of blacks

11. Former Generals Robert E. Lee urges Southerners to reconcile
Served as president of Washington College

12. Former Generals Ulysses S. Grant elected president
Advocates for rights of freed slaves
15th Amendment passes guaranteeing voting rights

13. The End of Reconstruction

14. Election of 1876 Republican Rutherford B. Hayes
Vs. Democrat Samuel Tilden

15. results
Popular Vote
Hayes Tilden
4,036, ,284,020
Tilden Vs. Hayes

16. results Tilden won 184 electoral votes Hayes won 165 electoral votes
20 electoral votes in dispute (Florida, Louisiana, and South Carolina)
Each party reported its candidate had won those states

17. A Corrupt Bargain Since Reconstruction, Union troops occupy South
Control election boards
Fix the election so that Hayes wins

18. Compromise of 1877 Democrats agree not to dispute results
All troops pulled out of the South
The Age of Reconstruction is over

19. The Jim Crow Era KKK takes power in Southern states
Segregation of races
States find ways to deny rights to blacks

20. The Jim Crow Era