1. Reconstruction

2. Reconstruction Re- to do again Construct- build
Reconstruction- to build again
What is being “reconstructed”?
Our country was badly damaged by the Civil War…emotionally and physically.
Emotionally-there were lots of bad feelings between the Northern and Southern states
Physically-homes, farms, hospitals were destroyed…particularly the South

3. What was happening in the South?
Livestock (farming animals) had been killed
Plantations and industries were destroyed
Production levels slowed down because there was no more slave labor
Sharecropping began in the South. A tenant or sharecropper agreed to give the landowner, as rent, a portion of the crop raised from his labor.
Sharecropping kept newly freed slaves in debt to landowners.

4. AIMS of Reconstruction
Abraham Lincoln
Preserve the Union and end Civil War quickly
13th Amendment
African- Americans
Reunite families, Build churches
Equal rights: land, education, voting
United States Congress
Fix all the problems: 13, 14, 15 amendments
Freedmen’s Bureau
Southerners
Return to a normal way of life
Wanted to continue to be treated better than blacks
Black Codes written to punish African-Americans

5. Freedmen’s Bureau
The Freedmen's Bureau was a federal agency established in 1865. 
It was established to help and protect emancipated slaves (freedmen) during their transition from a life of slavery to a life of freedom.
The Freedmen’s Bureau helped former slaves gain land, get jobs, and build schools.

6. Freed the slaves everywhere in the United States.
13th Amendment
Freed the slaves everywhere in the United States.

7. 14th Amendment
Guaranteed citizenship to all African-Americans.

8. 15th Amendment
Declared that all male citizens could vote and would not be denied because of race.

9. segregation = separation freedman = former slave who is now free
Jim Crow Laws
Jim Crow Laws were laws that promoted segregation in the South between black people and white people.
segregation = separation
These laws were meant to take away the rights and freedoms of the freedmen.
freedman = former slave who is now free