1. Results of the Civil War and Reconstruction (1865-1877)
Picking up the Pieces
Results of the Civil War and Reconstruction ( )

2. Unit Objectives To learn the impacts of the Civil War
To learn the differing plans for Reconstruction and which plan was chosen
To identify key figures of the Reconstruction era and the impact they had
To learn how Reconstruction impacted the former slaves, for better and worse
To learn the similarities and differences between black codes and Jim Crow laws
To learn about the white response to Reconstruction

3. Reconstruction
What was it?

4. Reconstruction (ID)
ERA OF REUNIFYING AND REBUILDING THE NATION AFTER CIVIL WAR

5. What was the main question after the war?

6. Main question after the war?
TO PUNISH THE SOUTH OR FORGIVE AND MOVE ON (HOW TO BRING THE NATION BACK TOGETHER)?
Which would you choose?

7. Wade-Davis Plan (ID) Who supported it? Radical Republicans
Thaddeus Stevens
What was the plan?
Radical Republican plan to treat the South
like conquered territory
The Radicals wanted to rule the South in military districts until a majority of state officials could take an oath of loyalty to the Union and be able to swear they had never participated in the Confederacy in any way (political or military)
What impact would the plan have had on the South?

8. Potential impact of the plan:
IT WOULD HAVE KEPT THE SOUTH POLITICALLY POWERLESS FOR AT LEAST A GENERATION

9. Lincoln’s Plan Lincoln vetoed the plan and offered his own
THE TEN PERCENT PLAN: SOUTHERN STATES
COULD BE READMITTED TO THE UNION IF
10% OF THEIR VOTERS SWORE AN
OATH OF LOYALTY TO THE UNION
AND AGREED TO ABOLISH SLAVERY
(HEAL AND MOVE ON)

10. Lincoln agreed to pardon all Southerners except for high-ranking political and military leaders

11. Which plan do you think was adopted, Lincoln’s or the Radical Republicans’? Lincoln vetoed the Wade-Davis Plan but was then assassinated and no longer around to fight for his plan. Which plan do you think was actually adopted?

12. Which plan was chosen? A COMBINATION OF THE TWO
Lincoln was no longer around to fight for his plan but Andrew Johnson followed many (not all) of his policies
Johnson was a Democrat from Tennessee, a southern state, so he didn’t get along with the Radical Republicans any more than Lincoln had

13. Results of the Civil War and Reconstruction
Union was re-unified
Things that were ended:
--THE CONFEDERACY
--SLAVERY (WHAT TO DO WITH THE FORMER
SLAVES BECAME MAIN ISSUE)

14. Pre-Civil War issues that were finally settled:
--IDEAS OF SECESSION AND NULLIFICATION
--FEDERAL GOVERNMENT FINALLY SEEN AS
SUPREME TO STATES
Lost lives:
--Union lost 360,000, Confederates lost 260,000
--More than half of the deaths were caused by
disease, not battle injuries

15. Southern economy was ruined by the war and there were no jobs for the returning Confederate soldiers
Southern social structure:
ALSO RUINED BY WAR—WHITE SOUTHERNERS NOW EXPECTED TO TREAT FORMER SLAVES AS EQUALS
Should Union pay off Confederate war debt?

16. THE UNION DECIDED NOT TO PAY THE DEBT
The Northern economy did very well during the war due to industrial production
Several medical breakthroughs, especially with amputations
Photography (MATTHEW BRADY):
MADE THE WAR THE FIRST CAPTURED ON FILM

17. New style of warfare:
--New tactics like trenches, observation balloons, use
of the railroads, telegraph
--New Weapons like repeating fire rifles, faster loading
rifles, iron-clad ships, subs, mines
Assassination of Lincoln:
KILLED BY JOHN WILKES BOOTH,
A SOUTHERN SYMPATHYZER WHO
HOPED TO RESTART THE SOUTHERN
CAUSE

18. Civil War Amendments 13th Amendment (1865): 14th Amendment (1868):

19. 13th Amendment (1865):
ENDED SLAVERY
14th Amendment (1868):
15th Amendment (1870):

20. 13th Amendment (1865):
ENDED SLAVERY
14th Amendment (1868):
GRANTED CITIZENSHIP RIGHTS TO FORMER SLAVES
15th Amendment (1870):

21. Civil War Amendments (ID)
13th Amendment (1865):
ENDED SLAVERY
14th Amendment (1868):
GRANTED CITIZENSHIP RIGHTS TO FORMER SLAVES
15th Amendment (1870):
GAVE FORMER SLAVES RIGHT TO VOTE

22. Impeachment of Andrew Johnson
In 1868 the Radical Republicans tried to impeach Johnson because they did not agree on Reconstruction policies—The Radicals thought Johnson was way too easy on the South because he vetoed many Radical plans

23. Black Codes and Jim Crow Laws (ID)
DISCRIMINATION LAWS THAT
PLACED UNFAIR RESTRICTIONS
ON THE FORMER SLAVES
They were allowed by the federal
government because the Southern
states argued they were state laws
protected by the Tenth Amendment

24. Jim Crow Laws:
LAWS THAT PLACED MORE RESTRICTIONS ON
FORMER SLAVES AND INCLUDED
SEGREGATION

25. Rise of the KKK
The racist white response to the gains former slaves made during the early years of Reconstruction—The goal was to restore the white-supremist lifestyle as much as possible

26. Some Southerners openly got in the way of Reconstruction efforts and used the Tenth Amendment to justify their actions (any rights not given to the federal government or denied to the state by the Constitution are reserved to the state)—the federal government and the courts could not do anything about it