1. Problems of Peace
Reconstruction

2. South in 1865
Barren
Anarchy
Disease
Hunger
Union there

3. Goals of Reconstruction
Democrats
Self-reconstruction

4. Goals 2 (Republicans) Repudiation of secession
Guarantee of freedom and civil liberties for ex-slaves
Political power for southern unionists
Political dq for the South

5. Andrew Johnson
Republican
Would move towards Democrat ideals

6. Amnesty
States who took oath of allegiance offered amnesty

7. Amnesty Excluded Civil and Diplomatic officials Army above col.
Navy: Lt.
Resigned congressmen
Federal judges
Military officers on rebel side

8. Appointed Governors Appointed 7 all together N.C. first
Unionists turned Confederates

9. Abolition of Slavery Universal and Equal Suffrage Association
Voting rights

10. Johnson’s Take Property value of at least $250
Blacks had to be literate
1 of 9 were literate

11. Wade Hampton Confederate
Would support president as long as states rights ok

12. Land
Land made freedom real
6/21/1866
Southern Homestead Act

13. Compulsion
“Negro only works under compulsion”
Free Labor

14. Vagrancy S.C.: White employers called masters Black workers= servants
Black Code
MS: No job, arrested for vagrancy
Were sent to work

15. Trumbull Civil Rights Bill Nullify Dred Scott and black codes
Citizenship

16. Trumbull 2 Own or rent property Contract rights
Witness and court parties

17. Johnson’s Vetoes
Civil Rights Bill
14th Amendment
Absence of the South

18. Radical Wishes Ex-rebels could not vote Confiscation of land
Redistribute that land
Nullify Southern government
Territorial probation
Suffrage vote

19. Impeachment
1st ever
2/3 majority senate
Simple majority house

20. Republican Power Lincoln made them unstoppable
Majority in Southern states now

21. Impeachment Accepted Arraigned on 10 charges
He was not convicted and removed
Would continue

22. Law
1866: Milligan vs. U.S.
Military trials of civilians in non-war zone
Ex Parte McCradle
Denied Habeas Corpus
1868

23. Grant Elected 1868 Brodhead letter
Grant wants success of reconstruction

24. Nathan Bedford Forrest
Former Confederate
Founder of Klu Klux Klan
Pulaski, TN

25. Klan Plan Whipped teachers at Freedmen schools Punished freedmen
Whipped freedmen who acted insolent towards white

26. Klan and Election Political murders
22 GA counties with 9,300 registered blacks

27. Klan and Election 2 Grant got 87 votes out of a possible 9,300
.009 percent