1. Warm-Up – Use your laptops to find the answers
Warm-Up – Use your laptops to find the answers. If you don’t have one, share with the person next to you. 10 minutes
1. What does “Reconstruction” mean?
2. Who shot Abraham Lincoln?
3. Which president was impeached during Reconstruction?
4. What are the 3 “Reconstruction Era” Amendments? (the # AND the law)
5. Which event officially ended Reconstruction?

2. The Civil War and Reconstruction

3. PRESERVE THE UNION!!! Abraham Lincoln First ever Republican president
Emancipation Proclamation
Freed all slaves in the
CONFEDERACY
Fought the Civil War to
PRESERVE THE UNION!!!

4. Reconstruction Rebuilding the South after the Civil War
Congress, the President, and the Vice President disagreed about how to handle it!
Lincoln
Radical Republicans
Johnson

5. Basic Requirements Oath of loyalty to the US
Confederate Army officers banned from public office
Abolition of slavery
Increased civil rights for blacks
INCREASED POWER FOR THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT

6. Lincoln Johnson Radical Republicans Was easiest on the South
Focused on reuniting the country quickly
Middle-of-the-road plan
Also wanted to reunite the US quickly
Harshest plan to the South
Wanted to punish the South
Used Reconstruction to force social change in the South

7. Lincoln is Assassinated
Lincoln shot in the head by John Wilkes Booth
VP Andrew Johnson becomes President

8. Johnson vs. Radical Republicans
Issue of Reconstruction caused bitterness between the two
Ultimately led to Johnson’s impeachment
Thaddeus Stevens
Violation of Tenure of Office Act

9. Amendments Passed… 13th Amendment 14th Amendment 15th Amendment
Abolishes slavery
14th Amendment
Makes blacks US citizens
15th Amendment
Gives black males the right to vote

10. RACISM IN THE SOUTH

11. The Ku Klux Klan

12. Lynching

13. Sharecropping and Tenant Farming

14. Restrictions on Voting Rights
Grandfather Clause
Allowed to vote if one of your ancestors was registered
Literacy Test
Extremely hard tests that most blacks could not pass
Poll Tax
A tax to vote; most blacks couldn’t pay it
Terrorism and Intimidation
KKK, lynching, arson, etc.

15. FIGHTING RACISM IN THE SOUTH

16. Freedman’s Bureau
“40 Acres and a Mule” - took land from white plantation owners and gave it to freed slaves

17. Compromise of 1877 Republican Rutherford B. Hayes elected president
Federal troops pulled out of the South
Officially ENDS RECONSTRUCTION