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Reconstruction AP Chp. 22
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Problems of Peace Jefferson Davis… Rebel leaders pardoned….
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A Destroyed South
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Southern Attitudes: The “Lost Cause”
1. The war was fought only for Constitutional (state's) rights 2. Slaves were loyal UNTIL Yankees lured them away 3. The South succumbed only because of larger numbers of troops and industrial capacity of the North. 4. Just because the South lost does not mean they weren't right ... someday people will realize it.
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Emancipation Uneven… Status changed as armies marched in & out..
Searched for family… Formed their own churches…
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Exodusters
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Freedman’s Bureau Provided Organized Food Clothing Medical Care
Education Organized Blacks to vote Republican
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Freedman’s Bureau School
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Led by Gen. Oliver Howard
Successes… Failures…
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Andrew Johnson – 17th President
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Reconstruction Plans 10% Plan – Lincoln (1863)…
Wade-Davis Bill (1864)… Andrew Johnson’s Plan (1865)…
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Black Codes
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Sharecropping
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Congressional Concerns About Reconstruction
Alexander Stephens… Republican control… Former slaves… South could have more power than before the war…
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Reconstruction Amendments
13th (1865) 14th (1868) 15th (1870)
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Andrew Johnson Clashes with Congress
Vetoes extension of Freedman’s Bureau Vetoes Civil Rights Bill Urges South to reject 14th Amendment
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Radical Republicans Take Control
Charles Sumner Senate Thaddeus Stevens House
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Military Reconstruction
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Carpetbaggers… Scalawags… Copperheads…
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“Black Reconstruction”
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Ku Klux Klan Pulaski,TN “Invisible Empire” Force Acts 1870
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Johnson Clashes with Congress
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Impeachment - 1868 Tenure of Office Act
Johnson fires Secretary of War Edwin Stanton… House – majority votes to impeach Senate 35 guilty 19 not guilty – one vote less than 2/3 majority
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“Seward’s Folly”
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1868 Grant elected President 1872 Grant wins second term
Scandals, scandals, financial panic 1876 presidential election is disputed…
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“Compromise of 1877” Tilden “cheated” out of Presidency?
Federal Troops leave south… Reconstruction ends
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