1. Chapter 15 Struggle over Reconstruction Reconstruction in the South
Years of Corruption
A Reconstructed Nation

2. Reconstruction Andrew Johnson Era of Reconstruction 1865-1877
Rebuild the South
Changes in the nation

3. Reconstruction Plans Lincoln: “Ten percent” plan Radical Republicans
Wade-Davis bill
Vetoed

4. Reconstruction Plans Johnson: Modification of Lincoln’s plan
Began while Congress was not in session

5. Reconstruction
Johnson’s unpopularity and stubbornness made it difficult for his plan to proceed

6. Reconstruction Radicals win 2/3 majority in 1866 elections
Tenure of Office Act
Edwin Stanton
Johnson dismissed him

7. Impeachment House impeached Johnson
Senate came within 1 vote of convicting Johnson and removing him from office

8. Amendments
13th Amendment
Prohibited slavery

9. Amendments 14th Amendment Full citizenship to freedmen
Applied to states
Due process of law

10. Amendments 14th Amendment
Prohibited Confederate leaders from holding office

11. Amendments
15th Amendment
Black suffrage

12. Reconstruction Not off to a good start Military Reconstruction Act
Military districts and governors

13. Reconstruction Military Reconstruction Act
Required states to write new constitutions and ratify amendments

14. Reconstruction
Freedmen’s Bureau
Courts
Black codes
Education

15. Reconstruction
Carpetbaggers
Scalawags

16. Reconstruction Many Reconstruction governments were corrupt
Some accomplishments
Disfranchisement

17. Reconstruction Southern reactions Violence Ku Klux Klan
Ku Klux Klan Act

18. Reconstruction Southern reactions Sharecropping
Allowed survival, but did not bring prosperity

19. Reconstruction Southern reactions Redemption Redeemers Wade Hampton
Ben Tillman

20. Grant Elected as the Republican candidate in 1868 “Let us have peace”
Weak president

21. Grant Political corruption Grantism Crédit Mobilier Fisk & Gould
Whiskey Ring

22. Tammany Hall New York City William “Boss” Tweed Enormous corruption
Thomas Nast

23. Grant Liberal Republicans opposed Grant’s reelection Horace Greeley
Grant won handily in 1872

24. Economy Postwar prosperity in the North Panic of ‘73 6-year depression
“Greenbacks”

25. 1876 Republicans nominated Rutherford B. Hayes Reputation for honesty
Civil War general
Governor of Ohio

26. 1876 Democrats nominated Samuel J. Tilden
Reputation from breaking up the “Tweed ring”

27. 1876 “Waving the bloody shirt” Disputed results FL, LA, SC
Commission of 15 men

28. 1876 Hayes awarded the 19 contested electoral votes
There had been voting corruption on both sides

29. 1876 Compromise of 1877 Hayes takes office
Federal troops removed from South

30. Results
Slaves freed
South became solidly Democratic
“The Solid South”

31. Results Powers of federal government expanded dramatically
“The United States is...”