1. The Reconstruction Period 1865-1877

2. The Social, Economic, and Political rebuilding of the country after the American Civil War

3. Lee’s surrender to Grant at Appomattox Court House marks the end of the Civil War and the start of Reconstruction

4. Presidential Reconstruction President Abraham Lincoln (Rep.) President Andrew Johnson (Dem.)

5. Moderate Plan for Reconstruction The 10 % Plan Easy re-entry of Southern States, the southern states had not really left the union Proclamation of Amnesty/pardon of most ex-Confederates Slow, measured progress, change Passage of the 13 th Amendment No substantial aid to freedmen

6. The Assassination of President Lincoln April, 14 th, 1865 Ford’s Theatre Washington D.C.

9. Peterson Boarding House Wash. D.C. Pres. Lincoln dies 7:22 a.m. April 15 th, 1865

10. Famous Actor John Wilkes Booth

11. Conspirators

12. Sec. of State William Seward Vice President Andrew Johnson

14. “now he belongs to the ages” Sec. of War Edwin Stanton Lincoln dies at the age of 56 on April, 15, 1865

16. Lincoln’s tomb in Springfield, Illinois

18. Pres. Andrew Johnson vs. Radical Republican Thaddeus Stevens

19. The Impeachment of Pres. Andrew Johnson

20. Johnson is acquitted by a single vote in the Senate

21. Johnson violates the Tenure of Office Act by firing Sec. of War Edwin Stanton

22. Congressional Reconstruction The southern states had left the union and should be considered conquered territories (Wade-Davis Bill) Renewed and expanded Freedmen’s Bureau Reconstruction Act of 1867 Support for the 14 th and 15 th Amendments (in addition to the 13 th ) Tenure of Office Act Force Acts Civil Rights Acts of 1866 and 1875

23. Leading Radical Republicans Benjamin Wade Thaddeus Stevens Charles Sumner

24. Military Reconstruction Acts of 1867

25. The election of Grant 1868

27. Southern Backlash: The Invisible Empire of the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan

28. Black Codes State laws throughout the South with the goal of suppressing the freedmen

30. Sharecropping in the South

33. The Freedmen’s Bureau Bureau of Freedmen, Refugees and Abandoned Lands

35. The “Civil War Amendments” 13 th Amendment (1865) Abolition of Slavery 14 th Amendment (1868) Citizenship for the Freedmen and civil rights 15 th Amendment (1870) Black Suffrage

36. Carpetbaggers Northerners who went South

37. Scalawags: Southerners who supported reconstruction policies, seen by fellow Southerners as traitors to the Southern cause. Various motives on the part of Southerners. Some supported reconstruction policies in order for personal advancement while others genuinely agreed with the intention of the policies.

38. Reelection of Pres. Grant

39. The Grant Scandals Credit Mobilier Whiskey Ring Indian Ring

40. The results of black suffrage

42. Sen. Blanche Bruce (Ms.) Sen. Hiram Revels (Ms.)

43. The disputed Election of 1876

44. Rutherford B. Hayes (Rep) Samuel Tilden (Dem.)

45. The Compromise of 1877 The Republicans (Hayes) gain the White House and the Presidency in exchange for the removal of troops from the South and the end of the military districts With the removal of troops the South returns in large part to its Antebellum status, characterized by racism, discrimination and segregation. The conservative White Democrats took control of politics and state governments as the Reconstruction Period ends.

46. Reasons for the end of Reconstruction Death of Thaddeus Stevens Economic concerns. The “Panic of 1873” Preoccupations with Grant’s scandals Attentions drawn to the Westward movement Reestablishment of Southern Democrats to political power in their states