1. The Union Takes Over

2. Topics Reconstruction Elections of 1868 and 1872 Election of 1876

3. Reconstruction Presidential Congressional

4. Presidential Reconstruction Lincoln’s Plan for Reconstruction Effect of Lincoln’s Assassination Johnson’s failure to pick up the mantle

5. Lincoln’s Plan for Reconstruction 1863-Proclamation of Amnesty and Reconstruction “The Confederate States never left the Union” Wanted the state governments back in operation before September

6. Effect of Lincoln’s Assassination North South

7. Effect of Lincoln’s Assassination-North April 11, 1865 Ford’s Theatre, Washington, DC John Wilkes Booth Despair

8. Ford’s Theatre-1866

9. Today

10. John Wilkes Booth- 1860

11. Effect of Lincoln’s Assassination-South Left open the chance that Lincoln’s plan would not happen

12. Andrew Johnson –17 th president

13. Johnson’s failure to pick up the mantle Agreed with Lincoln that the states never left the Union, so reconstruction is unnecessary

14. Johnson’s failure to pick up the mantle May 1865-Proclamation of Amnesty Each state had to ratify the 13 th Amendment to get back in

15. Congressional Reconstruction Radical Republicans Judicial Branch Program for Freed Slaves

16. Radical Republicans Rule Loyalty Oaths Pardons Military Occupation Limits to Presidential Power

17. Loyalty Oaths 1864-Wade-Davis Bill

18. Pardons Congress, without Southern members voted to approve a Joint Committee on Reconstruction

19. Pardons Reconstruction Acts- DO not allow a person to vote unless you can tell that he is fit

20. Military Occupation 1867-Military Reconstruction Act divided the states into military districts

21. Limits to Presidential Power 1867-Command of the Army Act, Tenure of Office Act Impeachment of Johnson

22. He kept pardoning former Confederates Deliberatively violated the Tenure of Office Act

23. Impeachment of Johnson “Tried to obstruct the will of Congress” 1868-Impeached Stepped back from the process

24. Judicial Congress removed the power of the court to review cases under the Reconstruction Acts The Court ruled on the idea of an “indestrucable Union”

25. Program for freed slaves Constitutional Amendments Creation of the Freedman’s Bureau “It is now Our Country”

26. Constitutional Amendments 1866-Civil Rights Act

27. Creation of the Freedman’s Bureau Johnson vetoed an act to extend the life of the Bureau, saying that it was created for wartime and war is over Congress overrode the veto

28. White Southerners’ Response to Reconstruction Dislike for “Carpetbaggers” and “Scalawags” Resentment Strong dislike for anything “Yankee” Birth of the KKK The “Solid South”

29. Dislike for “Carpetbaggers” and “Scalawags” Carpetbaggers – Slang for Northerners who came south Scalawags – Slang for Southerners who opposed secession

31. Resentment Southerners hated both groups

32. Birth of the KKK 1866-Pulaski, Tennessee

35. The “Solid South”

36. Elections 1868 1872 1876

37. 1868 and 1872 Elections Republicans Triumphant Corruption in Government

38. Republicans Triumphant Election of a military hero Split within the party

40. Election of a military hero Grant wins both, although his political leanings were unknown

41. Split within the party Republicans Liberal republicans

42. Corruption in Government Credit mobilier Whiskey Ring Local Level

43. Credit mobilier Construction company that embezzled a ton of money Cabinet and Congress members benefitted

44. Whiskey Ring Grant’s Private Secretary involved

45. Local Level Tammany Hall

46. The Compromise of 1876-1877 1877- Electoral Commission set up Hayes elected President if he removed the last troops from the South

47. Samuel J. Tilden

48. Hayes- Elected 1877