1. RECONSTRUCTION Period during which the U.S. began to rebuild after the Civil War.

2. POLITICAL Lincoln’s Ten Percent Plan: wanted to be lenient on the South – proposed that after 10% of a State’s 1860 voting lists took an oath of allegiance to the Union that State could re-enter the Union. Lincoln believed secession was illegal and that the states had never really left the Union. He believed Reconstruction was a matter of quickly restoring state govts

3. Political continued… Lincoln also believed that once war was over the federal govt should not punish the South but act “with malice towards none, with charity for all…to bind up the nation’s wounds…” The assassination of Lincoln enable Radical Republicans to influence Reconstruction in a more punitive manner.

4. Lincoln’s Assassination April 14, 1865- Pres. Lincoln is assassinated in Fords theatre during a play. Assassin of Lincoln is John Wilkes Booth (a famous actor). He escapes. Booth is cornered in a VA. barn 12 days later and is shot and killed.

5. Lincoln’s Assassination 4 other conspirators are tried and hanged including the first woman executed by Federal Government

6. Political continued….. The states that seceded were not allowed back into the Union immediately, but were put under military occupation. Radical Republicans also believed in aggressively guaranteeing voting/civil rights to African Americans. They clashed with President Andrew Johnson over the issue of civil rights for freed slaves.

7. Impeachment of President Andrew Johnson *Radical Republicans try to stop Andrew Johnson’s political goals *He was impeached by Congress based on a law that would later be repealed

8. Political still…….. Three “Civil War Amendments” added to Constitution 13 th Amendment: Slavery was abolished permanently in the United States 14 th Amendment: States were prohibited from denying equal rights under the law to any American 15 th Amendment: Voting rights were guaranteed regardless of “race, color, or previous condition of servitude (former slaves)

9. Political still…… Reconstruction ended following the close Election of 1876. In return for support in the electoral college vote from Southern Democrats, the Republicans agreed to end the military occupation of the South……known as the Compromise of 1877

10. SOCIAL FREEDMAN’S BUREAU: distributed food/clothing to former slaves and poor whites – set up hospitals and schools Black codes –restricted Af-Amer lives, they could not carry weapons, serve on juries, marry whites, etc…… Tenant Farming/sharecropping: cycle of poverty that kept large landowners in power

11. Social continued…. Many former slaves move to cities or out West to look for work – EXODUSTERS They set up schools/churches/join politics Scalawags- white Southerners that joined the Republican party for self gain Carpetbaggers-name for Northerners that moved South to exploit the South’s less fortunate

12. Social/Economic Ku Klux Klan- (Tenn 1866) spread rapidly thru the South, violent terrorist group whose goal was to restore white supremacy Panic of 1873 – series of bank failures and bankruptcies, 5 year economic depression South: farms, cities, railways laid destroyed – would be poorest part of country for decades North/Midwest – emerge as strong industrial economies Transcontinental Railroad – intensified movement westward after the war

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16. Aftermath of war African Americans Some able to join army Cycle of poverty continues (cities and farms) Many move west Education becomes available Common Soldiers Many injuries due to hand to hand combat Wartime diaries and letters Return to destroyed homes, poverty and disabilities

17. Women after the war Managed homes w/ few resources Poverty and Hunger *took new jobs as nurses, farmers, and in factories

18. Ulysses S. Grant 1.Former Union Commander becomes the 18 th President 2.Opposed punishing the South 3.Supported rights for freedman

19. Robert E. Lee 1.Urged Southerners to reconcile and rejoin U.S. 2.President of Washington University (now W&L U) 3.Supported Education

20. Frederick Douglass 1.Supported full equality for African Americans 2.Supported passage of 14 th and 15 th Amendments 3.Rights of Freedmen

21. Review Lincoln’s view of Reconstruction? Lincoln Assassination? Radical Republicans wanted to _______ the South. President Andrew Johnson? 3 Civil War Amendments? Compromise of 1877 ended _________ ____________ in the South. North? South? West?

22. Review continued… African Americans? Soldiers? Women? Ullyses S. Grant? Robert E. Lee? Frederick Douglass?