1. THE HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES 1492-1877 LECTURE 10 RECONSTRUCTION

2. THE AFTERMATH, THE LEGACY OF THE WAR 620.000 dead the South is destroyed, 4 million slaves are freed, American nationalism rises aga i n

3. TWO MAJOR ISSUES 1.What to do with seceded states? 2. What to do with former slaves?

4. PRESIDENTIAL RECONSTRUCTION with malice to none charity to all” Seceded states should be let in the Union, after oath to Constitution Congressional Reconstruction Radical Republicans Wade-Davis Bill Punish the South, ironclad oath, state conventions should abolish slavery

5. PRESIDENTIAL RECONSTRUCTION Deny political rights to high ranking officers of the Confederacy State suicide theory: with secession states became conquered territories 1865 April 12 Assassination of Lincoln Andrew Johnson, Tennessee self-educated tailor, Presidential reconstruction wins

6. ASSASSINATION OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN 1865 April 14, Washington D. C. Ford Theater Our American Cousin John Wilkes Booth Sic semper tyrannis American Christ

7. ASSASSINATION

8. LINCOLN’S PILLOW

9. FORMER SLAVES South: Black Codes limiting freedom of former slaves, labor contracts Corporal punishment 13 th amendment 1865 elimination of involuntary servitude 14 th amendment 1868 provision of state and federal citizenship 15 th amendment 1870 right to vote for black males Freedmen’s Bureau

10. POLITICAL ISSUES Greater political participation for blacks Hiram Revels, Blanche K. Bruce Carpetbaggers Northern opportunists Scalawags white Southern Republicans 1866 Ku Klux Klan Pulaski Tennessee

11. CARPETBAGGERS

12. SCALAWAGS

13. POLITICAL ISSUES Reconstruction presidencies: Impeachment of Andrew Johnson, yet not convicted Grant administration tainted by the Credit Mobilier scandal Corruption related to the building of the railroads

14. ELECTION OF 1876 Election of 1876 Two candidates: Rutherford B. Hayes, Samuel Tilden No decision in the electoral college Tilden supports Hayes for the withdrawal of Union troops from the South

15. LEGACY OF THE RECONSTRUCTION An unfinished revolution (Eric Foner) An attempt to provide blacks with private property and political rights Only de facto, de jure after the Civil Rights Movement