1. Waging Peace The Union won the Civil War... What were economic, social and political challenges in reuniting the country? The Union won the Civil War... What were economic, social and political challenges in reuniting the country?

2. Union Army destruction of homes in Jackson, Mississippi

3. Destruction of East Tennessee and Virginia Railroad

4. Dead lined up for burial

5. Ruins of Richmond, VA, former Confederate capital city, 1865

6. Ruins of Navy Yard, Norfolk, VA

7. Veterans Hospital Fredericksburg, VA, 1865

8. Confederate Prison, Andersonville, GA

9. Fugitive African Americans Crossing the Rappahanock River, 1862

10. Former Slaves on the Roads

11. Facts and Figures The South lost “everything” 1/4 of its white male population of military age a third of its livestock, half of its farm machinery, $2.5 billion worth of human property. Factories and railroads Important cities: Atlanta, GA, Charleston, SC, Columbia, SC and Richmond, VA

12. Facts and Figures For former slaves, this was a time of hope and uncertainty 13th amendment made slavery illegal in the United States Over 3 million former slaves were now free They needed education, employment, shelter, housing

13. The assassination of Lincoln Lincoln attended a play a few days after Appomattox Actor and former Confederate soldier John Wilkes Booth was able to sneak into theater and shoot him He lingered overnight, never regained consciousness and died Manhunt for Booth lasted several weeks He was found in a barn and shot in attempt to capture

14. How should Reconstruction be handled? Under what conditions should the South be allowed back into the Union? Who in the former Confederate States of America should be pardoned? What political, economic and social rights should Free Blacks and Freedmen acquire? Who should control the process of Reconstruction— Congress or the President? Should Reconstruction be implemented on a national or state level?

15. Resources http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/reconstr uction/index.htmlhttp://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/reconstr uction/index.html Reconstruction: America’s Second Civil War http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/reconstr uction/ http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/reconstr uction/