1. Reconstruction the action or process of reconstructing or being reconstructed. Andrew Portillo Per 4

2. Background on Reconstruction  Reconstruction in U.S. history, the period (1865-77) followed the American Civil War and during which attempts were made to the redress the inequalities of slavery and it’s political, social, and economic legacy and to solve problems arising from the readmission to the Union of the 11 th states that had succeeded at or before the outbreak of war.  Abraham Lincoln was who gave most ideas for reconstruction and wanted to establish the his ideas and reconstruction.  In 1865 reconstruction had gave 4 million slaves their freedom.

3. Debating Freedom  Had been debated nation wide, the debate started at the beginning of the Civil War in December 1863, Abraham Lincoln liked the thought of Reconstruction & gave ideas towards it.  At first, Abraham Lincoln was against slavery and although he wanted to put an end to slavery he didn’t focus on the situation in abolishing it in the Union War  The slaves pushed the issue more than what he expected. Then when he heard the myth (which was really a myth, no slave was happy being a slave) that stated that slaves were happy being slaves and Lincoln thought absolutely ridiculous so he decided that he should really put and end to it all, he fought for their freedom.

4. Rising Problems  President Abraham Lincoln was assassinated on April 1865.  A new president was elected, President Andrew Johnson he basically went against with Lincoln’s ideas and made his own.  Johnson didn’t like the fact that he freed the slaves so he took every chance to make them miserable but some didn’t see it.  Johnson event the “Black Codes”  The “Black Codes” were laws that required African Americans to sign yearly labor contracts and in other ways sought to limit freedman’s economic options and reestablish plantation discipline.  The Klux Klan (KKK) would reverse the changes wrought by Radical Reconstruction in violent flashback that restored white supremacy in the South

5. Solutions  Slavery was legally 100% done  The 14 th Amendment was established and stated that the African Americans would give them “Equal Protection”  The 15 th Amendment was established at it stated that it gave EVERYONE the right to vote and that their vote would be denied due to color, race, or previous condition of servitude.

6. Reconstruction starts to End. After most problems were solved bigger things happened… Many white people had turned to violence in response to the changes that were made. They formed a gang the Ku Klux Klan and they used violence to “solve” their problems.

7. KKK Violence (Lynching)

8. Powerful Quotation #1 “Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves” -Abraham Lincoln

9. Powerful Quotation #2 “You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today” -Abraham Lincoln

10. Primary Source This picture show Abraham Lincoln with African Americans around him, this picture represent how slaves looked at Abraham Lincoln as a hero due to how he fought for them.