1. RECONSTRUCTION PEACEMAKING

2. RECONSTRUCTION- DID RECONSTRUCTION PROGRAMS ASSIST IN THE NATIONS RECOVERY OR HURT THE NATION? Key Issues-  Role of the Freedmen  Conditions for allowing return of Confederate States  Treatment of confederate leaders

3. RECONSTRUCTION Freedom End of slavery Equal Rights Protection as a citizen

4. RECONSTRUCTION Constitutional Amendments 13 th - Abolished slavery 14 th -Freedmen granted Citizenship and Protection of rights 15 th - Voting Rights

5. RECONSTRUCTION Lincoln’s plan- December 1863- 10% of the population have to swear allegiance to the U. S. Johnson’s plan- Disfranchised Confederate military and civil officers. Anyone in the South whose property was worth $20,000 or more could have it confiscated.

6. RECONSTRUCTION Radical Republicans Plan – Passage of Reconstruction Acts Divided South into 5 military districts Abolish slavery 50% of population had to swear allegiance to the United States Ratify the 13 th, 14 th, and 15 th Amendments

7. RECONSTRUCTION- EXODUSTERS The Nicodemus Town Company was incorporated in 1877 by six black and two white Kansans. It was the oldest of about twenty towns established predominately for blacks in the West. After the Civil War there was a general exodus of blacks from the South. These migrants became known as “EXODUSTERS" and the migration became known as the "Exoduster" movement. Some freedmen applied to be part of colonization projects to Liberia and locations outside the United States; others were willing to move north and west. Benjamin Singleton led an exodus of African Americans from various points in the South to Kansas.

8. RECONSTRUCTION Radical Reconstruction Black codes- Arrest unemployed freedmen Cannot work except as a field hand or servant Impeachment of President Johnson

9. RECONSTRUCTION Impeachment of President Johnson President Johnson dismissed Secretary of War- Stanton in violation of the Tenure of Office Act. House of Representatives impeached him on 11 charges and the vote went to the Senate for trial. Senate not able to get the 2/3rds vote for impeachment

10. RECONSTRUCTION Carpetbaggers- northerners moving to the south to take opportunities Scalawags – White southern Republicans Black Freedmen Republicans- no previous experience But in power of state legislatures