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Aim: How did Reconstruction impact the South Post-Civil War? Do Now: Write down 3 facts you learned from the video. http://www.history.com/topics/american-civil- war/john-wilkes-booth/videos/the-other-side-of- lincoln-lincolns- assassination?m=528e394da93ae&s=undefined&f =1&free=false HW: Finish worksheet http://www.history.com/topics/american-civil- war/john-wilkes-booth/videos/the-other-side-of- lincoln-lincolns- assassination?m=528e394da93ae&s=undefined&f =1&free=false
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Appomattox, Virginia General Robert E. Lee surrenders to U.S. Grant Civil War is over
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Thirteenth Amendment “Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States” Slavery is declared illegal
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Reconstruction Lincoln’s Ten Percent Plan: –Required ten-percent of the voting population in a rebellious state pledge an oath of loyalty in order to return to the Union
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Radical Republicans Wade Davis Bill –Congress, not the president, is responsible for reconstruction. –A majority, NOT 10 percent, should swear an oath of allegiance in order to rejoin the Union
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Lincoln’s Assassination Assassinated by John Wilkes Booth, a southern sympathizer, five days after Confederates surrender
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President Johnson Carries out Reconstruction Democrat Favors harsh punishment of Confederacy Considered traitor by the South Considered friend of the Radical Republicans
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Freedmen’s Bureau: Government agency which provides assistance to former slaves and poor whites in the South by distributing clothing, food medical aid, access to hospitals, and education
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Black Codes Discriminatory laws passed in the South that severely restricted African Americans’ lives. Denied them the rights to –testify against whites –serve on juries or in state militias –Vote – start a job without the approval of the previous employer
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