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Reconstruction

Reconstruction. A Crash Course. Abraham Lincoln .

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Reconstruction

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  1. Reconstruction A Crash Course

  2. Abraham Lincoln “With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation’s wounds, to care for him who shall have borne the battle and for his widow and orphan, to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace” (Second Inaugural Address, 1865)

  3. Lincoln’s Assassination • Lincoln was assassinated on April 14, 1865 while attending a play at Ford’s Theatre in Washington, DC • John Wilkes Booth – last effort to save the Confederacy • Sic SemperTyrannis! (Thus Always with Tyrants OR Down with Tyrants) • Andrew Johnson (Lincoln’s VP) stepped into the Presidency and was tasked with starting the Reconstruction process.

  4. America After the War • After the war, the South was literally in ruins • Economy was devastated • Sherman’s March had left a path of destruction • With many people dead from the fighting, putting the country back together was going to be a challenge.

  5. Presidential Reconstruction

  6. Congressional Reconstruction

  7. The Problems with Johnson • Vetoes: • Civil Rights Act of 1866 • 14th Amendment • Military Reconstruction Act • Congress passed two acts to reduce Johnson’s power to interfere with Congressional Reconstruction • Command of the Army Act • limited Johnson’s power over the Army • Tenure of Office Act • Prevented Johnson from firing certain federal officials without the Senate’s consent • Impeachment • House tried to have Johnson removed from office • Needed two – thirds vote in the Senate – failed to convict.

  8. Southern Reconstruction

  9. End of Reconstruction • Whites in the South resented Reconstruction governments • White Terrorism • Ku Klux Klan

  10. End of Reconstruction: Legislation • The Enforcement Acts (1870 and 1871) • Designed to combat terrorism against blacks • Made it illegal to prevent people from voting using bribery, force, or scare tactics • The Amnesty Act of 1872 • Allowed most former Confederates to vote again • Sign of changing attitudes in Congress towards the South

  11. Reconstruction Reversed • The “New South” • 1880 – 1900: Southern Industry grew rapidly • Education • Voting Rights • Poll taxes • Literacy tests • Jim Crow Laws • Segregation of blacks and whites • Plessy vs. Ferguson • Separate but Equal

  12. Responding to Segregation • African Americans responded to segregation/ discrimination in many ways: • Protesting • Migration of Blacks • Left the south • Back to Africa – Liberia (nation founded by freed slaves in W. Africa) • Most chose to stay in America – “we are not Africans now, but colored Americans” • North – competed for jobs with recent immigrants (Irish) • West – worked as cowboys and Indian fighters • Exodus of 1879 – organized migration of thousands of black families • Benjamin “Pap” Singleton and Henry Adams

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