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Reconstruction

Explore the problems faced by freed slaves and Southern soldiers, as well as the destruction of the Southern economy, in the aftermath of the Civil War. Should Reconstruction aim to reunite the nation or further divide it? Analyze the plans, leadership, and impeachment of Andrew Johnson.

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Reconstruction

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  1. Reconstruction Putting the Nation together again, or ideologically (and physically) segregating us?

  2. How should we handle the South after the Civil War? • What problems do you think free slaves faces? • What about soldiers from the South? • How was the economy of the South destroyed?

  3. Questions What problems do you think freed slaves will face? What about soldiers from the South? How was the economy of the South destroyed? South after the War Problems Fields overgrown Economy destroyed Freedmen do not have money; some lack skills Freed slaves are homeless and jobless Confederacy money worthless No jobs for returning soldiers or freed slaves No free labor without slaves Infrastructure destroyed Reconstruction

  4. Aim: Reconstruction, putting the Nation together again or ideologically and physically dividing us? Vocab Andrew Johnson Radical Republicans Thaddeus Stevens 13th Amendment (Ratification) Confederate debt Essential Questions: • Which plan was mostrealistic? EXPLAIN reasoning. • Was Johnson the right leader? • Was the reasoning behind Johnson’s impeachment party politics or legitimate?

  5. Reconstruction Plans

  6. Presidential Reconstruction and Congressional Reconstruction

  7. Reconstruction, putting the Nation together again or ideologically and physically dividing us? Make a claim and support it with at least three facts and ANALYSIS!!!

  8. Impeachment • Article One of the United States Constitution gives the House of Representatives the sole power of impeachment and the Senate the sole power to try impeachments. Impeachment is only the first of two stages, and conviction requires a two-thirds vote. Impeachment does not necessarily result in removal from office; it is only a legal statement of charges, parallel to an indictment in criminal law. An official who is impeached faces a second legislative vote (whether by the same body or another), which determines conviction, or failure to convict, on the charges embodied by the impeachment.

  9. Impeachable? • Impeachment for violation of Tenure of Office Act – Johnson tried to remove Sec. of War (a Radical Republican in his Cabinet) but Congress said he couldn’t. • He also disobeyed and vetoed legislation of the Radical Republicans. • Tried to save himself at Senate hearing and promised to pass Reconstruction Acts…was not forced to resign by one vote; continued to veto reconstruction acts but the Radical Republican Congress overrode the vetoes and passed the legislation.

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