Chapter 22 The Ordeal of Reconstruction

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Chapter 22 The Ordeal of Reconstruction Four
big questions 1. How to physically rebuild the
South? 2. What would happen to liberated
blacks? 3. How would Southern states be
reintegrated? 4. Who would direct the process of
Reconstruction? -South economically devastated
cotton crops took until 1870 to reach pre-war
levels of productivity -Emancipation uneven
(depended on where the Union army was) -mass
exodus to Kansas created the term
Exodusters -the church became the focus of the
black community -Freedmens Bureau designed as
primitive welfare agency
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The Bureau had its greatest success in
education Andrew Johnson self-taught (reading)
wife-taught (math) Johnson a champion of poor
whites (hated rich planter class) Johnson a true
outsider out of place in the North D
party Lincoln proposed 10 Plan Wade-Davis Bill
wanted 50 Congress claimed the South had
committed state suicide and its territory was,
therefore, conquered provinces New southern
states instituted Black Codes Republican
Congress locked out Southern legislators rightly
feared increased Southern power (blacks fully
counted now) Congress backed Civil Rights and
14th Amendment Johnson did not Johnsons horrid
speech tour helped Republicans win 2/3
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Reconstruction Act sought 5 military districts in
South Congress wanted blacks to have the vote,
but feared Southern legislators would stop it
used 15th Amendment to get it Scalawags (S) and
Carpetbaggers (N) helped rebuild the South KKK
appears 1866 Force Act addresses it, but too
late Congress set a trap for Johnson that led to
impeachment (Stanton) Johnson hung onto
Presidency by 1 vote
History viewed Reconstruction
as a disgrace a result of a tragic
unnecessary war noble radical attempt to reshape