Reconstruction Chapter 12

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ReconstructionChapter 12
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Reconstruction

• 1865 1877

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One Idea - Three Plans

• Lincolns Plan
• Lenient
• Page 376-377
• List Three Points
• What is Pocket Veto?
• Johnsons Plan
• Same Plan
• But had to say an Oath!!!
• Page 377 378
• List Three Points

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Congressional Reconstruction

• Overrides the Veto
• Passes
• Civil Rights Act of 1866 (Two Points p. 379)
• Black Codes
• Freedmans Bureau Acts (Two Points p. 379)
• Food, Clothing, Schools
• Congress Takes Over Reconstruction

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Civil War Amendments

• 13th (p. 368)
• No Slavery nor Involuntary Servitude
• Prison?
• 14th (p.379)
• All persons born in U.S. Citizens
• 15th (p.382)
• No limits on voting by Race, Color or Previous
  Condition of Servitude.
• But Who has the ability to enforce?

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Election of 1868

• 500,000 Southern
• African-Americans voted
• for the victorious
• Ulysses S. Grant.
• Was this Important?
• (p. 382)

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Cause and Effect

• Civil War Ends gt
• Reconstruction Begins
• Johnson Veto gt
• Congress Overrides - Gains Power
• Freedmans Bureau gt
• Former slaves gain Mobility
• Plantations Disappear gt
• Sharecropping Begins
• Weak Presidential Leadership gt
• Democrats / Confederates regain power

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Southern Politics

• Scalawags? (p. 385)
• Southern Republicans
• Carpetbaggers? (p. 385)
• True or not?
• Northern Politicians moving South to win elected
  office.

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Cycle of Poverty

• 40 Acres and a Mule (p. 390)
• Sharecropping (p. 391)
• Tenant Farming (p. 391)
• How did these two Systems lead to a cycle of
  poverty?

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Reconstruction Results

• Cotton King? (p. 392)
• Increased Production Worldwide
• Diversification of South?
• Tobacco
• Industry
• NOT ENOUGH
• Loss of Political and Economic power leads to
  Violence?

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End Of Reconstruction

• Election of 1876
• Who won? (p. 399)
• Compromise of 1877
• North/ Republicans Get?
• Presidency
• South/ Democrats Get?
• Home Rule
• Removal of Federal Troops