Chapter 18: Reconstruction Section 1: Rebuilding the Union

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Chapter 18 ReconstructionSection 1
Rebuilding the Union
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Right after the Civil War is over the job of
rebuilding the country begins

• This time period is called Reconstruction (3)
  (rebuilding)

(Both physical and political reconstruction)
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One of the groups which helped the most was a
government group called The Freedmen's Bureau
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• Set up schools and hospitals for African
  Americans.
• Distributed clothes, food, and fuel throughout
  the South

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Lincoln had a plan to try and unite the North and
South, but when he was assassinated, the job went
to Andrew Johnson (6)

• Johnson was even a former slaveholder.
• He was more stubborn and not as well respected as
  Lincoln.
• But in his plan he did offer amnesty (7/8) to
  white Southerners if hey would promise to be
  loyal to the United States.
• (An official pardon or freedom)

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A lot of people in the South just didnt deal
well with

• Having to again be told what to do by Northern
  States.
• They felt like these Northern states might try
  and overpower and destroy the South when they got
  back together.

• Having to accept African Americans as free.
• Some even passed
• black codes (16).
• These were laws that limited the rights of
  ex-slaves (like anyone without written proof of
  work could be put to work on a plantation, or
  they were forbidden to meet in groups or carry
  guns).

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There were some groups who werent thought too
well of after the Civil War. Two of those are

• Scalawags
• was just another name for poor white farmers
  who were seen as lowlifes, scoundrels, rats, and
  those kinds of people.

• Carpetbaggers (29)
• Were White Northerners who rushed to the South
  after the war and tried to get rich or get
  political power

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Congress did try and pass a bill promoting civil
rights (15/19)

• These are rights all people should have -
  regardless of race, color or creed
• And President Jonson vetoed it.
• It did pass when it went back to congress (2/3
  vote)

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And, Congress did pass the 14th Amendment

• All people born in the United States are citizens
  and have the same rights.
• A delegate is someone whos named a
  representative (28)

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But there were some control issues between
President Johnson and Congress

• President Johnson fired his Secretary of War.
• He wasnt supposed to be able to do that without
  the approval of Congress.
• Congress decided to impeach (36/38) him.
• Means to accuse of wrongdoing not convict (it
  means theres going to be an investigation)

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(Only one other president has ever been impeached)
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