Warm Up

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Warm Up

• Grab Sheet up front and read
• Prep fo notes fo sho.

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Grant And Reconstruction
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Who is Andrew Johnson?

• Senator from Tennessee who did not secede
• Lincoln picked Johnson to balance ticket and to
  favor southern border states
• Would become 17th President of United States

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The Death of Presidential Reconstruction

• Congress goes on Summer break
• Johnson begins to give to many concessions to
  Southerners
• Angers Radical Republicans

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The Johnson Impeachment

• Johnson impeached
• 1st President impeached
• Charges Politically Motivated
• Begins Congressional (Radical) Reconstruction

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Johnson Impeachment

• Radical Republicans had the votes to Impeach
  President
• Impeachment charges drawn up in the House
• Trial in the Senate

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Election of 1868

• Johnson abandoned
• Republicans nominate Grant
• Grant wins 214/294

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1868 Election Results
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Military Reconstruction

• Some Southerners still defiant
• Federal Troops Occupy the South

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Readmission to the Union

• The Reconstruction Acts (4)
• Creation of five military districts in the
  seceded states (not including Tennessee, which
  had ratified the 14th Amendment and was
  readmitted to the Union)
• Required congressional approval for new state
  constitutions (which were required for
  Confederate states to rejoin the Union)
• Former Confederate states gave voting rights to
  all men.
• All states must ratify the 14th Amendment.

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The Johnson and Grant Movie

• Write down 4 things bout both.

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Warm Up

• Take out Reconstruction Packet from Yesterday

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President Grant

• Movie

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Amnesty Act

• 1872
• Pardoned most former Confederates
• All but 500 of top leaders

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15th Amendment

• Cannot deny vote based upon race
• Believed power of vote would allow African
  Americans to protect themselves

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Republican Reconstruction

• Republicans gained most of their support from
  African Americans, northern settlers, and white
  supporters

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African Americans in the Government

• 1,500 public offices held
• 16 in House of Reps
• 2 in Senate

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The Redemption Era

• Southern Whites wanted political power back
• Intimidated southern African Americans
• 1870-1877

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Violence in the South

• Ku Klux Klan forms
• Intimidate black voters
• Grant will go to war against clan and nearly
  destroy

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Rise of the Southern Democrat

• Intimidation
• Southern Democrat comes to power
• Scandals in the Administration
• Further Rise to power

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Restricting Voting Rights

• 1870s Rise of Segregation
• States found ways to curb voting rights
• Literacy tests
• Poll taxes

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The New South

• Southerners recognize importance of industry
• Out Yankee the Yankees
• Steel, tobacco, cotton, lumber
• Textile Mills, Steel mills