Reconstruction

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Reconstruction
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Reconstruction

• Reconstruction
• Period of rebuilding the South
• 2 types of Reconstruction
• (1) Presidential (Lincoln)
• (2) Congressional/Radical

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Big Brother

• Analogy
• Carthaginian Peace (Punic Wars) vs. forgiveness

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T-chart (pg. 133)
Presidential Reconstruction Congressional Reconstruction

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Presidential Reconstruction

• Lincolns peace
• Forgiveness (pledge loyalty)
• 10 plan (when 10 of voters took oath, organize
  a new state govt banning slaver then readmit)
• Lincoln vetoed Wade-Davis Bill
• Lincoln assassinated by John Wilkes Booth gt
  Andrew Johnson Pres.
• Johnson continues gt pardons / amnesty
  (forgiveness)

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Congressional/Radical Reconstruction

• Carthaginian Peace
• Led by Radical Republicans
• Wade-Davis Bill
• Passes Reconstruction Acts (14th Amendment)
  military districts

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Freedmans Bureau

• What was the Freedmans Bureau? (pg. 134)
• What did it do?
• How did Johnson react?

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Southern Reaction

• What are Black Codes (pg. 133)
• Ku Klux Klan (Que Klux Klan)
• Initially a social gathering for ex-Confederates
  to complain
• Nathaniel Bedford Forrest led
• Que circle (brotherhood)
• Begin lynching mob murders
• Targeted Blacks, Jews Catholics

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Amendments

• Explain the significance of the following
• 13th Amendment (pg. 130)
• 14th Amendment (pg. 134)
• 15th Amendment (pg. 135)

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Elsewhere in the South

• With a partner, define these terms
• Scalawags (pg. 135)
• Carpetbaggers (135)

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Economic Changes

• With the same partner, define these terms
• Sharecropping (pg. 136)
• Tenant Farming (pg. 136)