Chapter 15
Published on Jul 11, 2017
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Chapter 15
Reconstruction
Chapter 15.1
An Incompetent Heir
Chapter 15.2
Reconstruction
Chapter 15.3
Southern Continuities
Chapter 15.4
Reconstruction Fizzles
Reconstruction Plans of Lincoln and Johnson
Non-Punitive
Proclamation of Amnesty and Reconstruction (1863)
Amnesty - Oath of Loyalty - No Slavery
Wade-Davis Bill (1864)
Out For Blood - 50%
Freedmen's Bureau
Early Welfare Agency - Confederate Land For Slaves - Women & Education
Lincoln's Last Speech
Encourages Peace
Johnson and Reconstruction
A Political Strategy Made President - White Supremacist
Johnson's Reconstruction Policy
Pardons 7,000 Ex-Confederates
Southern Governments of 1865
Readmitted With Bare Minimum - Confederate Congressman - No Black Voting
Black Codes
Blacks Cannot Rent or Buy Land - "Apprentices" - Cannot Testify Against Whites
Johnson's Vetoes
Prevents Support to Freedman's Bureau
Congressional Reconstruction
Harsher on Southern Whites - More Protective of Blacks
Radical Republicans
Economic Moderates - Moral Radicals
Civil Rights Act of 1866
Override Vetoes - All Blacks are Citizens
Fourteenth Amendment
All Blacks Are Citizens - Due Process
The Election of 1866
Democrats Are The Southern Party
- Swing Around the Circle
Reconstruction Acts of 1867
South Under Military Occupation - Ratification of 14th Amendment
Impeachment of Andrew Johnson
Tenure of Office - One Vote Shy
The Election of 1868
Ulysses S. Grant
Fifteenth Amendment
Right To Vote For Citizens
Civil Rights Act of 1875
Equal Accomodations
Reconstruction in the South
Military Occupation Removed
Composition of the Reconstruction Governments
All White Men
"Scalawags" and "Carpetbaggers"
Southern Democrats Hated Republican Northerners
African American Legislators
Some Notable Exceptions
Evaluating the Republican Record
Accomplishments - Failures
African Americans Adjusting to Freedom
Radical Change - Minimal Chnage
Building Black Communities
Freedom - Churches - Migration - Education
Sharecropping
Slavery Under A New Name
The North During Reconstruction
Industrial Revolution
Greed and Corruption
Spoils System - Business and Government - Boss Tweed
The Election of 1872
Grant Reelected
The Panic of 1873
Overspeculation - Bankruptcy
The End of Reconstruction
Third Round - Redeemers
White Supremacy and the Ku Klux Klan
Paramilitary Arm of Democratic Party - Terrorize Blacks
The Election of 1876
Rutherford B Hayes
The Compromise of 1877
End of Reconstruction - Southern Transcontinental Railroad
