Reconstruction
Published on Sep 08, 2017
Big ideas and events of Reconstruction
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RECONSTRUCTION
1865 - 1877
For almost 5 years,
the Civil War raged...
RAPIDLY INDUSTRALIZED
The North
FACTORIES
PRODUCED WEAPONS & AMMUNITION
FARMS
grew GRAINS, feeding UNION SOLDIERS & CIVILIANS
45,000 MILES OF TELEGRAPH WIRE
transmitted Union messages to the FRONT LINES
20,000 MILES OF RAILROADS
connected UNION SOLDIERS & SUPPLIES
Compared to only 9,000 MILES OF RAILROADS connecting CONFEDERATE soldiers & supplies
4,000 MILES OF TELEGRAPH WIRE transmitting Confederate messages
Photo by Luciano Ribas
Farms growing COTTON... a crop that contributed LITTLE to the war effort
Photo by Trisha Downing
Factories in the South were FEW
DISADVANTAGE
The AGRICULTURAL South was at a...
FREED THE SLAVES
In 1863, Lincoln's EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION...
SURRENDERED
On April 9, 1865 the Confederate Army...
OVER
The Civil War was officially...
1,000,000
Americans were killed in the war
continued to FLOURISH...
While cities in the NORTH
was DESTROYED
The South
ASSASSINATED
On April 14, 1865, Lincoln was...
Needed HELP
4 MILLION former slaves
DECISIONS HAD TO BE MADE...
Northern Republicans
wanted to PUNISH the South
FIRST SLAVERY was officially ABOLISHED
THEN Freedmen became CITIZENS
Finally the FREEDMEN got the VOTE
THE FREEDMEN'S BUREAU
SUPPLIED & EDUCATED THE FORMER SLAVES
Southerners
wanted to STOP the changes
BLACK CODES
kept the former slaves legally enslaved
Sharecropping
forced African Americans back into the fields
APPRENTICESHIP LAWS
put African American children to work
VAGRANCY LAWS
targeted unemployed African Americans
COMMERCIAL LAWS
excluded African Americans
White Supremacist Groups
used VIOLENCE to get what they wanted
The Ku Klux Klan
intimidated African Americans
Achievements for the Freedmen
were SHORT-LIVED
The Compromise of 1877
resulted in the removal of US troops from the South...
