RECONSTRUCTION
RECONSTRUCTION PLANS
• LINCOLN’S• 10% PLAN
• MUST ABOLISH SLAVERY
• AMNESTY OFFER
• CONGRESS• MAJORITY • NO RIGHT TO
VOTE OR ELECTED OFFICE TO ANY CONFEDERATE VETERAN
FREEDMEN’S BUREAU
• SET UP - HELP FORMER SLAVES
• FOOD, CLOTHING AND JOBS
• SCHOOLS (EVEN FOR ADULTS)
• MEDICAL HELP
• POOR WHITES COULD BE HELPED AS WELL IN F.B.
LINCOLN IS ASSASSINATED
• April 14, 1865
• Ford’s theatre
• Shot by Confederate sympathizer John Wilkes Booth
• V.P. Andrew Johnson becomes President
Lincoln Assassination
VIOLENCE IN MEMPHIS
CIVIL WAR AMENDMENTS
• 13TH – FREE THE SLAVES
• 14TH - CITIZENSHIP; EQUAL PROTECTION UNDER THE LAW
• 15TH – AFRICAN AMERICAN MALES GET THE RIGHT TO VOTE
REACTION TO AMENDMENT 13
BLACK CODES• LAWS RESTRICTING THE RIGHTS
OF AFRICAN AMERICANS• AFRICAN AMERICANS NOT
ALLOWED TO VOTE, SERVE ON JURIES, OWN GUNS, HOLD CERTAIN JOBS, STAY OUT LATE
REACTION-AMENDMENT14
JIM CROW LAWS
LAWS SEPARATING WHITES FROM AFRICAN AMERICANS IN PUBLIC PLACES
REACTION-AMENDMENT 15
• POLL TAX – MUST PAY TO VOTE
• LITERACY TEST – TEST PROVING THAT YOU COULD READ AND WRITE IN ORDER TO VOTE
• GRANDFATHER CLAUSE – EXCUSES YOU FROM LITERACY TEST IF YOUR GRANFATHER VOTED BEFORE 1867
POLL TAX DELINQUENT LIST
SHARECROPPING
• MANY AFRICAN AMERICANS HAD TO RESORT TO THIS AFTER THE CIVIL WAR.
• THEY WOULD FARM SOMEONE ELSE’S PROPERTY TO KEEP A “SHARE”
• NOT MUCH BETTER THAN SLAVERY