RECONSTRUCTION Unit 7

Opposing PlansUnit 1

Hanging of former Confederate commander of Andersonville, GA prison camp

Nov., 1865

Richmond, 1865

Richmond 1865

Columbia: SC, 1865

Presidential Reconstruction1. Lincoln’s 10% plan

Pardon and oath—establish a new government

2. Congress’s Wade-Davis BillIronclad OathStrip ex-confeds of rights

3. Johnson’s planRatification, amnesty

December 1865 Johnson announces the Union is restored

Radical Reconstruction Charles Sumner and Thaddeus Stevens Freedmen’s Bureau Reconstruction

Amendments Reconstruction Acts

Military districts, no-ex confeds in gov’t, ratification of 14th, new state constitutions

Tenure of Office Act—Impeachment of Johnson

Implementing Reconstruction Republicans, Democrats,

Freedmen Carpetbaggers, scalawags

Culture and investment New voters, legislators and

politicsEase Black Codes Civil Rights Act 1875Public works Institutional reformState constitutions

A Reconstucted South

Section 4

What New South? Henry Grady’s vision New economy

Railroads, industrial capitalism Lost Cause and Redeemers

Re-establishment of conservative rule One-party state Reform and

immigration

Now that We are Free Black Codes to Jim Crow Scourge of sharecropping

Crop-lien system Land and labor Votes and Office Freedmen’s

Savings and Trust

Churches, schools, pride

Reconstruction’s Undoing

Section 4

Hard Economic Times Economy “corrected” after the

massive spending during war 1869 Black Friday Crash and Panic of 1873

Northern Pacific Banks closed, credit dried up, unemployment

soaredDepression

Freedmen’s Savings and Trust went bankrupt

Corruption and Scandal Grant’s administration

plagued by ineptitude, cronyism and scandalsPoor appointmentsBlack FridayCredit MobilierWhiskey RingIndian RingShielded friends, relatives

Terror, Violence and Repression Black Codes, Jim Crow and Segregation

Hall v. DeCuir (1878) Amnesty Act (1872) Miss. Plan Rise of KKK Enforcement Acts

SC Habeas Corpus

Election of 1876 19 Electoral votes in

several states disputed Back room negotiations

gave 1 vote advantage to Hayes (R)

“Compromise of 1877” republicans agreed to

remove troops from the South

Reconstruction ends (1865-1877)