Reconstruction II

Or, the more things change the more they stay the same…

Radical Reconstruction- Reconstruction Act 1867

• 5 mil. districts• new state const. approved by Cong. work begins in 1868• ratify 14th before readmission (rat. 1868)• Attempting Impeachment??• Tenure of Office Act

– Johnson couldn’t hire/fire w/out Cong. consent– Johnson fire Rad. Rep. Stanton– House votes before drawing up specific charges– Senate falls one vote short of 2/3

• 15th Amendment - vote (couldn’t deny on color or previous condition of servitude)– (passed 1869 & rat. 1870)

5 Military Districts -Governor is a General

Radical Reconstruction- Reconstruction Act 1867

• 5 mil. districts• new state const. approved by Cong. work begins in 1868• ratify 14th before readmission (rat. 1868)• Attempting Impeachment??• Tenure of Office Act

– Johnson couldn’t hire/fire w/out Cong. consent– Johnson fire Rad. Rep. Stanton– House votes before drawing up specific charges– Senate falls one vote short of 2/3

• 15th Amendment - vote (couldn’t deny on color or previous condition of servitude)– (passed 1869 & rat. 1870)

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Election of 1868

Grant as President

• “waving the bloody shirt”

• Corruption

• Force Act 1870 & KKK Act 1871

• Amnesty Act 1872

Election of 1872

Plessy v. Ferguson Jim Crow