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RECONSTUCTION
WHAT PROBLEMS EXIST NOW THAT THE CIVIL WAR IS OVER?
GROUP WORK DIRECTIONS
Read the description of your phase as a group.For each event listed in your phase, use
• American Nation glossary to define the event. • History Alive to further explain the event – What was
it? What did it do? How did it impact (positively or negatively) former slaves?
• If the box is shaded in, you can skip that box.
PRESIDENTIAL RECONSTRUCTION
1. 13th Amendment
• Abolished slavery• States needed to ratify it to
rejoin the Union2. Freedmen’s Bureau
• Provided food and medical care
• Helped freedmen bargain for wages and good working conditions
• distributed 40 acre plots of land• Education – build public schools
3. Black Codes • Limited rights of freedmen – couldn’t vote or serve on juries
• Required freedmen to work or they could be arrested or hired out
• Segregation of public places to keep freedmen at the bottom of the social order
CONGRESSIONAL RECONSTRUCTION
4. Civil Rights Act of 1866
• Struck at the black codes by declaring freedmen to be full citizens with the same rights as whites
5. 14th Amendment
• Declared former slaves to be citizens with full rights
• Cannot be treated as less than equal6. Military Reconstruction Act
• Divided the south into 5 military districts, each governed by a general backed by troops
• New state governments were to be formed by southerners loyal to the United States
7. Sharecropping • Former slaves wanted land to farm; former owners needed workers
• Few freedmen were ever able to pay back any money they owed, leading to a life of debt & poverty
SOUTHERN RECONSTRUCTION
8. 15th Amendment
• Forbids the right to vote based on race
• Most abolitionists felt their work was done
9. New state constitutions/new state governments
• New state constitutions were very progressive and advanced
• Right to vote was granted to all males• Ended imprisonment for debt• Called for the establishment of public
schools• Taxes were raised (increased 400%!) to
fix war damages• Schools and hospitals were built.
10. African American Officeholders
• 1/5 of new officeholders were African American
END OF RECONSTRUCTION11. Ku Klux Klan
• Secret societies to drive African Americans out of political life
• Dressed in long hooded robes armed with guns and swords
• Started by threatening office holders, led to beating, tarring and feathering and murder
12. Enforcement Acts
• Three laws to combat terrorism against African Americans
• Made it illegal to prevent another person from voting by bribery, force or scare tactics
13. Amnesty Act of 1872
• Allowed most former Confederates to vote
• Democrats began to regain control in the South
14. Election of 1876/Compromise of 1877
• A Republican controlled Congress gave 20 disputed electoral votes to Hayes, the Republican presidential candidate
• In return, Hayes agreed to withdraw federal troops from the South
RECONSTRUCTION REVERSED15. Poll Tax • A luxury many black southerners
couldn’t afford16. Literacy Tests
• Tests were rigged to fail African Americans, regardless of education
• Grandfather Clause – taxes and tests did not apply to any man whose father or grandfather could on on 1/1/1867
17. Jim Crow Laws
• After Democrats returned to office, blacks and whites were segregated in public life
18. Plessy v. Ferguson
• Homer Plessy was arrested for not obeying Jim Crow laws, arguing the violated “equal protection of laws”
• Court ruled that separate facilities were okay as long as they were equal
• More Jim Crow laws were passed: separate schools, parks, theaters
• African American facilities inferior to those of whites