A nation split apart must bind itself together.
What did Lincoln Want?
Ten Percent Plan (1863)
Radical Republicans
Thaddeus Stevens
Charles Sumner
Wade-Davis Bill (1864)
Congress in charge of Recon.
Pocket veto
Who the heck is Andrew
Johnson?
Lincoln VP
Tennessee; Unionist
Democrat
Similar to Lincoln’s plan
Impeachment of Johnson
Tenure of Office Act
Johnson fires Stanton
Impeached
Senate does not convict
Election of Grant -- 1868
“waiving the bloody shirt”
Republican presidents until 1884
African-Americans vote Republican
Civil War Amendments
13th:
14th:
15th:
What Needs to Be
Reconstructed?
The Post-War South:
Destroyed…
Physically:
Economically:
Psychologically:
Scalawags & Carpetbaggers
Scalawags:
Carpetbaggers:
What challenges do former slaves
face?
What’s going to happen to freed
slaves?
Education
80% of freed Af-Am over age of 20 illiterate by 1870
Hampton Institution, Virginia
Politics
Freeborn and former slaves hold local, state, and federal
office
SC: black majority in state legislature
AF-Am ministers emerge as political leaders
Students in a Math class at
Hampton University -- 1899
Hiram Revels First Af-American Senator
Mississippi (1870-1871)
“Forty Acres & A Mule”
Sherman’s Field Order 15:
Stevens urges confiscation
& redistribution
Congress fails to pass
effective land-reform
Slavery Without the Slaves
Sharecropping:
Anti-Black Violence: The KKK
Ku Klux Klan http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YLN7PBIdRsM (10:13-18:15)
-- Terrorist organization; white supremacy
Goals:
Methods:
Why does the North lose
interest?
Grant’s Scandals
Credit Mobilier
Company skimming profits from
gov’t contracts
Whiskey Ring
IRS takes bribes from distillers
who avoid paying taxes
Economic Problems
Panic of 1873
Over-speculation -- “boom and bust”
5 year depression
Gold Question
Should the gov’t print “easy money”?
His Fraudulency
Hayes (R-OH) loses popular vote
to Tilden (D-NY)
Tilden does not win Electoral
College
Hayes is the President. What?
Bargain of 1877
Federal troops out of South
RR from Texas to the West
Southerner in the Cabinet
Thus endeth Reconstruction…
How’d We
Do?