Resconstruction

Reconstruction

1865-1877

Open Ended

Write down the meaning of the word, reconstruct.

Think about how the concept

relates to the period after the Civil War.

The Painful Process

• rebuilding the United States

• great pain and endless questions

The Questions

• What terms would the Confederacy be allowed back into the Union?

• Who would establish the terms, Congress or the President?

• What was to be the place of freed blacks in the South? 

• Would Blacks be citizens?

Physical Toll

• Economic shattering

• majority of Southern factories in ruins

• railroads destroyed

Human Toll

• More than 1/5 of White Males were lost in war (260,000)

• Majority of blacks who fought died

Southerners Hardships

• accommodating a new freed black population

• Overcoming racism

Changing the plantation

• Sharecroppers

• Tenant farmers

Key Terms

• Reconstruction- the period following the Civil War of rebuilding the Southern United States

• Pardon-the action of forgiving or being forgiven for an error or offense

• Civil Rights- the rights of citizens to political and social freedom and equality

• Confederacy-the Southern slave states in rebellion against the Union

Open Ended

Think of a time in your life when you experienced change.

How did you and

others react to that change?

Did you want to go back to the way things were

before the change?

Lincoln's Plan

• Impossible to separate Reconstruction policy from the war policy

• Re-unification was the central object 

• Speedy reconstruction

• terms of amnesty... South restored to Union

Johnson's Plan

• distaste for the “planter aristocracy”

• Radicals and Blacks believed they had an ally

• rhetorical blunders

• created distrust with Congress

• Eventually impeached

Key Terms

• Reconstruction- reuniting and rebuilding the country

• Black Codes- laws regulating the lives of African Americans

• 14th Amendment-provided all citizens with “equal protection under the laws"

• 15th Amendment- Blacks given the right to vote

• Civil Rights- the rights of citizens to political and social freedom and equality

• Impeachment- a charge of misconduct made against the holder of a public office