Reconstruction Amendments Lincoln Plan

Reconstruction

After the War

• Reconstruction is the

era after the Civil War
when the South went
through the process
of being accepted
back into the Union

• Lincoln’s plan was to

let each state back in
after 10% of the
people took an oath
of allegiance to the
U.S. and the state
ratified the 13th
amendment

“With
malice
towards
none . . .”

Day 1

1. What was “Reconstruction”?

2. What was Lincoln’s plan for this time

period?

Conflict in Plans

• The President and

Congress had different
plans for Reconstruction

• When Andrew Johnson

became president, he
thought the South should
be treated leniently like
Lincoln had believed

• The Radical Republicans

in Congress believed the
South should be
punished for seceding
from the U.S.

Vs
.

Day 1

1. What did President Johnson think about

the South during Reconstruction?

2. What did the Radical Republicans want?

Impeachment of Johnson

• To try and control the

president, Congress
passed the Tenure of
Office Act which limited
the power of the
president when he
wanted to fire someone

• President Johnson fired

his Secretary of War
anyway, causing
Congress to impeach
him.

• Congress was one vote

short of removing him
from office

• Shortly after, Ulysses S.

Grant became the 18th
US. President

“You’re
fired.”

“No, you
should

be fired.”

Day 1

1. Why did Congress impeach President

Johnson?

2. Were they successful?

Freedmen

• During Reconstruction

people viewed and
treated freedmen
[former slaves] in
contrasting ways

• Southerners passed

“Black Codes” to
control the lives of
freedmen

• The Freedmen’s

Bureau was an
organization that fed,
clothed, and educated
freedmen as they
assimilated into society

Day 2

1. Who were the freedmen?

2. What were “Black Codes”?

Civil War Amendments

• In 1865, the 13th

Amendment officially
ended slavery in
America

• In 1868, the 14th

Amendment gave
citizenship to freedmen
and required that states
give everyone “due
process of law” and
“equal protection of the
laws”

• In 1870, the 15th

amendment said a
person could vote
regardless of their race

Day 2

1. Which amendment abolished slavery?

2. What did the 14th Amendment do?

3. What did the 15th amendment do?

South During Reconstruction

• Carpetbaggers came to

the South from the
North to help solve
economic and social
problems

• Scalawags were

Southerners who
supported and helped
with the process of
Reconstruction

• Hiram Rhodes Revels

represented an
improved treatment of
African Americans by
becoming the first
freedman in the U.S.
Congress.

Day 3

1. Who were the carpetbaggers?

2. Who was the first freedman in Congress?

The “New South”

• The South aimed to not

just be an agricultural
society based on cotton,
but to build more
factories and become
industrialized like the
North

• The South still farmed

however and many
slaves became
sharecroppers in which
they had to give half of
what they made back to
the landowner

Day 3

1. How did the South want to change after

the war?

2. What was a “sharecropper”?

Reconstruction Ends

• In 1877, Rutherford B.

Hayes was elected
president of the U.S.

• He withdrew federal

troops from the South
and officially ended
Reconstruction

• The South quickly

returned to mistreating
freedmen and created
“Jim Crow” laws that
segregated freedmen
from the rest of society

We’re leaving.

Reconstruction is

done

Day 3

1. Who ended Reconstruction?

2. What were “Jim Crow” laws?