Reconstruction:
I After the Civil War, Power shifted
A. Propertied class was wiped out
1. production of Cotton,
sugar, tobacco was low
II. Theories of legal status of southern states:
A. Lincoln/Johnson
1. in a state of rebellion
(didn't leave union; impossible)
B. Radical Republicans
1. states committed suicide;
are conquered provinces
III. Any government oblication to protect free status of freedmen?
A. Freedman's Bureau: gave provisions to refugees
(B & W)
1. teaches freedmen to read,
write; skills; finds them jobs
B. All extra help from Af-Am community
1. develops w/ church life as
center
2 severe discrimination
IV how sharecropping starts
A. to avoid field gang labor
B. puts farmers in permanent debt
V. How to reconstruct the nation?
A. Lincoln: forgiveness for slaveowners
1. former slaves get some
suffrace with literacy
2. S. state reenters w/ full
rights when 10% pledge loyalty
B. Radical Reconstructionists
1. pass Wade- Davis bill
50% voters
must take iron clad oath
2. made states ratify 13th
amendment before coming back to union
3. worked to safe guard rights
of freedmen
C. Black codes- passed by S. states to control
freedmen
1. list rights of
African Americans
2. banned
interracial marriage
3. kept wages low,
banned renting land
4. Punnished 'idleness'
w/ chain gang work
VI. To preserve rights of Blacks to freedom: Congressional
Reconstruction
A 14th amendment passed
same ideas as Civil Rts bill,
vetoed by Pres Johnson
- rights of citizenship
B. 15th amendment (vote) to preserve 14th
amendment
VII How enforced:
A. south divided by Reconstruction Act into 5
districts
1. till
they approve 14th amendment, grant full suffrage to all men
2.
14th: grants all born in US: citizenship w/ full rights
a. rights cannot be denied by states
3. 15th
amendment: Right to vote extended to all male citizens age 21
a. important so Blacks can protect their freedoms
B. Pres. Johnson fought these.. tried to veto
acts; Congress overrode w/ 2/3 majority
1. Radicals
tried to impeach Johnson but he was aquitted by 1 vote 1868
VIII Command of the Army Act:
All orders from Cmd in Chief (Pres) must go
through General of the Army (Grant)
IX How reconstructed was the south?
A. nearly all applications for pardon accepted
B. most former seccessionists, congressmen back
in politics
C. even officers of Jeff Davis' gov
D. SC and MS refused to ratify the 13th amendment
X S Whites hated Carpet baggers (Ns who came south to take
advantage)
A. hated scalawags: (s collaborators)
XI How the south reemerges
A. KKK rises up to stop Blacks from voting
1. violence, terror
B. deal of 1876 allowed reconstruction to end,
Repub to be president
if N w/d all troops
C. laws passed outlaw voting by blacks
D. racism increased- segregation spreads
1. once Blacks stopped from
voting, S. "redeemers" regain office
E. Blacks accommodate... Booker T Washington:
economic gains first... civil rights down the road
F. WEB Du Bois favors ceaseless agitation
1. says talented tenth should
be cultivated
How did reconstruction end?
A. Election deal 1876 w/drew troops from South
B. more interest in West, Indians, Money issues
C. South passed Jim Crow laws to secure
segregation and remove vote
The New Order of the south