Bell Ringer Have you ever experienced change How
Bell Ringer • Have you ever experienced change? • How did you and others react to it? • Did you want it to go back to the way it was?
American Government Chapter 5: Reconstruction II. Congressional Reconstruction
Objectives • Discover how black codes and the Fourteenth Amendment were related. • Analyze the difference between Congress’s Reconstruction plan and Andrew Johnson’s • Learn the significance of the Fifteenth amendment. • Find out who supported the Republican government of the South.
A) Black Codes 6) Black codes: laws that restricted freedmen’s rights. • Established virtual slavery – curfews, vagrancy laws, labor contracts, land restrictions. • Republican Congress passed Civil Rights Act of 1866 outlawing black codes – Johnson vetoed – Congress overrode 7) 14 th Amendment: gave citizenship to exslaves.
B) Radical Reconstruction • Moderate Republicans did not want to give southern blacks more civil rights than northern blacks 8) Civil rights: citizens’ personal liberties guaranteed by law – voting and equal treatment • 3 riots against blacks in Memphis, New Orleans, and New York – killed hundreds of blacks
• 1) 2) 3) 4) 5) 6) Radicals passed the Reconstruction Act of 1867 South under military rule Hold new elections All voters must vote – African Americans Confederates couldn’t vote Guarantee equal rights Must ratify the 14 th Amendment
• Johnson fighting against Senator Charles Sumner and Congressmen Thaddeus Stevens. • Johnson tried to fire Secretary of War Edwin Stanton – a Radical • Violated the Tenure of Office Act – President must get Senate approval to fire people – no longer Commander in Chief • House impeached Johnson – remained in office by 1 vote 9) impeach: charge with wrongdoing in office • Grant wins election in 1868
C) Fifteenth Amendment. 10)15 th Amendment: no citizen can be denied the right to vote • African Americans lead the way in politics in the South • Hundreds of freedman all Republicans take office throughout the South • Black Congressmen and Senators elected to DC
D) Republican South. 11)carpetbaggers: northerners who came to the South • Most Northern were honest – some were profiteers 12) scalawag: a white southerner who became a republican – traitor
Paragraph Synthesis • Using these 5 vocabulary words. Write a paragraph that gives a summary of this section. NO definitions. 1) Civil Rights 2) Black Codes 3) Radical reconstruction 4) Impeach 5) Scalawag
Review • How were black codes and the 14 th Amendment related? • How did Congress’s Reconstruction plan differ from Johnson’s plan? • What was the significance of the 15 th Amendment? • Who supported the Republican governments of the South?
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