Do Now Think of a time when you

Do Now: Think of a time when you were told to do something you didn’t want to do. • Did you do it? • Why or why not? • Under what circumstances would you have behaved differently?

Federal Reconstruction: Constitutional Amendments • 13 th Amendment – abolished slavery • 14 th Amendment – citizenship (overturned Dred Scott) • 15 th Amendment – right to vote, can’t deny based on race

Federal Reconstruction: Military Reconstruction Act • divided South into 5 military districts • Governed by a general with federal troops • Government formed by Southerners loyal to the Union • Must include both whites and freedmen • Confed. supporters denied the vote

Civil Rights Act of 1866 • made black codes illegal by declaring freedmen full citizens with same rights as whites • Johnson vetoed • Congress overruled (2/3 vote of Congress)

Radical Reconstruction: Southern States Respond • Constitutions – constitutions rewritten, most advanced in nation, ended imprisonment for debt, started public schools, right to vote regardless of race, ¼ delegates rewriting const. were AA • Governments – Republicans in office, 1/5 AA, ratified 14 th and 15 th Amendments, 1870 all states rejoined Union • Political Office – 1/5 were AA (22 AA in state Congress)

Social Norms did not change… Black codes: Sharecropping: • like previous slave codes • freedmen rented land, tools, homes, clothes, etc. • laws to limit rights of from plantation owners freedmen • help planters find work by • payment was made at harvest time limiting job opportunities • relied on honesty by for freedmen plantation owners (most • Keep freedmen at the freedmen lacked bottom of the social order. education)

Radical Reconstruction: Unwelcome by Southern Democrats • scalawags – White Southerners who voted Republican after the Civil War • carpetbaggers – Northerners who moved South after the war to get money and political power