Reconstruction 1865 1877 Restoring the Nation The South
- Slides: 44
Reconstruction 1865 -1877 Restoring the Nation
The South in Ruins at the End of the Civil War
Destruction of Charleston, SC
Rail Lines in Atlanta
Still Burying the Dead One Year After the War at Cold Harbor, Virginia
Andrew Johnson President 1865 -1869
Andrew Johnson Born in Raleigh, NC-1806 Moved to Greenville, Tennessee as teenager Married Eliza Mc. Cardle of Greenville Tailor Tennessee General Assembly and Governor of Tennessee Only Southern US Senator Who Remained Loyal to the Union Selected as Lincoln’s running mate in 1864
Andrew Johnson Birthplace on the campus of NC State University, Raleigh
Andrew Johnson Home Greenville, Tennessee 50 Miles West of Asheville
Black Codes Laws that were passed by Southern Legislatures during Reconstruction that restricted the freedoms of former slaves
Radical Republicans Members of Congress led by Thaddeus Stevens of Pennsylvania and Charles Sumner of Massachusetts who wanted stricter Reconstruction guidelines for the South Stevens Sumner
1865 -13 th Amendment to the US Constitution Legal Abolishment of Slavery in all states in the Union All Southern States were required to ratify this constitutional amendment for remittance to the Union
1866 -14 th Amendment to the United States Constitution Made all former slaves citizens of the United States All Southern States had to ratify this amendment for remittance back into the Union
15 th Amendment to the United States Constitution The 15 th Amendment Gave Black Males the Right to Vote
The Radical Republican Reconstruction Plan
Military Rule in the South
William Holden NC’s Reconstruction Governor Raleigh Newspaper Owner Who Led Peace Movement During the Civil War for NC to Return to the Union He said that the “War was a rich man’s war and a poor man’s fight. ” 1865 - Appointed Military Governor by President Andrew Johnson Organized the Republican Party in NC
1868 - North Carolina Is Readmitted to the Union
Freedmen’s Bureau Federal program to aide the former slaves, especially the creation of African American schools
Helping the South
Magazine Drawing Showing Freedman’s Bureau Officer Protecting Black From an Angry White Mob in Alabama
Ku Klux Klan Began in Pulaski, Tennessee by Former Confederate General Nathan Bedford Forrest Name Origin- Ku Klos. Greek, “Circle”
Reconstruction Era Objectives of the Klan 1. Restore law and order to the war-torn South 2. Protect Southern White Women from the Former Black Slaves 3. Return the South to White Rule 4. Promote White Supremacy 5. Promote Protestant Christianity
The Klan Wanted Be Known as the Protector of the White Women of the South
The Klan Idea of America-WASP W- Must Be White A- Anglo-(Ancestors from Northern Europe that had descended from the Anglo Saxon tribes that established themselves mostly in the British Isles by the early Dark Ages S-Saxon P- Protestant Christianity
Poster By Southern Democrats Who Were Pushing For White Rule
Southern “Jim Crow” Laws passed by Southern Legislators to enforce segregation during Reconstruction and lasted until the 1960’s Thomas Rice, a white man portrayed a black man in a negative manner named Jim Crow.
“Carpetbaggers” Northerners who moved to the South during Reconstruction and took advantage of Southerners.
“Scalawags” *Southerners who blamed Southern Democrats for causing the Civil War *Southerners who voted for Republicans Thomas Nast 1874 Cartoon. Republican Elephant
Andrew Johnson’s Impeachment Charges The House of Representatives Brings 11 Counts of Impeachment The Major Charge Was that Andrew Johnson Did Not Have the Authority to Fire Secretary of War Edwin Stanton Without Congressional Approval
Impeachment Hearing for Andrew Johnson
UNITED STATES SENATE - ANDREW JOHNSON’ S IMPEACHMENT TRIAL-1868
The Senate Allows Andrew Johnson to Remain President By 1 Vote
Andrew Johnson’s Grave Greenville, Tennessee • Andrew Johnson was elected to the United States Senate from Tennessee. • He is the only former President to be elected to the Senate. • He died in Carter County, Tennessee, 1875. His burial request was to be wrapped in an American flag and for his head to rest on a copy of the United States Constitution
Ulysses S. Grant 18 th President 1869 -1877 Former Union General Weak President With Scandal in Administration
Reconstruction Cartoon Is this a cartoon that would have been in a Southern or Northern Newspaper? Why?
February, 1870 - The Klan hanged an African American Republican Leader, Wyatt Outlaw on the grounds of the Alamance County Courthouse and a white Republican leader, John Stephens in Caswell County Governor Holden sends troops under former Union Colonel George Kirk to Caswell and Alamance Counties 100 citizens are arrested and held without habeas corpus (holding without charges) This leads to the General Assembly trying Governor Holden for Impeachment He’s Convicted of 6/8 charges and removed from office. He was first governor in American history to be impeached. Kirk- Holden War Stephens Governor Holden
Reconstruction Progress in the South
The End of Reconstruction-1877
Rutherford B. Hayes 19 th President-(1877 -1881)-Republican/Ohio Lucy Hayes Ended Reconstruction and Pulled All Military From the Former States of the Confederacy Did Not Allow Any Alcohol in the White House and was Given the Nickname “Lemonade Lucy. ” She Began the Annual Easter Egg Hunt at the White House
Has the South Reconstructed or Are We Still Not There? ? ? Is the South different today? Has the South “Caught Up” with the rest of the nation in economics, education, and general standard of living? What evidence is there that the South can be truly be called “The New South? ” What is still around from the Reconstruction Era 1865 -1877? Charlotte Atlanta
- Whats the compromise of 1877
- State vs nation
- Nation state vs nation
- State vs nation
- North or south who killed reconstruction
- Restoring lost body fluids
- Restoring force physics
- Restoring the shattered self
- Units for period of a pendulum
- Spiritual landmarks in the bible
- Restoring the tabernacle of david
- Restoring force of a pendulum
- Periodic motion pictures
- Spring constant formula
- What does this picture depict
- A nation divided: north vs. south
- 1877 golden 1
- Great railroad strike of 1877 significance
- Compromise of 1877
- Tanssija 1877-1927
- Georgia history timeline 1877-1919
- The key tradeoff featured in the compromise of 1877
- The great railroad strike of 1877 was provoked by
- Reconstruction era art
- Haymarket square riot apush
- Whats the compromise of 1877
- The gilded age 1877 to 1898 worksheet answers
- Compromise of 1877 apush
- 15 th ammendment
- Hollywood silver fox farm v emmett
- Chapter 20 becoming a world power notes
- Regionalism in american literature
- Lesson 1 the rise of industry
- Native clothing
- The rise of industrial america 1865-1900
- Industrialization (1865 to 1901 worksheet answers key)
- Becoming a world power 1865-1917
- Gregor mendel 1865
- Four features of industrial manufacturing (1865-1900)
- Urban america 1865 to 1896
- 1865 to 1900 inventions
- Impressionism art movement characteristics
- Where did the term “impressionism” come from?
- Old south vs new south streetcar named desire
- Thẻ vin