Reconstruction Chapter 17 Reconstruction Period of rebuilding the
Reconstruction Chapter 17
Reconstruction • Period of re-building the nation • Plans for re-admitting states to the union
Two Plans • Lincoln – 10 % plan • Radicals – Wade-Davis Bill
Freedman’s Bureau • Set up by Lincoln and Congress • Helped African Americans adjust to freedom
Lincoln’s Assassination • Ford’s Theater • John Wilkes Booth
President Andrew Johnson • Restoration – Amnesty for oath – Pardons only by appeal –Only pardoned could vote for delegates
Re-entering the Union • Denounce secession • Ban Slavery • Ratify the 13 th Amendment
Black Codes • Passed by southern states • Resembled Slavery
Civil Rights Act of 1866 • Overturned Black Codes • Granted full citizenship to African Americans • Overturned Dred Scot
Election of 1868 • Ulysses S. Grant th becomes the 18 President
14 th Amendment • Equal protection under the law
15 th Amendment • Bans racial discrimination in voting
Resistance to Reconstruction • Most Southern Whites opposed rights for African Americans
Ku Klux Klan • Secret society that used fear and violence to deny rights
Education • Created own schools – Segregated – Academies • Colleges and Universities
Farming • Few able to buy own land • Sharecropping
Election of 1876 • President • Rutherford B. Hayes
“New South” • 1880’s looked to Industry – textiles, tobacco, iron, steel • Agriculture remained main economic activity
Discrimination • Violence increased • Lynching common
Voting Restrictions • Poll Tax • Literacy Test – Grandfather Clause
Jim Crow Laws • Segregation laws • Plessy vs. Ferguson – Separate but equal
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