Reconstruction Lesson 1 Plans for Reconstruction Clash Reconstruction

Reconstruction Lesson 1 Plans for Reconstruction Clash

Reconstruction Lesson 1 Plans for Reconstruction Clash Learning Objectives • • • Explain the multiple reasons why a plan was needed for Reconstruction of the South. Compare the strengths and weaknesses of the Reconstruction plans of Lincoln, Johnson, and Congress. Discuss Johnson’s political difficulties and impeachment.

Reconstruction Lesson 1 Plans for Reconstruction Clash Key Terms • • • Reconstruction Radical Republicans Wade-Davis Bill Freedmen’s Bureau Andrew Johnson black codes Civil Rights Act of 1866 Fourteenth Amendment impeach Fifteenth Amendment

The Challenges of Reconstruction Even before the end of the Civil War, Congress and the President disagreed about how the seceded states would rejoin the Union. When the war ended, bitterness between the North and South was compounded by a power struggle between the executive and legislative branches of government. The issues that arose and how they were dealt with would have consequences for generations to come.

The Challenges of Reconstruction • • • How to Reunite the Union How to Rebuild the Southern Economy How to Extend Citizenship to African Americans

The Challenges of Reconstruction Union troops celebrate their victory in a May 1865 parade in Washington, D. C.

The Challenges of Reconstruction Analyze Data What circumstances at the end of the Civil War help explain the proportional party representation shown in these graphs?

The Challenges of Reconstruction Analyze Maps Where did African Americans have some voting rights?

Competing Reconstruction Plans Even while the war was in progress, Union politicians had debated programs for repairing the nation’s political structure and economy. For President Lincoln, one of the first major goals was to reunify the nation.

Competing Reconstruction Plans • • • Lincoln's Ten Percent Plan Radical Republicans and the Wade-Davis Bill The Freedmen's Bureau

Competing Reconstruction Plans Lincoln meets with three of his top generals shortly before the end of the war in this 1868 painting by George P. A. Healy. Interpret Why might this painting be entitled The Peacemakers?

The Johnson Presidency and Reconstruction Lincoln was assassinated in April 1865, just weeks after his second inauguration. Lincoln’s death thrust his Vice President, Andrew Johnson, into the presidency.

The Johnson Presidency and Reconstruction • • • Johnson's Plan for Reconstruction Black Codes in the South Conflict Between Johnson and Congress

The Johnson Presidency and Reconstruction Analyze Information Which plan made it easiest former Confederate states to rejoin the United States? Which treated those states the most harshly?

The Johnson Presidency and Reconstruction In this political cartoon, Andrew Johnson betrays the interests of an African American veteran. Analyze Political Cartoons What symbolism does the cartoon use to influence viewers' opinions of Johnson and African American veterans?

Congress Passes a Plan for Reconstruction As violence against African Americans in the South increased, moderate and Radical Republicans blamed the rising tide of lawlessness on Johnson’s lenient policies. Congress then did something unprecedented. With the required two-thirds majority, for the first time ever, it passed major legislation over a President’s veto. The Civil Rights Act of 1866 became law.

Congress Passes a Plan for Reconstruction • • • The Fourteenth Amendment Johnson's Impeachment The Fifteenth Amendment

Congress Passes a Plan for Reconstruction President Andrew Johnson's relatively lenient Reconstruction policies angered Radical Republicans in Congress.

Congress Passes a Plan for Reconstruction Analyze Maps How do you think southerners felt about miliary rule by northern generals?

Congress Passes a Plan for Reconstruction Analyze Information Which president came closer to being removed from office? How can you tell?

Congress Passes a Plan for Reconstruction Analyze Information Based on this information, what was the overall goal of new laws and amendments during Reconstruction?

Quiz: The Challenges of Reconstruction What was one of the most important issues of Reconstruction? A. to determine how the representatives of Southern states would return to Congress B. to decide how to ensure that states repaid debts from the conflict C. to decide how the slavery issue would be resolved in the territories D. to plan how to move recent immigrants from crowded northern cities to southern farms

Quiz: Competing Reconstruction Plans What did the Freedmen's Bureau do? A. B. C. D. organize loyalty oaths by African American and white citizens in the South provide assistance to African American and white refugees in the South redistribute southern plantation lands to freedmen and poor whites register formerly enslaved people to vote

Quiz: The Johnson Presidency and Reconstruction How did Johnson's plan for Reconstruction compare to the plan of Radical Republicans? A. B. C. D. Johnson's plan granted more freedoms to African Americans. Johnson's plan implemented most tenets of the Congressional plan. Johnson's plan imposed harsher terms on southern states. Johnson's plan was more lenient with fewer protections for African Americans.

Quiz: Congress Passes a Plan for Reconstruction Congress impeached President Johnson for violating which law? A. B. C. D. Fourteenth Amendment Military Reconstruction Act Tenure of Office Act Thirteenth Amendment