Reconstruction Presidential Versus Congressional Reconstruction Reconstruction The time

Reconstruction Presidential Versus Congressional Reconstruction

Reconstruction • The time period following the Civil War, which lasted from 1865 to 1877. • The time period during which the U. S. began to rebuild after the Civil War. • Also, the process the federal government used to readmit the defeated Confederate states to the Union.

Differing views of Reconstruction • Presidential Reconstruction • More lenient • The Ten Percent Plan • Readmitted states back into the Union very easily. • Issued many pardons • Congressional Reconstruction • More radical (radical reconstruction) • Congress drafted the Fourteenth Amendment. • Made all people born in the U. S. , citizens • Divided former Confederate states into military districts. • Congress ratified the Fifteenth Amendment. • Protected voting rights.

Opposition to Reconstruction • Ku Klux Klan • A vigilante group • They whipped, tortured and murdered former slaves. • Its goals were to • Destroy the Republican Party • Throw out reconstruction governments • Prevent African Americans from exercising their political rights.

The Birth of A Nation • A silent film which portrays the KKK as rescuing the South from the “atrocities” of reconstruction. • http: //www. youtube. com/watch? v=9 t 7 SVb. Lj. Bw&feature=related

The Civil War Amendments • 13 th Amendment, Abolished Slavery • 14 th Amendment, Citizenship • 15 th Amendment, Voting