Reconstruction

Lincoln’s Purpose for Reconstruction

• To restore and rebuild the south

• To reunite the country

• To pardon those who seceded from the Union

After Lincoln’s Death

• The south didn’t see the economic growth that other regions saw due to the tremendous loses they incurred in the W

• Manufacturing grew more slowly • Congress takes control and puts the south under

military rule thus enforcing the idea that all men could vote

• Congress didn’t want former confederate leaders elected and in charge of southern states

3 branches of government

•Legislative Branch : Congress (House of Representatives and Senate) make the laws

•Executive Branch: President makes sure the laws are obeyed

• Judicial Branch: Supreme Court interprets the laws and settles legal arguments

How to change the constitution

and add amendments•Amendments are proposed

changes to the Constitution•Proposed by 2/3rd of the House

of Representatives and SenateAnd then

•3/4th of the states must ratify (accept)

How are citizen’s rights protected by the 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments

13th Amendmen

t

Outlawed slavery

14th Amendmen

tGuaranteed due process (right to a

trial)Made

African-Americans

citizens with equal

protection under the

law

15th Amendmen

t

Gave African-

Americans the right to

vote

Why did freedmen decide to sharecrop?

• Few had the money to buy land

• Only thing they knew was farming

• Sharecroppers stayed poor because it was hard to get out of debt

• Sharecropping: a system o farming in which the tenant farmer pays his rent with a share of his crops

How did Reconstruction change the lives of African-Americans in the South?

• Slaves were freed

• Public school systems were established in the south

• Freedmen’s Bureau was established

• Failure of reconstruction was the inability to guarantee the rights of the freed slaves

How did the Jim Crow laws and social customs of the South affect the lives of

African Americans?• Some southerners didn’t want the freed slaves

to be equal so Jim Crow laws were imposed• These laws created segregation and prevented

equality

• Black Codes: were passed by southern states to limit the rights of former enslaved people to travel, vote, and work in certain jobs.

End of Reconstruction

• Herbert Hayes is president and orders the government soldiers to leave the south

After Lincoln

President Johnson•Became Vice President

March 4, 1865

Became President September 1865

Reconstruction plan offered amnesty to southerners

Radical Republicans

Black Americans to have equal rights including the right to vote