Types of Reconstruction

• Congressional

• Presidential

Scalawags• Southern whites who

helped the federal government during Reconstruction.

• Viewed as traitors by those faithful to the Confederacy.

Carpetbaggers• Northerners who

moved south to make a fast buck and help out with Reconstruction.

• Greed is good.

Andrew Johnson• 17th President

• 1st to take over after an assassination

• poor & uneducated

• ran away as a child

• $10 reward offer

• From Tennessee and viewed as traitor and beaten at on his way to the inauguration.

Tenure of Office Act

• Congress hated Johnson and wanted to limit his power any way they could.

• Act stated that the President could not remove a person from federal office without approval of the Senate.

• Johnson fires Edwin Stanton, Secretary of War, without the Senate’s approval.

• This is an impeachable offense.

Presidential Impeachments

• House of Reps. brings up charges.

• Senate runs trial.

• Impeachment is just bringing the official to trial NOT kicking him out of office.

Johnson’s Impeachment

• In violation of Tenure of Office Act.

• Chief Justice Salmon Chase heard the case.

• Senator Ross of Kansas was the last to vote. His vote of no kept Johnson President by 1 vote. (35 to 19; 2 to 1 needed to remove)

Clinton’s Impeachment

• Lied under oath about extra marital affair with Monica Lewinsky.

Linda Tripp

• Linda Tripp taped phone conversations with Lewinsky and proved Clinton’s guilt. Kenneth Starr pushed for the impeachment trial.

AMENDMENTS

11TH AMENDMENT – LAWSUITS VS. STATES

12TH AMENDMENT –ELECTORAL COLLEGE

13th Amendment

• Slavery is now prohibited in the United States.

14th Amendment

• Former slaves are now citizens of the United States.

• All citizens are guaranteed equal protection under the law.

• The Ku Klux Klan gained approval with a majority of southern whites because of the 13th & 14th Amendments.

15th AMENDMENT

• BLACKS HAVE THE RIGHT TO VOTE

• IN THE SOUTH:– POLL TAX– LITERACY TEST– GRANDFATHER CLAUSES *

16TH AMENDMENT – CREATION OF AN INCOME TAX

17TH AMENDMENT – DIRECT ELECTION OF SENATORS

18TH AMENDMENT

• PROHIBITION• IT IS ILLEGAL TO

POSSESS, TRANSPORT, CONSUME, OR SELL ALCOHOL

• ONLY AMENDMENT TO BE REPEALED

PRESIDENTSJOHNSON - MCKINLEY

SEVEN PRESIDENTS BEACH….

_________ _________,

NEW JERSEY

ULYSSES S. GRANT

• 18TH PRESIDENT• CONSIDERED ONE

OF THE WORST PRESIDENTS IN HISTORY

• PRESIDENCY WAS RIDDLED WITH SCANDALS

GRANT’S TOMB

• LARGEST TOMB IN NORTH AMERICA

• LOCATED IN NEW YORK CITY

RUTHERFORD B. HAYES

• 19TH PRESIDENT• STOLE

PRESIDENCY FROM SAMUEL TILDEN

• FLORIDA, SOUTH CAROLINA, OREGON, AND LOUISIANA

JAMES GARFIELD

• 20TH PRESIDENT• 2ND PRESIDENT TO

BE ASSASSINATED• KILLED BY

CHARLES JULES _________________

CHESTER A. ARTHUR

• 21ST PRESIDENT

GROVER CLEVELAND

• 22ND & 24TH PRESIDENT

• ONLY PRESIDENT TO HAVE TWO NON-CONSECUTIVE TERMS

• BORN IN NJ

BENJAMIN HARRISON

• 23RD PRESIDENT

WILLIAM MCKINLEY

• 25TH PRESIDENT

• PRESIDENT DURING THE SPANISH-AMERICAN WAR

• 3RD PRESIDENT TO BE ASSASSINATED

• KILLED BY LEON CZOLGOSZ

• CZOLGOSZ - ELECTROCUTED

ELECTRIC CHAIR

• INVENTED BY DENTIST ALFRED SOUTHWICK

• INSPIRED BY THE INVENTIONS OF THOMAS EDISON

• MORE HUMANE THAN A HANGING

• YOU DECIDE. . .