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Challenges
How will southern states reenter the Union? Can the nation be reunited?
How can the southern economy recover? What labor system will replace slavery?
How will former slaves survive? Will former slaves receive equal citizenship rights?
Presidential Reconstruction
Lincoln: hoped for a compassionate reunion; envisioned a forgiving nation that could move
forward
10% Plan pardons offered to any confederate who swore an oath of loyalty to the U.S.
o states can reenter once 10% of their people were pardoned
Military Reconstruction
Divided South into 5 military districts under military rule
Required state governments to ratify 14th amendment
Barred ex-confederates from voting
Required states to allow former slaves (adult males) to vote
Congressional Reconstruction
Impeachment of Andrew Johnson
After vetoing 29 bills Johnson was impeached for firing a cabinet
member
One vote short of being removed from office
Mostly powerless for the rest of his term
Ku Klux Klan
Secret society established by white supremacists to terrorize
freedmen
Targeted African Americans and anyone supporting/helping
them
Wednesday April 19th 2017
Pick up your spirals/folders from the front, take out a pen/pencil and
your Reconstruction notes.
Also, expect random non-open note vocabulary quizzes from now on.
Election of 1876
Voting was disputed between Republican (Rutherford Hayes) and
Democrat (Samuel Tilden)
End of Reconstruction
Compromise of 1877
Unwritten, informal agreement that basically ended reconstruction
Hayes is president in exchange for removing all federal troops from
the South
Nearly 100 years passed before the racial inequalities were addressed again
Equality and Race Relations
Womens Rights
The 15th amendment did not apply to women
19th amendment (1920) finally gave women constitutional suffrage
Native Americans
Dawes Act (1877) allowed the president to break up reservations into
small sections
o Goal was to force natives to become farmers and abandon tribal society
o Lost most of their land and remaining freedom
Attempt to assimilate them into American society
For Questions
Does not have to be complete sentences