Thompsons Reconstruction Notes.notebook September 11, 2015 Wartime Reconstruction: OBJECTIVE #1 1. Sherman's Field Order #15 gave "40 acres and a Explain how the President and mule" to freedman Congress clashed over Reconstruction Sep 117:43 AM Sep 117:51 AM President Johnson's Plan: Lincoln's Plan: 1. Amnesty to all Confederates. Take your place back in society, politics, 1. States never really left the etc. Union since it is illegal to do 2. Vetoed any attempt to give civil so. rights to freedmen. 2. When 10% of citizens 3. Gave speeches rallying return to declare loyalty, you are the "old order" restored to statehood. 3. Pardon all Confederates. Sep 117:48 AM Sep 117:44 AM Congressional Reconstruction, 1867: Radical Republicans: 1. Several different laws. 1. Led by Thaddeus Divided South into 5 military Stevens. districts, governed by Union generals. 2. Punish the South. 2. Martial law declared. Create "new order" in society and politics. Sep 117:53 AM Sep 117:44 AM 1
Thompsons Reconstruction Notes.notebook September 11, 2015 Constitutional Amendments: 13th No slavery Objective 2: 14th Civil rights for all 15th All men vote Describe how Reconstruction affected the South Sep 118:00 AM Sep 117:44 AM Emergence of KKK: Sharecropping: 1. Maintain old social order. 1. Freedmen can stay on plantation, work and "share" White dominance. profit. 2. Can't leave unless all debts settled. Sep 117:44 AM Sep 117:57 AM Presidential Election of 1876: Objective #3: 1. Nobody wins. Tilden (D) and Hayes (R). 2. Congress decides with a "Compromise of 1877". Explain how Reconstruction 3. North gets their President ended. Hayes. South gets troops removed and martial law gone. Sep 117:57 AM Sep 117:57 AM 2
Thompsons Reconstruction Notes.notebook September 11, 2015 Result? 1. No troops to protect freedman. So, no voting or civil rights! Sep 117:44 AM Sep 118:09 AM 3
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