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OBJECTIVE #1 Explain how the President and Congress clashed over Reconstruction

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Wartime Reconstruction:

• 1. Sherman's Field Order

#15 gave "40 acres and a mule" to freedman

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Lincoln's Plan:

• 1. States never really left the

Union since it is illegal to do so.

• 2. When 10% of citizens

declare loyalty, you are restored to statehood.

• 3. Pardon all Confederates.

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President Johnson's Plan:

• 1. Amnesty to all Confederates. Take

your place back in society, politics, etc.

• 2. Vetoed any attempt to give civil

rights to freedmen.

• 3. Gave speeches rallying return to

the "old order"

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Radical Republicans:

• 1. Led by Thaddeus

Stevens.

• 2. Punish the South.

Create "new order" in society and politics.

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Congressional Reconstruction, 1867:

• 1. Several different laws.

Divided South into 5 military districts, governed by Union generals.

• 2. Martial law declared.

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Constitutional Amendments: 13th­ No slavery 14th­ Civil rights for all 15th­ All men vote

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Objective 2: Describe how Reconstruction affected the South

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Sharecropping:

• 1. Freedmen can stay on

plantation, work and "share" profit.

• 2. Can't leave unless all

debts settled.

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Emergence of KKK:

• 1. Maintain old social order.

White dominance.

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Objective #3: Explain how Reconstruction ended.

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Presidential Election of 1876:

• 1. Nobody wins. Tilden (D)

and Hayes (R).

• 2. Congress decides with a

"Compromise of 1877".

• 3. North gets their President
• Hayes. South gets troops

removed and martial law gone.

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Result?

• 1. No troops to protect
• freedman. So, no voting or civil

rights!

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