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Unit 7 Exam Review Reconstruction ?s 1-4

• Sir Michael Wright
• Squire Brian Vincent DeMott
• Duke Josh Miller

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Reconstruction Questions 1-4

• 1. The reasons for the clash between the
  executive and legislative branches of government
  over the issue of Reconstruction, and the events
  and forces that affected the development of the
  Congressional Reconstruction plans.
• 2. An evaluation of the Reconstruction experience
  for blacks.
• 3. The differences between the provisions of
  President Johnson's Reconstruction Plan and its
  actual operation.
• 4. The major provisions of the 14th and 15th
  Amendments, the reasons for their passage by
  Congress, and the compromises embodied in each.

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Executive Viewpoints on Reconstruction

• Lincoln wanted the 10 Plan which allowed for
  people to vote who were for the Union.
• However Johnson offered amnesty to all those
  except confederate, civil, and military officers
  and those with over 20,000 dollars
• They must except minimum condition involving
  slavery, seccession, and state debts
• The Johnson set up a government in the
  confederate states until their own elections
  could take place
• Johnson would give pardons to those who asked

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Legislative viewpoints on Reconstruction

• Congress was for the 1866 Civil Rights Act
• Congress was for the 1866 Freedman Bureau Bill
• They didnt want southern leaders to be in
  control

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Final Effect

• At first disenfranchised certain leading
  confederates.
• Pardoned planter aristocrats brought them back to
  political power to control state organization.
• Republicans were outraged that planter elite were
  back in power in the south.
• Many southern state constitutions fell short of
  minimum requirements.
• First time in U.S. History passed bill over
  presidents veto!

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Reconstruction for Blacks

• 13th amendment gave them freedom in Dec. 1865
• 14th amendment provided rights and security to
  blacks in July 1868
• 15th amendment gave all males the right to vote

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Cont

• Black Codes guaranteed a stable labor force
• Restored pre-emancipation system of race
  relations
• Forced many Blacks to become sharecroppers
• The blacks were abused by the Ku Klux Klan and
  other organizations

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14th Amendment

• Ratified July 1868
• Provided a constitution guarantee of right and
  security of freed people
• Insure against neo-confederate political power.
• Enshrine the national debt while repudiating that
  of the confederacy
• Southern states would be punished for denying the
  right to vote to black citizens

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15th Amendment

• Was ratified in 1870
• Every citizen has the right to vote that is a
  male
• Congress has a power to enforce this article by
  appropriate legislation
• Women were furious that they could not have the
  right to vote
• Enforcement Acts of 1870 and 1871
• (also known as the KKK act)

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Final Analysis

• Reconstruction was a failure
• The officials who were in charge before the civil
  war were again in power.
• Blacks wouldnt receive respect for another 100
  years when the King came.
• Blacks were still enslave in a sense because they
  were share croppers.