The End of Reconstruction

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Lecture 1

• The End of Reconstruction

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Plans For Reconstruction

• How to Unify a Nation divided by war?
• Lincolns plan 1863
• General Amnesty to white southerners
• High ranking members of the Confederacy would
  take an oath of loyalty and accept the
  elimination of slavery
• 10 of 1860 voters took oath they could set up a
  state govt
• Extension of suffrage to educated, property
  owning, ex Union Army African-Americans

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Plans Cont

• Wade-Davis Bill 1864
• Introduced by Radical Republicans
• Called for president to appoint provisional
  governors of each conquered state
• Abolish slavery
• Disenfranchise Confederate military and civil
  leaders
• Repay debts

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Plans Cont II

• Lincolns Death Andrew Johnson
• Johnsons Plan Called Restoration implemented
  1865 while congress was on recess
• Some Amnesty to Southerners who took an oath
• Abolish slavery
• Ratify 13th Amendment
• Pay war debts
• Radical Republicans upset

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Radical Republicans

• Disdain for southern states and Democrat
  President Johnson
• Reluctance to abolish slavery
• Refusal to grant suffrage
• Former Confederate Leaders representation
• Passage of Black Codes
• 13th Amendment Abolishes Slavery
• 14th Amendment Equal Protection
• 15th Amendment Right to Vote

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Senate V. Johnson

• Senate passes Laws
• Extension of Freedmans Bureau
• Civil Rights Act of 1866
• Johnson Vetoes Laws
• Senate Overrides Johnson Veto and Becomes more
  powerful

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Impeachment of Johnson

• Tenure of Office Act
• Passed by Senate in 1867
• Forbade president to remove civil servants
  without Senate approval
• Johnson dismisses Secretary of War Edwin M.
  Stanton without Senate approval
• House vote to Impeach
• Senate trial
• Acquitted by 1 vote

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South During Reconstruction

• Blacks
• Economy
• Ku Klux Klan
• Repression of black rights
• Federal troops sent to end violence

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End of Reconstruction

• Grant and the Panic of 1873
• Northerners losing interest in South
• Radical Republicans replaced by Liberal
  Republicans
• Compromise of 1877
• The New South
• Jim Crow Laws
• Plessy V. Ferguson 1896