Amnesty

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10 Plan
Chapter 12

• Amnesty
• Support 13th Amendment
• Oath of loyalty

Reconstruction and its Effects
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Radical Republicans

• Felt principles were compromised
• Want more extreme action.
• Wade-Davis Bill
• Executive-Legislative battle begins.

Charles Sumner
Thaddeus Stevens
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April 9, 1865
Lee surrenders
War is over
Lincoln hopes nation can heal.
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A Weary President February, 1865
1860
1863
1865
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April 14, 1865
Lincoln's assassinated
John Wilkes Booth
"Sic semper tyrannis!"
Difficulty begins
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Funeral Procession April 19, 1865
Lincoln lying in State 1865
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Andrew Johnson Takes Control

• Improved education
• gthelped farmers
• disliked wealthy farmers.
• Amnesty for most Confederates
• Presidential Reconstruction

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13th Amendment

• Slavery is abolished by the Constitution
• Black Codes emerge.

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Freedman's Bureau

• Run by Army
• Distributed necessities to poor whites and former
  slaves.
• Johnson vetoed bill.
• Radicals Congressional Reconstruction.

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1866 Congressional Elections
Johnson and Grant go on speaking tour for
Democratic support gtDisaster Radical
Republicans win control of Congress gtReconstructi
on changes hands
Johnson and Grant 1866
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14th Amendment 1866
Formed basis for Civil Rights Act.
If states ratified amendment, they'd be
readmitted to union.
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and Abe would be P.O.d right about now!
But what youre doin to the South is
Destruction, not Reconstruction!
Go ahead Impeach me
Johnson found "not guilty" by one vote.
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1868 Election
Grant's Elected
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Reconstructing Society
More than 40 hospitals 4,000 primary
schools 61 industrial institutes 74 teacher
training institutes All in the South
15th Amendment
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Reconstructing Society
Carpetbaggers Scalawags Out for themselves.
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Freed slaves face challenges
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Senator Hiram Revels
The First African American Senator and
Representatives
The first African-American Senators and
Representatives to serve in Congress -- all
Republicans   (Left to right seated) Senator
Hiram Revels of Mississippi, Representatives
Benjamin Turner of Alabama, Robert DeLarge of
South Carolina, Josiah Walls of Florida,
Jefferson Long of Georgia, (Standing) Joseph
Rainey and Robert Elliott of South Carolina.  
(1871)
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Sharecroppers and Tennant Farmers
Cotton is no longer King South diversifies
Econonomy
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Collapse of Reconstruction
Amnesty Act states regain right to vote powers
Freedman's Bureau allowed to expire... Southern
Democrats gain more power.
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scandals and money problems

• Credit Moblier
• Republican unity shattered
• Whiskey Ring
• Panic of 1873
• Does not seek reelection in 1876

The Grant Years 1869-1877
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1876 Election
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According to the cartoon, what was the outcome
of President Hayess Let Em Alone policy?
According to the cartoon, what was the of
President Grants government on the South?