The End of the Civil War

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The End of the Civil War

• Reconstruction and Reunification
• Learning Target I can explain the post war
  challenges facing the nation.

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Set Questions

1. What does the word emancipate mean?
2. How was the Souths economy and infrastructure
   affected by the war?
3. What side did African Americans troops fight in
   large numbers for?
4. After the First Battle of Bull Run both sides
   realized what?
5. Who is remembered for his march to the sea?
6. Due to the Civil War did the Confederate States
   gain independence?

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The War Ends

• Lee surrenders to Grant
• Appomattox Court House 4/29/1865
• The war is over, the rebels are our countrymen
  again.
• -Ulysses S Grant

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To Continue?????

• Some Southern leaders want to continue the war
• Lee decided against this
• Why did the South lose
• Factories
• Manpower
• Railroads

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The Wars Toll

• Around 620,000 Americans died
• 260,000 Confederacy
• 360,000 Union
• 37,000 African Americans

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Question

• How could the North have won if it suffered so
  many more casualties?
• Higher Population
• Immigration

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The Wars Toll

• The South was DEVASTATED
• Factories and Cities were burned
• Railroad tracks and farms were destroyed
• Working age men were killed or wounded

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Lincolns Plan

• Lincoln wanted a Soft Policy towards the South
• Wants to win over Southerners and their leaders
• Ten Percent Plan
• As soon as 10 of the States voters swore an
  oath of loyalty to the Federal Government that
  state could again send representatives to congress

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Lincolns Assassination

• Assassinated April 14, 1865 at Fords Theatre in
  Washington D.C. by
• John Wilkes Booth

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The Freedmens Bureau

• Created by Congress in 1865
• Help emergency relief for freed slaves
• Education
• Housing
• Jobs

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The Thirteenth Amendment

• Approved January 1865
• Bans both slavery and all kinds of forced labor
• Throughout the ENTIRE nation
• Question What is the difference between the
  13th amendment and the Emancipation Proclamation?
• 13th Amendment ends slavery everywhere in the
  country
• Emancipation Proclamation ends slavery only in
  the rebelling states

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The Fourteenth Amendment

• Granted Citizenship to ALL people born or
  naturalized in the United States
• Why did I capitalize ALL?
• This now includes African Americans.
• What states would try to take citizenship rights
  away and from whom?
• The South was trying to stop African Americans
  from becoming citizens.

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The Fifteenth Amendment

• Prohibits all states from denying voting rights
  on account of race, color, or previous condition
  of servitude.
• Why would southern states try to block African
  Americans from voting?
• They did not want the African American voters
  from electing officials that would help them.

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Problems in the South

• Even after the 13th and 14th amendment racial
  discrimination persisted
• Segregation in public places and schools

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Segregation
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Segregation
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The Klu Klux Klan

• The KKK and other radical groups start up in the
  South
• Many Southern whites are appalled at now being
  equal to African Americans in the eyes of the
  law.
• These groups tried to intimidate African
  Americans from voting and taking an active role
  in public life.

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The Civil Rights Movement

• Start in the 1950s by prominent African American
  social leaders.
• Civil Disobedience
• Marches
• Sit Ins
• Rosa Parks

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Martin Luther King Jr.
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Sit Ins
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Marches
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Separate but Equal? Little Rock 9
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Integration