This Day in History

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This Day in History

• Oct 1st, 1971 Walt Disney World opened in
  Orlando, Florida.

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Chap 12

• Reconstruction

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I. Reconstruction Plans

• b. Radical Republicans.
• 1. Punish the South
• 2. Black Suffrage
• 3. Wade-Davis Bill- 50 loyalty.
• 4. 1865 13th Amendment-Abolish slavery

• Lincolns Plan
• 10 Percent Plan, make it as easy.

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• c. Johnsons Plan
• No need for 10 percent, as long as they abolished
  slavery. (13th Amendment)

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• II. Reconstruction Realities
• A. Black Codes
• Laws limiting 4 million former slaves
• KKK
• B. Freedmans Bureau
• 1. provide food, shelter, education.

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• C. Taking Advantage
• 1. Carpetbaggers- people moving South looking
  for a quick buck, or Political Office.
• 2. Scalawags- Southern Whites that supported
  Republican Party and Reconstruction.

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• D. Congress Steps in
• 1. 14th Amendment (1868)-All persons born in
  United States were citizens. Also prevents former
  CSA from holding political office.

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• 2. 1867, Military Reconstruction Act, Split South
  into five military zones. (run by Sec. of War
  Edwin Stanton)
• 3. 1867 Tenure Act.

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• 4. Pres. Johnson fires Edwin Stanton.
• 5. House of Representatives files impeachment
  charges.

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• III. 1868 election
• Grant wins.
• 1. 15th Amendment passage (1870)--no citizen
  could be denied the right to vote based on color
  or race or previous servitude.

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• B. Compromise of 1877
• Samuel Tilden(D) vs Rutherford B. Hayes.
• Disputed results in Louisiana, Florida, and South
  Carolina. (for Rutherford B. Hayes)

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• 3. South agrees to Hayes win if North pulls out
  last of Federal troops from South.

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• C. Success
• Union restored
• 13th, 14th and 15th Amendment.
• Freedmans Bureau.
• D. Failures
• bitter toward government
• slow to rebuild.
• KKK
• No womens suffrage.