The End of Reconstruction

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The End of Reconstruction
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Overview of Principal Reconstruction Proposals
and Plans

• 1864-1865 Lincolns 10 plan
• 1865 13th amendment
• 1865-1866 Johnsons version of Lincolns
  proposal
• 1866-1867 Congressional Plan 10 plan with
  14th amendment
• 1867-1877 Military Reconstruction (Congress)
  14th amendment plus black suffrage later
  established nationwide by the 15th amendment.
• Compromise of 1876 ends Reconstruction

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The Meaning of Freedom

• African-Americans
• First steps in finding freedom
• Assistance to freed persons

4
Southern whites respond to emancipation

• White leaders want
• Black Codes
• Former Confederate Leaders

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Attacks against Reconstruction

• Political Attacks
• Violence
• Congressional Response
• By 1872

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The End of Reconstruction

• Northern interest wanes
• Original Radical Republicans had died out
• Corruption scandals in President Grants
  administration
• Recession of 1873
• Idealism of creating a nation where whites and
  blacks are treated equally (at least in politics
  and law) hard to keep going
• Compromise of 1877
• Results