Military
Reconstruction
Ms. Moran
Military Reconstruction
• Congress Votes down Johnson’s plan
• Confederacy divided into 5 sections. Each state
was required to do certain things to be
readmitted into the Union
Congress vs. Johnson
• Disagreed
• Secretary of War, Edwin Stanton agreed with
Congress’s Reconstruction plan
• Johnson was not allowed to fire Stanton
because Congress passes the Tenure of Office
Act
• Johnson fires him anyway
Impeachment
• Remember what impeachment REALLY MEANS
• Put on trial but wins by one vote
• Johnson stayed in office but had little power
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15
Amendment
•
Ratified in 1870.
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The right of citizens of the United States to vote
shall not be denied or abridged by the United
States or by any state on account of race, color, or
previous condition of servitude.
•
The Congress shall have power to enforce this
article by appropriate legislation.
Amnesty Act of 1872
• All white Southern ex-Confederates can vote
and hold public office.
• How will this impact on voting in the South??
Radical Reconstruction
• Civil authorities in the territories were subject to
military supervision.
• Required new state constitutions to include
black suffrage and ratification of the 13th and 14th
Amendments.
• In March, 1867, Congress passed an act that authorized
the military to enroll eligible black voters and begin the
process of constitution making.
The South reacts
• Black codes are set up
Purpose:
• Prevent African Americans from achieving
social, political, and economic equality.
• Forced many blacks to become
sharecroppers [tenant farmers].
• Cause Moderate and Radical Republicans
to unite
Let’s take a look at how
Freedmen were seen in the South