Civil War
And Reconstruction
Breaking Up a Nation and Trying
to Mend It Back Together
Civil War – Southern States Leave
• Lincoln Gets Elected
–Seven southern states seceded from the
Union in protest against the election
winner
–He had not won any votes from the
southern states
Reconstruction
• The Good
– Free public education for African-Americans and
whites in the South
– Most of the states of the former Confederacy, in
order to regain admission to the Union, were
required to ratify the Fourteenth Amendment
– The innovation had the greatest impact on
westward migration immediately after the Civil War
transcontinental railroad
– At the end of the Civil War, industry in the United
States was booming as a result of war profits and
business leadership
Reconstruction Con’t
• The Bad
– As a result of the Civil War and Reconstruction, the
South would finish the 19th century and enter the
20th century as economically depressed
– The desire to establish military posts contributed to
the forced removal of Native Americans from the
Great Plains from 1867 to 1890
Reconstruction Con’t
• The Ugly
– Southern state governments tried to weaken
President Johnson’s Reconstruction plan by
passing black codes
– Southern states were allowed to make their own
decisions about segregation legislation therefore
the 14th amendment was not successful
implemented
– Ku Klux Klan affect the South because it helped the
reverse Reconstruction in the South