SOL: VUS.7a,b,c
Economic Impacts
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The South lay
decimated after the
war.
Many farms, RR’s,
cities are ruined.
The North saw an
economic boom.
Industry was strong
and growing from
producing war-time
supplies.
Results of Emancipation of
Slaves
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Many ex-slaves moved
north
Church became a focus of
black communities
(Baptists)
Education, selfimprovement, schoolhouses, and teachers
Those that remained in the
South tried to get their own
land to farm on.
When they couldn’t find
land they resorted to
sharecropping and tenant
farming.
Migrating South
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A group of people
known as “Carpet
Baggers” begin
moving to the South.
They moved for:
 Claim land
 Teachers to educate
ex-slaves
 Help rebuild the
South
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Hated by
southerners
Freedmen’s Bureau
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Organized by
President Lincoln in
March of 1865
Provided food,
clothing, medical
care, and education
Educated slaves
and helped them
find work.
Was most effective
in education
Black Codes
First passed in Miss.
1865
 Objective was to
maintain the race
relations between
Blacks and Whites.
(Whites as superior)
 Forbade all blacks from
serving on a jury
 Some states wouldn’t
allow blacks to rent or
lease land but would
pass laws against
“idleness” and were
punished.
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Ku Klux Klan
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Former Confederate
soldiers
Bitter, angry,
southerners
Founded in
Tennessee in 1866
Flogged, mutilated,
murdered blacks.
Intimidated blacks at
the voting poles,
attacked the carpet
baggers from the
north.
Civil Rights Bill of 1866
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With Republicans
(anti-slavery) in
majority in congress
they pass the Civil
Rights bill in
response to the
Black Codes.
Grants full
citizenship rights for
blacks.
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Afraid that future
Democrats in
congress would
overturn it they
passed the 14th
amendment making
it constitutional law.
Radical Republicans Take Over
Reconstruction: 1867
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Radical Republicans
wanted to punish the
south after the Civil
War.
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Reconstruction Act
1867
 South was divided into
5 military districts
 Each district
commanded by a Union
General
 Sent Union soldiers to
the South to ensure that
Blacks were being
registered to vote.
 They were also to
protect ex-slaves from
violence from groups
such as the KKK.
Military Reconstruction
Radical Republicans vs.
President Johnson
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The Radical
Republicans hated
President Johnson
who repeatedly
vetoed any legislation
they attempted to
pass.
To demonstrate their
check over the
President they
overrode many of the
vetoes by the
President.
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The Tenure of Office
Act was passed to
limit the power of the
President.
Congress brought
impeachment charges
against President
Johnson for violating
this act.
Migrating West
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The completion of
the Transcontinental
RR influenced
continued westward
migrations and
immigration.