RECONSTRUCTION
-battle between the President and Congress after Civil
War to restore the Union.
1) How would South come back?
2) What terms would be placed on them?
Presidential 1863-67
Congressional(Radical)67-77
10% plan
Punish the South
Lenient
Treat them like conquered
enemy
Bring country back Submit to military rule, ratify
together
14th, rights to African
Americans
Reconstruction in the South
Radical Republicans divided the South into 5 military
districts to protect freedmen and enforce new laws.
Important Amendments
13th
14th
Abolished slavery Equal rights,
recognized
citizenship
15th
Former slaves
could vote.
(Males)
Carpetbaggers were northerners who came down south
to help with newly freed African Americans. Make money
Scalawags were southerners who sympathized with
former slaves.
The Ku Klux Klan committed acts of violence and
intimidation against carpetbaggers, scalawags, and
freedman.
Southern reactionBlack Codes
Restricted rights of
freedmen.
Overturned by Congress
Plessy v Ferguson
Separate but equal was
LEGAL..
Jim Crow laws kept races
separate in South.
North’s response
Freedman’s Bureau
Call for Education
Assisted blacks in transition Men like Booker T
to freedom. Employment, Washington and W.E.B
housing, and education
Dubois
Booker T
Washington
W.E.B.
Dubois
believed in
vocational
education.
believed in liberal
arts education.
Same as whites
Tuskegee Institute
Later founded
NAACP
Bringing an end to Reconstruction…
Election of 1876 Tilden (southerners supported)
Hayes (northerners supported)
Tilden won POPULAR vote, Hayes ELECTORAL vote.
A Special Commission elected HAYES President …in the
COMPROMISE OF 1877
The Compromise …
 Hayes wins Presidency
 Troops removed from South
 With removal of troops, south returns to old
redemption governments and home rule.