Unit 7
Unit 1
Hanging of former Confederate commander
of Andersonville, GA prison camp
Nov., 1865
Richmond, 1865
Richmond 1865
Columbia: SC, 1865
Presidential Reconstruction
1.
Lincoln’s 10% plan
 Pardon and oath—establish
a new government
2.
Congress’s Wade-Davis Bill
 Ironclad Oath
 Strip ex-confeds of rights
3.
Johnson’s plan
 Ratification, amnesty
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December 1865
Johnson announces the Union is restored
Radical Reconstruction
Charles Sumner and Thaddeus Stevens
 Freedmen’s Bureau
 Reconstruction
Amendments
 Reconstruction Acts
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 Military districts, no-ex
confeds in gov’t,
ratification of 14th, new
state constitutions

Tenure of Office Act—Impeachment of
Johnson
Implementing Reconstruction
Republicans, Democrats,
Freedmen
 Carpetbaggers, scalawags
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 Culture and investment

New voters, legislators and
politics
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Ease Black Codes
Civil Rights Act 1875
Public works
Institutional reform
State constitutions
Section 4
What New South?
Henry Grady’s vision
 New economy
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 Railroads, industrial capitalism

Lost Cause and Redeemers
 Re-establishment of conservative rule
One-party state
 Reform and
immigration
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Now that We are Free
Black Codes to Jim Crow
 Scourge of sharecropping
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 Crop-lien system
Land and labor
 Votes and Office
 Freedmen’s
Savings and
Trust
 Churches, schools, pride
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Section 4
Hard Economic Times
Economy “corrected” after the
massive spending during war
 1869 Black Friday
 Crash and Panic of 1873
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 Northern Pacific
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Banks closed, credit dried up,
unemployment soared
 Depression

Freedmen’s Savings and Trust
went bankrupt
Corruption and Scandal

Grant’s administration
plagued by ineptitude,
cronyism and scandals
 Poor appointments
 Black Friday
 Credit Mobilier
 Whiskey Ring
 Indian Ring
 Shielded friends, relatives
Terror, Violence and Repression
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Black Codes, Jim Crow and Segregation
 Hall v. DeCuir (1878)
Amnesty Act (1872)
 Miss. Plan
 Rise of KKK
 Enforcement Acts
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 SC Habeas Corpus
Election of 1876
19 Electoral votes in
several states disputed
 Back room negotiations
gave 1 vote advantage
to Hayes (R)
 “Compromise of 1877”
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 republicans agreed to
remove troops from the
South
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Reconstruction ends
(1865-1877)