Military Reconstruction & Impeachment
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Congressional Elections of 1866
o Johnson’s Speeches
 Failure
o Charles Sumner
 Head of Radical Republicans in Senate
o Thaddeus Stevens
 Head of Radical Republicans in House
Military Reconstruction
o Reconstruction Act – March 2, 1867
 Five Military Districts
 Disfranchised certain former Confederates
 Readmission of the seceded states
 Ratify the Fourteenth Amendment
 Guarantee in state constitution full suffrage for former adult male
slaves.
o Fifteenth Amendment
 Passed by Congress in 1869
 Ratified in 1870
 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
Effect on Women’s Right Movements
o Elizabeth Cady Stanton
o Susan B. Anthony
o Woman’s Loyal League
o Fourteenth Amendment
Southern Blacks & Government
o Union League
o Roles for Women
o Hiram Revels
o Blanch K. Bruce
“Scalawags”
o Southerners
“Carpetbaggers”
o Northerners
Radical Governments
o Successes
 Public Schools
 Tax reform
 Public Works
 Property Rights
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o Corruption
“Invisible Empire of the South”
o Klu Klux Klan
o TN 1866
o Acts of Terror
o Force Acts 1870-1871
Andrew Johnson vs. Congress
o Ben Wade of Ohio
o Tenure of Office Act
o Edwin M. Stanton
 Secretary of War
o Impeachment
 Benjamin F. Butler
 Thaddeus Stevens
 May 16, 1868
 Not Guilty
The Alaska Purchase
o William Seward
Nebraska Becomes a State (1867)
Election of 1868
o Republicans - Ulysses Grant
o Democrats - Horatio Seymour
o “Waving the Bloody Shirt”
 Benjamin F. Butler
o “Vote as You Shot”