south, reconstruction, grant, johnson

1. A nation split apart must bind itself together.

2. What did Lincoln Want?
 Ten Percent Plan (1863)

3. Radical Republicans
 Thaddeus Stevens
 Charles Sumner
Wade-Davis Bill (1864)
 Congress in charge of Recon.
 Pocket veto

4. Who the heck is Andrew
Johnson?
 Lincoln VP
 Tennessee; Unionist
 Democrat
 Similar to Lincoln’s plan

6. Impeachment of Johnson
 Tenure of Office Act
 Johnson fires Stanton
 Impeached
 Senate does not convict

7. Election of Grant -- 1868
 “waiving the bloody shirt”
 Republican presidents until 1884
 African-Americans vote Republican

8. Civil War Amendments
 13th:
 14th:
 15th:

9. What Needs to Be
Reconstructed?

10. The Post-War South:
Destroyed…
 Physically:
 Economically:
 Psychologically:

11. Scalawags & Carpetbaggers
 Scalawags:
 Carpetbaggers:

14. What challenges do former slaves
face?

15. What’s going to happen to freed
slaves?
Education
 80% of freed Af-Am over age of 20 illiterate by 1870
 Hampton Institution, Virginia
Politics
 Freeborn and former slaves hold local, state, and federal
office
 SC: black majority in state legislature
 AF-Am ministers emerge as political leaders

16. Students in a Math class at
Hampton University -- 1899

17. Hiram Revels
 First Af-American Senator
 Mississippi (1870-1871)

18. “Forty Acres & A Mule”
 Sherman’s Field Order 15:
 Stevens urges confiscation
& redistribution
 Congress fails to pass
effective land-reform

19. Slavery Without the Slaves
 Sharecropping:

21. Anti-Black Violence: The KKK
Ku Klux Klan http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YLN7PBIdRsM (10:13-18:15)
-- Terrorist organization; white supremacy
 Goals:
 Methods:

22. Why does the North lose
interest?

23. Grant’s Scandals
Credit Mobilier
 Company skimming profits from
gov’t contracts
Whiskey Ring
 IRS takes bribes from distillers
who avoid paying taxes

24. Economic Problems
Panic of 1873
 Over-speculation -- “boom and bust”
 5 year depression
Gold Question
 Should the gov’t print “easy money”?

25. His Fraudulency
 Hayes (R-OH) loses popular vote
to Tilden (D-NY)
 Tilden does not win Electoral
College
 Hayes is the President. What?
Bargain of 1877
 Federal troops out of South
 RR from Texas to the West
 Southerner in the Cabinet

27. Thus endeth Reconstruction…
How’d We
Do?