Lecture on Reconstruction

1. Reconstruction
Lecture
By: Mr. Gutierrez

2. Standards
• 8.11 Students analyze the character and lasting consequences of reconstruction
• List the original aims of Reconstruction and describe its affects on the political
and social structures of different regions.
• Understand the effects of the Freedman's Bureau and its restrictions placed on
the rights and opportunities of freedom including racial segregation.
• Trace the rise of the KKK and its affects
• Understand the 13,14,15 Amendments of the Constitution.

3. Reconstruction Outline
• Initial aims of Reconstruction vs. reality
• Freedman’s Bureau & Restrictions including segregation
• Rise of the KKK
• 13, 14,15, Amendments

4. In 1865 president Abraham Lincoln was assassinated at
Fords Theatre, by John Wilkes Booth, leaving Andrew
Johnson as the new president.
Lincoln had a plan a Ten Percent Plan for
Reconstruction for admitting the South back
and granting pardons and amnesty. Called for
10% of voters to give an oath of allegiance for
states to be readmitted. Favored minimal
government involvement, did not want to
punish the south.
Reconstruction Aims VS. Reality
Radical Reconstruction (Radical
Republicans)
Congress wanted to punish the
south and passed Amendments to
help African Americans attaint
rights so they could compete in the
economy. Divided the South into 5
districts under military rule.
Abraham Lincoln
Andrew Johnson
John Wilkes Booth

5. Compare and Contrast Lincoln's plan for
Reconstruction of the South vs. the plan that was
implemented. Explain which plan for
Reconstruction would work best? provide details
from the lecture and notes.

6. Video Reconstruction Crash Course U.S History

7. Freedman’s Bureau
Roll Jordon Role Choir “12 years a Slave
Distribute food supplies, establish schools, redistribute
confiscated land to former slaves also provided legal assistance
Could not assist everyone due to budget shortages, political
corruption. Shut down the bureau in 1872
African Americans were pushed into sharecropping, working
the land of others and paying with a percent of their crops,
loaning tools and supplies from land owners ( usually their
former slave owner). This would place many African
Americans in a serf like state where they worked land they
did not own and were buried in debt so they could not
legally leave it.

8. U.S Reconstruction Timeline
1865, 13th
Amendment ends
slavery
establishment of
Freedman’s
Bureau
1865, Lincoln is
assassinated,
Andrew Johnson
becomes
president
1867,
Reconstruction
Act
1868, 14th
Amendment
safeguards
citizenship for
African Americans
1868 Grant
is elected
President
1870, 15th
Amendment
guarantees
suffrage to
African Americans
1865/66
KKK
founded in
Tennessee
1877, Hayes
Elected President
and the end of
Reconstruction
1873 Grant
reelected
1873
Economic
Depression

9. Rise of the KKK
First branch established as a social club made
up of former Confederate Army Veterans in
Tennessee
First leader was Nathanial Bedford Forrest
Charters extended throughout the south by
1870.
Terrorist group than by violence, intimidation
and murder of African Americans, and political
opponents.

10. Evaluate the Freedman’s Bureau, was it affective in
aiding African Americans? Which political
groups/organizations hindered political/social
advancement of African Americans?

11. 13th 14th Amendments
• 13th Amendment “ Neither slavery nor involuntary
servitude, except as a punishment for a crime where
of the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist
within the United States”
• Formally abolished slavery
• 14th Amendment grants citizenship to “All persons
born or naturalized in the United States , forbids
states from denying “ life, liberty or property without
due process of law”, also “ cannot deny any person
within its jurisdiction the equal protection of laws.”

12. 15th Amendment
• 15TH Amendment, guaranteed African American men the right to
vote, “The right of citizens of the United States shall not be denied or
abridged by the United States or by any other state on account of
race, color or previous condition of servitude.”

13. Analyze the 13th, 14th , and 15th amendment:
Who was not included? What groups were
excluded, and why do you think so?

14. Fin• Refernces
• The March to the Sea | Civil War 150 Pinhole
• Projectcivilwar150pinholeproject.com
• http://www.loc.gov/rr/program/bib/ourdocs/13thamendment.html
• https://www.loc.gov/rr/program/bib/ourdocs/14thamendment.html
• https://www.loc.gov/rr/program/bib/ourdocs/15thamendment.html
• http://www.sparknotes.com/history/american/reconstruction/sectio
n1.rhtml