The document discusses the goals of Reconstruction after the Civil War. It presents five potential goals: reunite the nation peacefully, punish political leaders and soldiers of the Confederacy, rebuild the ruined Southern economy, protect the rights of freedmen, and grant compensation to freedmen. Quotes from Abraham Lincoln, Thaddeus Stevens, and Ulysses S. Grant provide perspectives on these goals from key figures during Reconstruction.

1. What was the most important
goal of Reconstruction?
 Reunite nation peacefully?
 Punish political leaders/soldiers?
 Rebuild ruined southern economy?
 Protect rights of freedmen ?
 Grant compensation to freedmen?

2. “With malice toward none, with charity
for all, with firmness in the right as God
gives us to see the right, let us strive on
to finish the work we are in, to bind up
the nation's wounds, to care for him who
shall have borne the battle and for his
widow and his orphan, to do all which
may achieve and cherish a just and
lasting peace among ourselves and with
all nations.” – Abraham Lincoln’s 2nd
Inaugural Address

3. What was the most important
goal of Reconstruction?
 Reunite nation peacefully?
 Punish political leaders/soldiers?
 Rebuild ruined southern economy?
 Protect rights of freedmen ?
 Grant compensation to freedmen?

4. “We hold it to be the duty of the government to inflict
condign punishment on the rebel belligerents, and so
weaken their hands that they can never again endanger the
Union… The whole fabric of southern society must be
changed.... How can republican institutions, free schools,
free churches, free social intercourse exist in a mingled
community of nabobs and serfs; of the owners of twenty
thousand acre manors with lordly palaces, and the
occupants of narrow huts inhabited by "low white trash?"...
The property of the rebels shall pay our national debt, and
indemnify freedmen and loyal sufferers.
- Representative Thaddeus Stevens of Pennsylvania,
1865

5. What was the most important
goal of Reconstruction?
 Reunite nation peacefully?
 Punish political leaders/soldiers?
 Rebuild ruined southern economy?
 Protect rights of freedmen ?
 Grant compensation to freedmen?

6. “Damn the negroes! I am fighting these
traitorous aristocrats, their masters!”
"I intend to confiscate the lands of these rich
men whom I have excluded from pardon by my
proclamation, and divide the proceeds thereof
among the families of the wool hat boys, the
Confederate soldiers, whom these men forced
into battle to protect their property in
slaves."

7. What was the most important
goal of Reconstruction?
 Reunite nation peacefully?
 Punish political leaders/soldiers?
 Rebuild ruined southern economy?
 Protect rights of freedmen ?
 Grant compensation to freedmen?

8. Lecture 17
Reconstruction

9. Congressional Reconstruction
Lecture 17
I. Congressional
Reconstruction
a. Goal 1
b. Goal 2
c. Goal 3
II. Presidential
Reconstruction
III. Effects of
Reconstruction

10. Goal 2
Lecture 17
I. Congressional
Reconstruction
a. Goal 1
b. Goal 2
c. Goal 3
II. Presidential
Reconstruction
III. Effects of
Reconstruction
Wade-Davis
Bill
Reconstruction
Act of 1867

11. Goal 1
Lecture 17
I. Congressional
Reconstruction
a. Goal 1
b. Goal 2
c. Goal 3
II. Presidential
Reconstruction
III. Effects of
Reconstruction
13th , 14th , 15th
Amendments
Civil Rights
Act of 1866
Civil Rights
Act of 1875

12. Goal 3
Lecture 17
I. Congressional
Reconstruction
a. Goal 1
b. Goal 2
c. Goal 3
II. Presidential
Reconstruction
III. Effects of
Reconstruction
Freedmen’s
Bureau
Homestead
Act

13. Presidential reconstruction Reconstruction
Lecture 17
I. Congressional
Reconstruction
II. Presidential
Reconstruction
a. Abraham
Lincoln
b. Andrew
Johnson
c. Ulysses S
Grant
III. Effects of
Reconstruction

14. Lincoln
Lecture 17
I. Congressional
Reconstruction
II. Presidential
Reconstruction
a. Abraham
Lincoln
b. Andrew
Johnson
c. Ulysses S
Grant
III. Effects of
Reconstruction

15. johnson
Lecture 17
I. Congressional
Reconstruction
II. Presidential
Reconstruction
a. Abraham
Lincoln
b. Andrew
Johnson
c. Ulysses S
Grant
III. Effects of
Reconstruction

16. grant
Lecture 17
I. Congressional
Reconstruction
II. Presidential
Reconstruction
a. Abraham
Lincoln
b. Andrew
Johnson
c. Ulysses S
Grant
III. Effects of
Reconstruction