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Reconstruction
Black codes
Carpetbaggers
Scalawags
Waving the Bloody Shirt

2. Reconstruction

3. • Reconstruction – a period after the Civil War
to rebuild the country

4. • Life after the war in the North was not much
different from life before the war
• The south was in bad shape
• The money in the South was worthless

6. • What was the South going to do with the
freedmen?

7. • Reconstruction is
divided into three
parts:
1. Presidential
Reconstruction
2. Radical
Reconstruction
3. Bourbon
Reconstruction

8. Presidential Reconstruction
• Directed by President Lincoln and President
Johnson

9. Lincoln’s ten percent plan
• States could reestablish their
government once 10%
of population took
oath of allegiance
• A very lenient plan

10. • Tennessee, Arkansas and Louisiana met these
terms and were ready to rejoin the Union.
• Radical Republicans refused to admit them.

11. Wade Davis Bill
• Majority of white males had to take oath of
allegiance
• Confederate leaders could not hold office
• Denied them right of suffrage
• Much more radical plan

12. • Johnson basically used Lincoln’s plan

13. • Johnson started his plan while Congress was
not in session.
– Gave amnesty to Southerners who took an oath of
loyalty
– Had to ratify the 13th Amendment
– 10% had to take loyalty oath

14. • Congress refused to seat members from the
newly “reconstructed” states

15. Then Johnson’s temper got in the way!

16. Why Northern Republicans were mad
with the plan:
1. Confederates were being elected to office
2. They felt the land of the big landholders
should be divided between former slaves
3. Worried the Southern Democrats would gain
control of Congress
4. Wanted blacks to have full citizenship rights

17. • Black codes – laws established in the south to
restrict the rights of newly freed slaves.
• Southerners argued that the black codes
prevented the chaos that could have come
from freeing 4 million slaves at once.