The Problems of Peace -Southerners remained defiant although crops and farms were destroyed -The slaves were free -Cities were bombed out
Freedmen Define Freedom -After Civil War some stayed loyal to their owners while -Others pillaged their own land and whipped their owners -Blacks still faced severe discrimination
The Freedman's Bureau -Freedman's Bureau was set up on March 3, 1865 to train the unskilled and illerate freed blacks -Taught 200,000 blacks how to read -Expired in 1872 after criticism form racist whites
Johnson: The Tailor President -Ander Johnson came from a poor beginning and erved in Congress for many years -Never earned the trust of the North and never regained the confidence of the South
Presidential Reconstruction -Southern states could be reintergrated into the Union if and when they has 10% of its votes pledge oath to the Union and acknowledge the emancipation of slaves=Ten Percent Plan -Wade-Davis Bill required 50% of the states' voters to take oaths of allegiance and demanded stronger safeguards for emancipation=vetoed by Lincoln
The Baleful Black Codes -Black coes were laws aimed at keeping the balck population in submission
Congressional Reconstruction -Republicans passed legislation that favored the North such as the Morril Tariff, The Pacific Act, and the Homestead Act -Blacks now counted as a whole person instead of the 3/5 of the population Union was restored on Dec 6, 1865
Johnson Clashes with Congress -Johnson vetoed the Civil Rights Bill -Republicans wough to instill the same ideas as the Civil Rights Bill with the 14th Amendment
Republican Principles and Programs -Charles Sumner was the radical leader of Senate -Thaddeus Stevens was the radical leader of the House
Reconstruction by Sword -14th Amendment make all blacks citizems -Passed by Congress in 1869 the 15th Amendment gave blackes the right to vote
No Women Voters -Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony campaigned against the 14th and 15th Amendment for specific resons
The Realities of Radical Reconstruction in the South -Black men began to hold politcal like Hiram Revels and Blanche K Bruce
The Ku Klux Klan -Founded in Tennessee in 1866 -it was an organization that scared blacks into not voting or seeking jobs -Invisible Empire of the South
Johnson Walks the Impeachment Plank -Congress passed the Tenure of Office Act in 1867 -"high crimes and misdemeanors"
A Not-Guilty Verdict for Johnson -Johnson was acquitted of all charges by a single vote
The Purchase of Alaska -Sec. of State WIlliam H. Seward bought Alaska form Russia in 1867 fir $7.2 million
The Heritage of Reconstruction -Reconstruction was regarded by many Southerners as worse thann the war itself
