Reconstruction after civil war

What were the economic costs of the war?

3.3 billion dollars in one year. Income tax started

What was in the wade davis bill?

Called for majority of voters to take the oath

13th admendment

End slavery

Who was Matthew Brady ?

Famous civil war photographer

Significance of Lincoln's death?

First Assassination of a president

Andrew Johnson

First president to get impeached

What is impeachment?

Formally charge an official with misconduct in office

How did they make it possible to change southern society ?

Friedman's bureau -Food, schools, offices, jobs

What year did all the remaining confederate states renter the union ?

1870

What gaps were created between the north and the south ?

18 percent national wealth gap. 30 percent averaged earned gap

What are the dates of reconstruction ?

1865-1877

Ulysses S Grant

500,000 southern black votes ; involved in scandals

How many blacks registered and voted

90percent and 90 percent of those voted

What started theKKK

African Americans getting involved in politics

What was the purpose of the Friedman's bureau ?

Assisted freed men with food, jobs, healthcare , and school

Churches

Baptists, Methodist

Why did white southerners turn to violence?

Black people were participating in politics

Why were churches and ministers important to black people

Churches were principal institutions that black propel could control. Ministers were influential community leaders

14th amendment

Citizenship

How did Grant get elected ?

Confederate generals couldn't vote. War hero of the union. 500,000 blacks voted for him

What was Johnson's reconstruction plan ?

Confederate state could be readmitted if they agree to thirteenth amendment, take back secession, and nullify their debts

What was the Wade Davis Bill

Congress idea- majority percent POCKET VETO

What was home rule

Democratic way of state government and no federal intervention. This destroyed African Americans

What happened for the first time in history in the election of 1877

Hayes won the presidency but lost the popular vote

How can the southern society change?

Help African Americans, especially males to be equal to white southern males (radical republicans )

Explain Lincoln's ten percent plan

If 10 percent of citizens in the confederate state had to take an oath of alligence , then they could be form a states government and be represented in congress

What role did photography play in the war?

Let the public see from soldiers perspective

Rutherford

Lost popular vote, won electoral vote

Why wasn't Johnson found guilty ?

One vote short of 2/3 majority needed to impeach

How did economic pressure keep black people from voting

People wouldn't hire them if they voted

Why was Johnson impeached ?

Radicals wanted to impeach him because he kept vetoing everything. Congress passed a tenure act and Johnson went against it

What is reconstruction goal?

Readmit the seceded Southern states into the Union

Compromise of 1877

Removal of federal troops

15th amendment

Right to vote

How can South change the economy?

Sharecropping, no slavery, black codes

Johnson's plan?

Similar to Lincoln's overrode but congress

How did the northern economy boom after the Civil War?

Sold war supplies made in the north to the government

How can reconstruction occur?

South will have to rebuild destroyed economy and property

What happened in the compromise of 1877?

Southern states aren't controlled by military

Scalawags

Southern whites who supported Republican policy through reconstruction

What was Lincoln's plan to readmit the confederate states

Ten percent plan

How did the power of the federal government change after the civil war

The federal government assumed supreme national authority

What reconstruction act passes?

The reconstruction act of congress - divided remaining ten states into five military districts with one general over each - treating them as captured land and prisoners of war

Why did African Americans leave the plantations ?

They associated it with oppression and wanted new jobs. Also looked for family

Why did president Lincoln think there needed to be a 13 amendment

To abolish slavery everywhere

How did the southern economy get destroyed ?

Took away cheap labor source(slaves) , wiped out 40 percent of livestock , destroyed farm machinery and railroads, left thousands of acres uncultivated

KKK goals and methods

Used terrorist tactics to restore white supremacy

Who were radical republicans ?

Wanted to destroy the political power of former slave holders and give black people citizenship and the right to vote

How did Lincoln feel about the south returning to the union ?

Wanted to make it quick and painless because he didn't even recognize secession ALSO if he makes it long and painful then it will result in delay anger, and resentment

What was sharecropping

White landowners would give black people lan in return for the crops (not fair)

Carpetbagger

White northern who voted republican and moved to the south

How and why did education increase in African Americans

Why- they used to get punished for learning. How- organizations like Friedman's bureau assisted

What was the civil rights act of 1866?

all US citizens had equal rights under the law JOHNSON VETOED IT BUT CONGRESS OVERRODE