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