Standard SSUSH 10
The student will identify legal, political, and social dimensions of
Reconstruction.
a) Compare and contrast Presidential Reconstruction with Radical
Republican Reconstruction.
b) Explain efforts to redistribute land in the South among the former slaves
and provide advanced education [Morehouse College] and describe the
role of the Freedmens Bureau.
c) Describe the significance of the 13
th
Amendment, 14
th
Amendment, and
15
th
Amendment.
d) Explain the Black Codes, the Ku Klux Klan (KKK), and other forms of
resistance to racial equality during Reconstruction.
e) Explain Andrew Johnsons impeachment in relationship to Reconstruction.
f) Analyze how the presidential election of 1876 and the subsequent
Compromise of 1877 marked the end of Reconstruction.
Presidential Radical Republican
Lenient on allowing Southern
states to re-enter.
It only punished the higher
officers of the Confederate Army.
Wanted to punish ALL of those
who fought for the South.
Wanted to have military rule in
the South. The military would
appoint governors to control
different sections of the South.
Presidential Reconstruction
Abraham Lincoln
10% Plan
Lincolns ideas
South could not legally leave, so they never really
did.
Southern states should be admitted back into the
union as easily and quickly as possible
Lincolns Assassination ended any chance for
Southern states to be treated leniently by the
North.
Presidential Reconstruction
Andrew Johnson
Johnsons Reconstuction Plans
Very similar to Lincolns
Most Southern States readmitted under Johnsons Plans
Johnson sought to punish only rich plantation owners he
blamed them for the war
Used pardon power of President for many ex=confederates
Radical Republican Reconstruction
After Lincoln Assassination
Radical Republicans take over Congress and
Reconstruction Plans
Places South under military rule
Forces South to approve Civil War Amendments
Requires majority of Southern voters to take an oath
of allegiance
Placed in power Republican State Governments
throughout the South
First time ever Black elected officials in southern
State Governments
Andrew Johnsons Impeachment
Conflict over who in charge of Reconstruction
President Johnson vs. Radical Republican Congress
Johnson vetoes Radical Republican Reconstruction laws
Johnson ignores Tenure of Office Act
First time President ever impeached in American History
Impeachment of Andrew
Johnson
He violated the Bogus Tenure of Office Act.
He fired Stanton who was the Sec. of War without
permission from the Senate.
Civil War Amendments
13
th
Amendment
Ended slavery in all of America
Emancipation Proclamation ended slavery only in the
South
14
th
Amendment
Designed to provide political equality for former
slaves [did not work until 1964]
15
th
Amendment
Designed to ensure voting rights for former slaves
[did not work until 1965]
Morehouse College
College exemplifies legacy of Freedmens
Bureau Educational opportunities
Morehouse College
Freedmans Bureau
The Bureau
supervised all of the
relief programs for
the freed men.
They issued rations,
clothing, and
medicine.
Freedmens Bureau
Government agency created to help former slaves
in the South
Provided immediate aid - food, shelter, clothes
Protected former slaves in labor contracts
Lasting legacy educational opportunities via the
establishment of schools and colleges
Black Codes
Laws enacted by Southern governments after
Reconstruction
Laws designed to humiliate and subjugate
former slaves
Ku Klux Klan [KKK]
White supremacy group formed during the
Reconstruction Era
Goals
keep former slaves from voting
Intimidate northerners from helping former slaves
Reinstate Democrat/white state governments
