Chapter 5 Reconstruction 1865-1877

Student Outline

Mr. Reints

U.S. History

Reconstruction:

    1865-1877:  Involved Four american presidents

Main Idea:  Lincoln's and Johnson's Reconstruction plans focused on pardoning the Confederate states and restoring the Union quickly.

I.  The Wars Aftermath

    Physical Toll:

    Human Toll:

    Southern Hardships:

        1.  Black Southerners-

        2.  Plantation Owners-

        3.  Poor white southerners-

    Changing Plantation

        Differences-

II.  Two Reconstruction Plans

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    Lincoln's Plan

        Ten Percent Plan for Reconstruction

            1.  pardon-

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                    -Opposers

                        Wade-Davis Act

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Johnson's Plan

        Andrew Johnson

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        Presidential Reconstruction

The Taste of Freedom

        -Freedom Movement

        -Freedom to Own Land

        -Freedom to Worship

        -Freedom to Learn

        -Freedmen's Bureau

Section 2:  Congressional Reconstruction

As southern states moved to limit freedmen's rights, Congress took over Reconstruction and passed new laws to protect African Americans' freedom.

Black Codes

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Turning Point:  Fourteenth Amendment

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        fourteenth amendment

Radical Reconstruction

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The Fifteenth Amendment

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Section 3:  "New South"

The end of slavery brought about new patterns of agriculture in the South, while expansion of cities and industries led to limited economic growth.

Sharecropping

Tenant Farming

Effects on South

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Rise of Cities and Industry in the South

Section 4 End of Reconstruction

In the 1870's, white Democrats regained power in the South, and white Republican interest in Reconstruction declined.

Klux Klux Klan

End of Reconstruction

Compromise of 1877

Success of Reconstruction

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Failures of Reconstruction

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