RECONSTRUCTION: Johnson’s Reconstruction Plan
Pardoned Southern who swore
Study Guide allegiance to the US
Permitted States to hold a
constitutional convention
States required => to void
POST CIVIL WAR SOUTH Succession abolish slavery and
the south is a mess ratify the 13th Amendment
- 1/5 of all white men died THEN States could hold
- 1/3 southern men were killed or election => resume
severely wounded participation in the US
- 2/3 of all southern shipping
destroyed
13th Amendment
- >9000 miles of railroad
- THE VALUE OF SOUTHERN Amendment = a formal change to the
FARM PROPERTY HAD US Constitution
DROPPED BY 70%
- 3 billion dollar of slave labor Radical Republicans wanted to
lost change the Constitution to
disallow slavery …
LINCOLN’S
RECONSTRUCTION PLAN SECTION 1:
- Abolish slavery
Confedered who took loyalty to
- Abolish involuntary servitude
the Union => Pardoned
=> except as punishment for a
Denied pardons to Confederate crime
who killed Blacks POWs
IF 10% of the population swore
loyalty to the Union => state Black Codes
allowed to hold the Laws that restricted freedmen’s rights
Constitution
THEN hold elections => Curfews
resume full participation in the Vagrancy Laws
United States. - no working could lead to
fines, whipping or being for
Lincoln’s Assassination a year’s worth of labor
Labor Contracts
John Wilkes Boothe kill - if you quit your job hallway
Lincoln through the year, you lost
all your wages
Limits on Women’s Rights Literacy Test
- mothers were forced to do
farm labor
Land Restriction
Poll Tax
- freed people would only
rent land or homes in rural
areas aka plantation Freedom of/to…
Movement
Radical Republicans Worship
Education
Passed a civil rights act => stop
- 90% of black adults were
the black coder
illiterate
- Johnson Vetoed it
- illegal to educate slaves
Own Land
14th Amendment - 40 Acres and a Mule
People born in the US are (William T Sherman)
citizens Vote
States have to respect rights
and privileges of citizens Freedman’s Bureau
States must respect the right to Government agency designed
life a, liberty and property to help black southerners adjust
to Freedom
Reconstruction act of 1867 Gave clothing, medicine, food
Puts South under military rule and war refugees
Impeach Carpet Baggers
Impeach Johnson Northern Republicans who
=> Republicans hate him moved to the postwar South
Insult: Made fun of their cheap
Ulysses S. Grant luggage, which was made out
of Carpet Scraps
True Hero of Abolitionism Stereotype: Greedy men, trying
Republicans voted for Grant to to take advantage of the
the elections weakened South and make
money easily and with little
15th Amendment effort
All Men can vote Actually: Mostly Honest Men
and Woman
Scalawags White Supremacy
Republicans who were white The belief that people of
Southern Anglo-Saxon descent are
Seen as traitors by the majority superior in every way to any
of the South other race
Old Whig members who - intelligence
opposed secession, or small - physical abilities
farmers who hated wealthy - metaphysical attributes
planters (pride, honor, loyalty,
Mainly poor virtue)
Extended response questions:
Sharecropping 1. How did Lincoln and Johnson’s
Landowner provide the land plan for reconstruction differ?
Sharecroppers provide the labor What similarities did they
Landowner Closely Supervised have? Which plan was easier in
the Sharecroppers your opinion, and why?
- Heavy punishments 2. What was the ultimate goal of
At the end of the season, the the 13 Amendment? Was it
th
landowner keeps ½-2/3 of the completely successful, (please
grown crops provide evidence to support
Sharecropper gets the your claim)? How do the 14 th
remainder and 15 Amendments relate to
th
- Has to pay for renting a the 13 Amendment? Were they
th
house from the Landowner more or less successful? How
- Has to pay for seat do you know?
- Some even viced before 3. What were the purposes of
pay day Black Codes? Please provide
several examples to illustrate
your point. Were they effective
in accomplishing their goals?
What was done to try and stop
Tenant Farming them?
1875, white tenant farmers 4. What were Carpetbaggers and
picked 40% of the cotton why were they headed to the
South? How do they compare
Racism to Scalawags? Were the
stereotypes about these two
The hating of someone simply groups true? Explain the
because of his or her ethnicity
Stereotype and the Truth
behind it.
5. Some claim the Ku Klux Klan
was a domestic terrorist
organization. Is this true or
false? Please focus on the root
word of terrorism. What were
the goals of this organization?
How did it go about achieving
those goals? Please provide a
specific example based on
KKK activities.
Goal of the Ku Klux Klan
Who was in the Ku Klux Klan?
Who did the Ku Klux Klan
target?
How did the Klan achieve its
goals?
What responses were there to
the Ku Klux Klan?
