To Begin…

1. To Begin… • Please pull out your notes from last class. • Reminders: • Fr. 11/11: Debate and Supplemental Summaries • Tu. 11/15: Exam 3, Unit 3 Reading Journals, Exam 2 Corrections • Th. 11/17: Biography Project Final Draft

2. Reconstruction Plans • Presidential Plans • Ideology – quick and painless • Lincoln’s 10% Plan (1863) • 10% of voters had to pledge allegiance to the Union and to uphold emancipation. • Temporary exclusion of Confederates • Johnson’s Plan (1865) • Lowered pledge % • Disenfranchised ex-Confederates (but some could be pardoned) • Ratify 13th Amendment • Congressional Plans • Ideology – thorough and punishing • Wade-Davis Bill (1864) • 50% of voters had to pledge • Abolition of slavery • Permanent exclusion of Confederates • Radical Reconstruction (Act of 1867) • Divided South into 5 military districts • Ratify 14th Amendment • Extend suffrage to African Americans

4. Reconstruction Politics Cont. • Constitutional Amendments • 13 (1865) • 14 (1868) • 15 (1870)

5. Reconstruction Politics Cont. • Constitutional Amendments • 13 (1865) • 14 (1868) • 15 (1870) • Johnson’s Impeachment • Tension with Congress • Tenure of Office Act • Narrow acquittal

6. Quiz Time 

7. Reconstruction Continued Was Reconstruction a success or a failure – especially when examining the lives of freedmen? 11/9

8. PD Discussion • How would you describe the situation of the freedman being interviewed? • Does this interview suggest substantial and lasting change?

9. Economics • Progress: • 13th Amendment • Exodusters • Regress: • Black Codes • illegal to not be employed, but options limited to agricultural and domestic work • Sharecropping

10. Politics • Progress: • Civil Rights Act (1866) • 14th Amendment • 15th Amendment • election of African Americans to political office • Regress: • Black Codes • couldn‘t serve on a jury or testify in court • suffrage loopholes • Redeemer governments

11. Social • Progress: • Freedmen’s Bureau • most significant successes in education • Civil Rights Act (1875) • Regress: • Ku Klux Klan • Civil Rights Cases (1883)

12. Reconstruction Letters • As you read your letter, look for descriptions of the economic, political, and social conditions for freedmen in Kentucky. • Think about if you would recommend that a freedman move to or remain in Kentucky during Reconstruction.

13. End of Reconstruction • Country growing tired and distracted • Election of 1876 • Hayes (R) • Tilden (D) • Compromise of 1877 • Hayes became president • removal of federal troops from South, Democrats in the cabinet, investments in the South

14. Legacies of Reconstruction • Positive • reunified and rebuilt • constitutional changes

15. Legacies of Reconstruction • Positive • reunified and rebuilt • constitutional changes • Negative • sectionalism continues • limited improvements to situation of African-Americans • Enslaved…Freed…Abandoned

16. …To End • Please craft a thesis statement for the following question: Assess the accuracy of the statement -- “Ultimately, the Civil War reduced sectional antagonism and made the United States truly ‘one nation’.”