1. Radical Reconstruction

2. Tenure of Office Act
• Congress passed the Tenure of Office Act
• It forbade the president from dismissing
cabinet members without the consent of the
Senate
• The radicals were trying to protect Secretary
of War Edwin Stanton
• Johnson dismisses him anyway!

3. Edwin Stanton

4. • The House of Representatives impeach
Johnson and it went to the Senate for trial
• Needed a 2/3 vote to remove Johnson
• They were 1 vote short

5. Reconstruction Amendments
• 13th Amendment: Abolition of Slavery

6. • 14th Amendment: guarantee of citizen rights

7. • 15th Amendment: Guarantee of voting rights

8. Military Reconstruction Act
• Imposed military occupation on the South
• Tennessee was exempt

10. Each state had to:
1. Write a new constitution (where everyone
got to vote)
2. Pass the 14th amendment

11. • When they did that, the army would be
removed.

12. Freedman’s Bureau
• Developed to aid the blacks with food,
clothing and schools
• Also worked to counteract the Black Codes
passed in the South

13. Freedman’s Union Industrial School

15. Radical Republicans in the South
• Carpetbaggers:
northern radicals
who moved to the
South

16. • Scalawags: Southern radicals

17. • How did the radical republicans stay in office
in the South?
• Confederates were denied the right to vote
(called disfranchisement)

18. Sharecropping
Sharecroppers farmed small plots of land owned
by planters and paid their annual rent for the
use of the land with part of the crop they grew.

21. Ku Klux Klan
• Designed to keep blacks from exercising their
newly gained political rights
• Ku Klux Klan act of 1871 – aim by Congress to
curb the power of the Klan