1. Reconstruction (1865-1876)

2. Key Questions 1. How do we bring the South back into the Union? 2. How do we rebuild the South after its destruction during the war? 3. How do we integrate and protect newly- emancipated black freedmen? 4. What branch of government should control the process of Reconstruction?

3. Vocabulary Terms 1. Reconstruction 2. Amnesty 3. Radical 4. Freedmen 5. Black codes 6. Override 7. Impeach 8. Scalawag 9. Carpetbagger 10. Corruption 11. Integrate 12. Sharecropping 13. Reconciliation 14. Poll tax 15. Literacy test 16. Grandfather clause 17. Segregation 18. Lynching Key Events 1. Lincoln’s Ten Percent Plan 2. Wade-Davis Bill 3. Freedmen’s Bureau 4. Thirteenth Amendment 5. Fourteenth Amendment 6. Fifteenth Amendment 7. Assassination of Abraham Lincoln 8. Black Codes 9. The Civil Rights Act of 1866 10. Formation of the Ku Klux Klan 11.Election of 1876 12.Compromise of 1877 13.The Bessemer process 14.Jim Crow Laws

4. Wartime Reconstruction

9. Jeff Davis Under Arrest

12. Freedmen’s Bureau Seen Through Southern Eyes Plenty to eat and nothing to do.

13. Freedmen’s Bureau School

14. Presidential Reconstruction

18. Slavery is Dead?

21. Johnson the Martyr / Samson If my blood is to be shed because I vindicate the Union and the preservation of this government in its original purity and character, let it be shed; let an altar to the Union be erected, and then, if it is necessary, take me and lay me upon it, and the blood that now warms and animates my existence shall be poured out as a fit libation to the Union. (February 1866)

22. Radical (Congressional) Reconstruction

24. The Balance of Power in Congress State White Citizens Freedmen SC 291,000 411,000 MS 353,000 436,000 LA 357,000 350,000 GA 591,000 465,000 AL 596,000 437,000 VA 719,000 533,000 NC 631,000 331,000

31. The Grant Administration (1868-1876)

32. The 1868 Republican Ticket

33. The 1868 Democratic Ticket

34. Waving the Bloody Shirt! Republican “Southern Strategy”

35. 1868 Presidential Election

36. President Ulysses S. Grant

38. The Tweed Ring in NYC William Marcy Tweed (notorious head of Tammany Hall’s political machine) [ Thomas Nast  crusading cartoonist/reporter]

39. Who Stole the People’s Money?

40. And They Say He Wants a Third Term

42. 1872 Presidential Election

43. Popular Vote for President: 1872

46. Black "Adjustment" in the South

47. Sharecropping

49. Black & White Political Participation

50. Establishment of Historically Black Colleges in the South

51. Black Senate & House Delegates

52. Colored Rule in the South?

55. The “Invisible Empire of the South”

58. The Abandonment of Reconstruction

60. 1876 Presidential Tickets

61. “ Regional Balance?”

62. 1876 Presidential Election

64. Hayes Prevails

65. Alas, the Woes of Childhood… Sammy Tilden —Boo-Hoo! Ruthy Hayes’s got my Presidency, and he won’t give it to me!

66. A Political Crisis: The “Compromise” of 1877