Dual History II 1/8/26

Reconstruction extra details

• the civil war was fought over slavery

• the only reason grant (republican) won the election is because of free male black vote

• the democrats would have won if not for free male black vote right after the civil war

• alot of confederates couldn’t vote
  —→ civil war is over

Emancipation

being set free from control, authority, or power of another person

Lincolns 10% plan

• 1863 proclamation of Amnesty and Reconstruction

• any confederate state that had 10% of the population swear loyalty to the United States could be readmitted to the Union. —> This would benefit the states by allowing them to quickly restore their government and economy, keep their land and avoid harsher penalties to move past the devastating Civil War and reunite the nation.

• This plan died with him

The only state that was able to take advantage of the 10% plan and surrendered so quickly and got readmitted to the Union and avoided Reconstruction even before Lincoln died was…

Tennnessee

Southern States wanted to avoid Reconstruction because..

the federal government took control of their states and forced changes they didn’t want

Lincoln Vice President

• Lincoln chose a Democrat (Andrew Johnson) even though he was a Republican

• In order to win the election, he felt he had to

• The Democrat (Andrew Johnson) he brought on had slaves—> later becomes President of the U.S.

To be impeached

Have to be impeached by the House and the Senate

Andrew Johnson

• Became 17th President of the U.S.

• The first president ever impeached( he did nothing wrong they just didn’t like him)—> one Republican saw history was about to be made

• His impeachment was completely political, he was so unpopular

The Senate Consist of:

5 Republicans 4 Democrats

JFK

• runs for President

• writes a book (someone else wrote it)

Edmund Ross

• was the Republican who didn’t want to start the Precedent (disagreeing with the president being impeached)

• Cost him his political career (he guessed it)

• Deemed a hero

• Extremely likely that he took a $20,000 bribe from the Democrat party

Then Republicans (who have a completely different idea then Lincoln) put their plan into action because…

Lincoln is dead

How come the Republicans tell the South what to do and enforce it? How come the Radical Republicans are able to do Reconstruction?

• Because the South was too occupied by the union , the Northern Army was in the South

• (the South turned in their guns the Northern army had just won the war so now the South is an occupied territory)

• whatever the North voted for, they could do

The south created..

• Black Codes—>basically almost immediately recreated the system of slavery (Ex: no interacial marriage)

• Made rules only Black people could follow

• Kept slavery in place even though it was illegal

• Stole the rules from Black people

• The response by the Radical republicans is the 14th Amendments

In order to fight Black codes..

They made freed Black people citizens

14th amendment

• citizenship

• Made free slaves citizens of the United States

• Once you became a citizen you have Civil Rights

• reason Black codes went away

15th amendment

right to vote

Because of Radical Reconstruction if you served in the Confederacy..

• You couldn’t vote, run for office

• A black minority in a town could win every election because all the white soldiers fought for the Confederacy

• During Radical reconstruction only guys who could win were black guys—> basically become governor

• South couldn’t do anything about it because the Union Army was right there

The south not knowing how to deal with this dramatic change of having no power so they create something to have power and it was the…

• Created the KKK because whites in the South had no power)

• KKK was 100% Democrat

KKK

• Their idea was if they intimidated the Black vote get the Black voter to not show up they could switch the election back to people they wanted in office

• It worked/ effective

• had white robes (because of the ghost +water thing) saying they were dead confederates

• It was secret because the Union Army was rolling around

• has three life times in history

The leader/face of the KKK was..

• Nathan Bedford Forest who was a popular horse rider from the South out of Memphis

• made alot of money from slave trade

• first white guy to speak at the NAACP

Once the KKK became violent..

• Grant ends the KKK by passing the anti clan act

• you could lose everything if you were a clan, property, get jailed etc

• the union army was floating around to act on it

Woman can vote in→
Native Americans can vote in→
African American men can vote in→

W-1920
NA-1921
AAM-1868

Sharecropping

• created because Black people left and they have massive crops with no one to work/care for them

• economically was not a great deal

• good for free black people with the abilities you could negotiate a deal

Why did African Americans have a shareable opinion (okay i’ll do that mindset) on Sharecropping?

• Because they were their own boss

Through all of these struggles tryna make sure blacks didn’t have power…

The Church was always them for them

Radical Republicans created the..

• Freedmans Burrough→

• created schools, hospitals, negotiated labor contracts between white farmers and share croppers

• helping the black community have upward ability

The last states to be reconstructed and added back to the union was..

Flordia and Louisiana in 1877

Two people who tried to take advantage of the South in it’s circumstances..

• Scallywag-a white dude in the south who fought for the north who became eligible to vote, hold office, government offices for buildings → only people eligible to participate in political life, business life,

• being a scallywag could get you killed

• Carpetbaggers-northern white guys who went south for reconstructions

• both Scallywag and Carpetbaggers were despised and made a lot of money

Grant..

• served two terms (8 years)

• he was a horrible president

• known as “The Butcher” for how many died

After Grant Republicans run a guy named…

• Rutherford B Hayes who went against a guy named Tilden

• Tilden won but didn’t have enough electoral college → then sends to committee which is equal part republican and democratic

tilden was supposed to win but..

• Rutherford talks to the Democrats in 1877 and tells them if they let him win he will pull the union/ northern troops from the south which would end Radical Reconstruction→ democrats take the deal→ ends freemans burrough, the KKK is not needed anymore

• gets bad for African Americans in 1877→ no one there to enforce the law (Compromise of 1877)

• R.B. Hayes isn’t a good president

• almost like Black codes come back

• Blacks move north

How did Tennessee avoid Radical Reconstruction?

It’s gonna start fading

What party did Andrew Johnson belong to

Democrat

Why did Nathan Bedford forest tell KKK to disban

Because they became violent

T/F Nathan Bedford founded the KKK

False