Ch.16: Reconstruction Era

John Wilkes Booth

Assassinated Lincoln April 14 1865

Andrew Johnson VP

Succeeds Lincoln as President

His Southern sympathies & status as a democrat created enemies w/republican congress

First president to be impeached (acquitted by 1 vote)

Black civil rights 1860’s & 1870’s

13th amendment: Abolished slavery

14th amendment: basic citizenship rights affirmed

15th amendment: prevents voting discrimination based on race

Gain political offices

All enforced by military

Targets if hatred for souther whites under reconstruction

Black voters

“Scalawags” Pro-union white southerners

“Carpet baggers” Northern profiteers, or those seeking to help black southerners

Lu klux klan (kkk)

Terrorize black people

Return power to white southerners

Rutherford B Hayes

Election of Hayes 1876 disputed

Compromise of 1877

Democrats agree to Hayes election

Federal troops leave south

South can manage own affairs

Jim Crow laws

Designed to segregate black population

Restrict black people socially & politically

Illegal killings of people lynching

Laws lasted until 1964

Civil rights act

Eliminates Jim Crow laws

Restored black and minority rights taken away at end of reconstruction era