Post Civil War sections A & B

Civil War Results

1. 1.5 million casualties (over 600,00 d.)

2. North (Union) def. South (Confederate)

13th Amendment

Abolished slavery and freed 4 million people

Civil War Results Problems

1. Lincoln assassinated

2. Formerly enslaved people needed jobs, houses, education, etc.

3. Formerly enslaved people needed rights and protection

4. How to merge the South into the Union?

Reconstruction (1865-1877)

The process of rebuilding the cities, government, and economy in the South after the Civil War with the purpose of giving rights and opportunities to formerly enslaved people

North occupied the South and set up military districts to keep order

Freedman's Bureau

org. Established to assist formerly enslaved people by helping them find jobs, homes, schools, etc.

Civil Rights Act of 1866

all people born in the US are considered citizens

14th Amendment

equal protection under the law

Radical Republicans

Politicians from the North who wanted revenge on the South for slavery and the Civil War

Thadeus Stevens (PA) and Charles Sumner (Mass.)

Leaders of Radicals, out spoken by the South, believed in equal rights

2,000 African Americans had some type of

government or political positions

__ congressional positions in the Senate or House

16

Hiram Revels (Mississippi)

the first African American Senator

Joseph Rainey (N. Carolina)

the first African American to the House of Reps.

Reconstruction (1865-1877) Problems

Jim Crow laws - segregation laws that would vary in Southern states to prevent African Americans from gaining full rights

KKK (+ other terror groups) would intimidate African American groups