The Reconstruction Era

1.) After the Civil War, The United Stated was deciding what to do with the South face, so they started the Reconstruction Era.

2.) Abraham Lincoln got killed by John Wilkes Booth after 5 days the war ended

3.) After Lincoln death, Andrew Jackson became president.

Chapter 23.1

1,) Many Americans had different views on about how to rebuild the Southern States and bring them back to the Union.

2.) The thirteenth Amendment became part of the Constitution thanks to the president’s requirements.

3.) Thousands of enslaved people attended free schools built by the Freedmen’s Bureau

4.) The Freedmen’s Bureau was targeted by White Southerns, particularly members of the Ku Klux Klan.

5.) Republican Congress were alarmed to see what they were headed.

Chapter 23.2

1.) Republicans in Congress wanted the federal government to take an important role in the Reconstruction.

2.) The Fourteenth Amendment granted Citizenship to all people born or naturalized in the United States.

3.)The Civil Rights Act in 1866 declared that freed people to be full citizens with the same civil rights as white people.

4.) The military Reconstruction Act was a plan that divided the South into five military districts, each one governed by a general supported by federal troops.

5.) Sharecropping was something that farmers used to use, people rented land and the people who buy it pay it with their crops.

Chapter 23.3

1.) Most Black Americans voters joined the republican party- the party of Abraham Lincoln and emancipation. Meanwhile, White Southerners voters also joined the republican party because they thought that the Democratic party was for wealthy landowners.

2.) The Fifteenth Amendment says that a citizen’s right to vote should not be denied on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude.

3.) Delegates across the South were elected to constitutional convection and most of them were African Americans.

4.) The south’s new state governments after the Election of 1868 quickly ratified the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendment.

5.) During the Reconstruction, Many black men were elected to the House of Representatives and the Senate.

Chapter 23.4

1.) Most white people in the South bitterly resented the Southern Reconstruction governments.

2.) Many white Southerners also got mad when they saw that black people were voting and holding public office.

3.) Democrats tried to win Black voters away from the Republican party, but they failed so they started to attempt to use legal means to keep black people from voting or from taking office.

4.) Congress passed 3 laws to combat violence against Black Americans. known as the Enforcement Acts.

Chapter 23.5

1.) After the Reconstruction was over, Southern leaders talked about building a “New South” humming with factories and cities.

2.) When Southern Democrats regained control of states, they cut spending in education.

3.) Many southern states passed laws requiring citizens who wanted to vote to pay a poll tax.

4.) When democrats returned to power, they reversed the laws that outlawed segregation in public states.

Chapter 23.6

1.) Black Americans responded to Segregation in many ways, for example they protested and spoke out.

2.) Most Black Americans remained in the South, creating communities to improve their lives.

3.) Their communities also banded together to build schools and colleges for Black children.

4.) However, thousands of black families left the South for Kansas in the Exodus of 1879.