Reconstruction Lecture Notes PDF

## Reconstruction Lecture Notes ### Civil Rights Act - Congress passed Civil Rights Act - Outlawed Black Codes - Pres. Johnson vetoed, but Congress overrode it ### 14th Amendment 1866 - Granted citizenship to protect rights of liberaties of freedmen ### Johnson Impeached 1868 - Senate tried...

## Reconstruction Lecture Notes ### Civil Rights Act - Congress passed Civil Rights Act - Outlawed Black Codes - Pres. Johnson vetoed, but Congress overrode it ### 14th Amendment 1866 - Granted citizenship to protect rights of liberaties of freedmen ### Johnson Impeached 1868 - Senate tried President, but he escaped by one vote - Next election, Republican Ulysses S. Grant won the presidency ### 15th Amendment 1870 U.S - Granted AA's right to vote ### Republican South: - Carpetbaggers - Northern Republicans who moved into the South - Teachers, businessmen, political leaders & greedy men - Scalawags - White Southern Republicans - Opposed secession ### New South: - Farming Changes - Sharecropping - Farmer farms part of owner's land & gets 1/2 the crop at harvest - Some worked without pay - Sharecroppers charged w/housing & other expenses - Pay to rent land ### Atlanta GA becomes industrial city - 3,300 mi new RR track (40% increase) - Cotton mills & fabric factories ### (Funding reconstruction) #### Rebuild - Roads, bridges, canal, RR, telegraphs & public schools - Added 130 million to Southern debt #### Corruption - Much of spending lost to corruption - Corruption widespread - Word reached Pres. Grant - Southerners blamed AA's & carpet baggers ### (Spreading terror) #### KKK - Goal was to defend the social and political superiority of whites against inferiors, aggressions - Torture, harassed, or killed targets (carpetbaggers, scalawags, AA’s) #### Enforcement Act (1870) - (Federal response) - Banned the use of terror, force or bribery to prevent people from voting - (Banned KKK & strengthened military) - Courts tried thousands of men. KKK was gone within a few years. ### End of Reconstruction #### Dying Issue - Heavy spending put Southern states in debt - Symbolized corruption ### Southern states blocked reconstruction (1873) - White Southerners formed groups to block AA's and Democrats of the South. - Economy fell ### (Reconstruction Ends) - Hayes (R) becomes president - Troops leave South - more money for Southerners (more money for industrialization) - Appoint Democrats to positions