HIST 2112 Two approaches to reconstruction o Should be easy and slow and deliberate o Should be hard and fast Had to make sure the south could not rise again to the Confederacy 26 million Americans after the Civil War o Most lived in small towns Industrialization starts its rise in 20 years Presidential Reconstruction o States had to apply for readmission 10 of the population had to sign off on a loyalty oath Admit that slavery is unconstitutional and agree to the 13th amendment Renounce your recession o These 3 steps allowed you to rejoin the union o With malice towards none and charity for all Lincoln s second inaugural address o Lincoln was a moderate especially towards freeing the slaves He felt the US government should buy slaves from slave owners and send them back to Africa especially Liberia He felt keeping them hear would be disastrous and that we could retract racial issues o Andrew Johnson hated plantation owners even though he is a southerner o He became president because he was an anti southern politician o He especially hated African Americans and those who supported the African Americans Felt black soldiers should be given the right to vote because of their service and loyalty to the union but that s it o Wealthy plantation owners had to come to him and get written permission to regain citizenship they basically had to suck up o Hated the Freedman s Bureau and vetoes it Radical Republicans o Charles Sumner o Thaddeus Stevens o 13th 14th 15th amendments are created by radical republicans 13th outlawed slavery 14th gave black people citizenship 15th black males are allowed to vote This amendment particularly helps prevent the second rise of the Confederacy Also gives them the ability to run for office o Pass the Tenure Office Act Keeps the president from firing any of his Cabinet without permission from Congress o Johnson violates this and gets impeached o Passes with one vote though and is still President Black Codes o Examples Black people cannot travel without permission from their employer Black people are required by law to be employed o Attempts to recreate slavery as closely as possible Panic of 1873 o Worst depression thus far in American history We are starting to enter industrialism and starting to forget about keeping the South down and quiet The Ku Klux Klan rises up to help suppress the Black Vote Rutherford B Hayes gets elected because Republicans came to the southern Democrats and said they would remove all union troops from the South if they let the Republicans have the presidency o This officially ends the reconstruction period
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