Punishing or Pampering the South Presidential and Radical Reconstruction I Reconstruction Reuniting a Nation Torn 1 Many Questions How much Reconstruction Who will be in charge How far will Reconstruction go Should the South be punished What to do with former slaves II III A Snapshot of America 1865 Presidential Reconstruction the gentle approach 1 Proclamation of Amnesty and Reconstruction 1863 a Map of how to bring the country back together b 3 parts i Loyalty pledge by 10 or southerners ii Apologize iii Abolish slavery 2 Lincoln the racial moderate 3 Andrew Johnson Continuing Lincoln s gentle approach a Only southern senator to stay loyal to the north during the civil war from TN b Was rewarded with the vice presidency c Continues Lincoln s plan but make people ask for a personal pardon to regain citizenship 4 Want a quick easy reconstruction with slavery like before 5 AK TN LA VA get back in the Union Radical Reconstruction the get tough approach IV 1 Constitutional acts 13th 14th and 15th Amendments i 13 no slavery ii 14 equal rights based on race iii 15 right to vote for black men 2 Reconstruction Acts 1867 i The Short Lived Era of Black Political Influence in the South 1 Majority of legislature black in SC ii Wade Davis Bill 1864 1 Demanded that at least half of the voters in a conquered rebel state take the oath of allegiance before reconstruction could begin 3 Freedmen s Bureau i Teachers for former slaves ii Took land from plantation owners and gave to former slaves 1 Reversed because it was too radical 4 Military Force backs it all up 5 Charles Sumner and Thaddeus Stevens 6 Southerners sending congressmen to DC to pass black codes segregation laws i Illegal for former slave to be unemployed ii Majority of slaves go back to work for former owners iii Heavy taxes of job so agricultural V Impeaching Andrew Johnson a Opposed radical republicans b Tenure of Office Act president can t fire anyone without the approval of office i Passed because they knew AJ would break it ii One vote kept him in office VI Redemption the white South regains power 1 The Lost Cause and the Moonlight and Magnolias myth 2 The KKK and the intimidation of black male voters a Nathan Bedford Forrest founder 3 Reconstruction Fatigue in the North VII The Final Act The Compromise of 1877 a In exchange for a democratic promise to not block Hayes inauguration and to deal fairly with the freedmen Hayes vowed to refrain from using the army to uphold the remaining republican regimes in the South and to provide the South with substantial federal subsidies for internal improvements
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