HIST 151 Lecture 2 Chapter 16 Reconstruction 1863 1877 cont Outline of Last Lecture I What was Reconstruction II Booth and Johnson III 10 Plan Proclamations of Amnesty and Reconstruction Outline of Current Lecture I Black Codes II Freedmen s Bureau III Constitutional Amendments 13 14 and 15 IV Radical Republicans and Waving the bloody shirt Current Lecture Black Codes Employed in the southern states after the Civil War Restricted the freedom of African Americans in many ways land ownership business property movement etc Also made not working a criminal offense but the only jobs that would hire them were places with hard labor and low wages Were essentially laws to regulate the lives of former slaves Freedmen s Bureau A government agency that assisted freed men in the south during Reconstruction around 1865 They helped with legal cases taught them how to read and write helped them find their families and encouraged plantation owners to start their businesses again and treat black employees as people workers and not slaves The Bureau started becoming weakened by Johnson s veto of the new charter in 1866 as well as the rise of the KKK It ended in 1872 due to Grant s administration disliking the leadership of the Bureau Oliver O Howard Constitutional Amendments 13 14 and 15 These notes represent a detailed interpretation of the professor s lecture GradeBuddy is best used as a supplement to your own notes not as a substitute Amendment 13 abolished slavery and other forms of involuntary servitude unless it was punishment for a crime 1865 Fastest amendment ratified Amendment 14 set citizenship as anybody born in the United States Also made sure that you cannot deny anybody of their constitutional rights Equal protection of laws and citizenship essentially 1868 In reaction to Black Codes in the south Amendment 15 prohibiting government of any kind from denying voting rights to people of a certain race color or previous condition of servitude Radical Republicans and Waving the Bloody Shirt Radical Republicans wanted equality for all over night no matter what The bloody shirt was a political strategy used by radical Republicans during this era to appeal to voters They would bring up the past hardships of the war and talk about how freed slaves were now just being killed by the KKK This inspired black people and northern veterans to vote for the Republicans Sometimes this was literal and sometimes figurative
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