Transcript Reconstruction - Buncombe County Schools System

Reconstruction
Section 1
• Lincoln’s plan called for former
Confederate citizens to pledge loyality to
the US Constitution
• President Johnson appointed W.W.
Holden as governor in May of 1865.
• The NC convention of 1865 decided not to
repay war debts.
• Black Codes were laws that limited the
freedoms of formerly enslaved peoples
that said things like AA who didn’t have a
job could be jailed.
• Lincoln issued a Proclamation of Amnesty
and Reconstruction to allow all but a few
southerners a full pardon.
• The 13th Amendment outlawed Slavery.
• Southern states had to ratify the 13th
Amendment to get back into the Union.
• Reconstruction was the rebuilding of the
Southern States in order to bring them
back into the Union
Section 2
• Republicans in Congress opposed the policies of
President Johnson
• Radical Republicans wanted to punish the former
Confederate states.
• The Joint Committee on Reconstruction wanted to
replace Johnson’s plan for Reconstruction.
• The Reconstruction act of 1867 returned former
confederate states to military rule.
• The Freedman’s Bureau helped supply food, medicine,
and other emergency goods to Southerners after the
war. FB also helped former slaves by providing
education
• African American votes helped Grant become
president
• W.W. Holden helped organize the Republican
Party in NC.
• 14th Amendment defined citizenship in a way
to include AA’s, and also defined civil rights of
all.
• Impeachment is accusing one of wrongdoing.
• NC was governed by a governor and a federal
general.
• 15th Amendment forbid denial to vote based
on race, color, or previous condition of
servitude.
Section 3
• Carpetbaggers were northerners who carried
suitcases made of carpeting that would put in
government and were corrupt.
• Southern Republicans were known as scalawags
by their enemies who believed that anyone who
worked for government was a crook or traitor.
• As wealthy planters were loosing control of
government in NC it was becoming more
democratic. (meaning more people had a voice in
government)
• The Civil Rights Act of 1871 gave Americans
the right to challenge laws that restrict rights
guaranteed by the Constitution.
• The KKK was a secret society of exconfederates that used intimidation to try to
return political power to white men.
Section 4
• The period when Holden was governor in NC
could be characterized the word corruption.
• Wyatt Outlaw and John Stephens were
murdered by the KKK.
• Governor Holden used a militia in Alamance
and Caswell counties try to stop the KKK from
intimidating and killing it’s opponents. AKA
the Kirk-Holden War.
• After the Kirk-Holden War, Holden was
convicted of corrupt government practices
and impeached, or removed from office.
• President Rutherford B. Hayes withdrew the
army from southern states in 1877.
• By this point many Republicans had lost
interest in helping AA’s.
• The “Redeemers” passed taxes on things like
tools, farm animals and voting, that were
especially painful to AA’s and poor whites.
The
End of
Reconstruction