Transcript What Should Be Done for Former Slaves and to Ex

What Should Be Done for Former
Slaves and to Ex-Confederates?
I. Slaves Gain Their Freedom
A. Slaves No More – The E. Proclamation & 13th Amendment
B. Former Slaves Define Freedom: New Names
and New Homes
C. The Freedman’s Bureau Helps Former Slaves
Daughter teaching mother to read, Mt. Meigs, Alabama
Daughter teaching mother to read, Mt.
Meigs, Alabama
African Americans of all ages eagerly
pursued the opportunity freedom
provided to gain an education. This
young woman in Mt. Meigs, Alabama, is
helping her mother learn to read.
(Smithsonian Institute. Photo by Rudolf
Eickemeyer.)
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D. Former Slaves Face Immediate Challenges:
• The Problem of Land
• Black Codes
• The KKK
II. Congress v. President Johnson: What
should be done for former slaves?
A. Andrew Johnson:
Emancipation Only
Slavery is Dead (?)
B. Congress:
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Emancipation (13th amendment)
Education & land (Freedman’s Bureau?)
Equality under the law (14th Amendment)
Vote (15th Amendment)
Enforcement (Reconstruction Act of 1867, Force Acts)
C. Congress Impeaches Johnson
The vote to throw Johnson out of office:
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35 Yes
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19 No
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1 Vote Short of 2/3 – So Stays in office
III. What should happen to former
Confederate leaders?
A. Johnson: Pardons & Confederates in Congress
B. Congress: The 14th Amendment Kicks Out
Confederates