outline for reconstruction lecture

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Outline for Reconstruction Lecture

I. Overview

a. Reconstruction defined

b. Wars aftermath

c. Three important points to remember about Reconstruction

II. Development of the North

a. During the War, with the absence of southern congressmen, the U.S. Congress

passes several measures to benefit the northern economy.

i. Morrill Tariff

ii. Legislation passed authorizing the building of the first transcontinentalrailroad.

iii. Homestead Act of 1862

III. Devastation in the South

a. Collapse of southern economy

b. Destruction of southern infrastructure

IV. The Battle over Reconstruction

a. Overviewthe problem of reconstructing the South, politically, centered on what

governments would constitute authority in the defeated states.

i. Virginia

ii. President Lincoln names military governors in 1862 for Tennessee,

Arkansas, and Louisiana.

b. Abraham Lincolns Plan for reconstruction

i. The Ten Percent Planalso called Proclamation of Amnesty and

Reconstruction Planimplemented before the war was over.

V. Radical Republicans

a. These men wanted Congress to control Reconstruction.

b. Wade-Davis Bill

VI. Assassination of Abraham Lincoln


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a. April 14, 1865

b. John Wilkes Booth

VII. Andrew Johnson

a. Replacement for Lincoln

b. He wanted to humiliate the Planter class.

c. Johnsons Reconstruction Plan

d. Problems with Johnsons Plan

VIII. Radical reconstruction

a. Goals of Radical Reconstruction

b. Johnson and Radical Republicans argue over three points

i. Civil Rights Bill of 1866

ii. The Freedmens Bureau

iii. Fourteenth Amendment

IX. Reconstruction Acts of 1867


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X. Impeachment of Andrew Johnson

a. Tenure in Office Act

b. Presidential Impeachment

c. Impeachment versus removal from office

XI. Reconstruction of Southern Society

a. How did reconstruction actually work?

b. Who were the Southern Republicans

i. Carpetbaggers

ii. Scalawags

iii. Freedmen

c. Southern Republican Agenda

d. Tools of Enforcement and change

i. Freedmens Bureau

ii. Army

iii. Government power

XII. Freedmens Life

a. 13th Amendment

b. Land Ownership

i. 40 acres and a mule

ii. Why did most freedmen not get land?

c. What were the freedmen going to do with their lives?

i. Freedmens Bureau

ii. Tenant Farming

XIII. The administration of Ulysses S. Grant

a. Election of 1868

b. Passage of 15th amendment

c. Government corruption


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i. Credit Mobilier Scandal

d. Grants foreign policy

XIV. End of Reconstruction

a. Corruption

b. Infighting

c. Decline of northern support

d. Democrats take control of the South

i. Redemption

1. Mississippi Plan

a. Overt Racism

b. Terror and Intimidation

e. Southern Republican Response

i. Full force

ii. Enforcement Acts (1870-1871)

XV. 1876 Election

a. Controversial ending

outline for reconstruction lecture

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