Unit 5 - Reconstruction

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North Carolina Social Studies. Middle School Lessons on American History and World History with a focus on 5 themes - History, Civics and Government, Geography, Economics, and Culture.

Unit 5 - Reconstruction
Reconstruction
Time Period following the Civil War (1865-1877)
Rebuilding the South
Physically and Mentally
Bringing the Southern States back
Ten Percent Plan
1863: Lincoln’s plan to bring states back to the union
if 10% of a state’s population swears allegiance ► that state can rejoin Union
complete pardon (forgiveness of crime)
Lincoln dies ► never enforced
Wade-Davis Bill
if 50% of a southern state’s voters swear:
loyalty to the US and...
that they never supported the CSA
Then that state can rejoin the union
Lincoln pocket vetoed
Pocket Veto:
Congress passes a law
Then they go on vacation
If the President decides not to sign the law within 10 days... it’s vetoed (canceled)
e.g. you want to break up with your GF/BF, but don’t want to do it...you ignore them until they get the picture (pocket veto)
Life for African-Americans
The Freedman’s Bureau
Gov’t Agency (like social services)
Give food, shelter, and medical aid to freed slaves and southern whites
whites were not all rich plantation owners
very few whites were rich
most were poor and lived in the now destroyed south
Created schools
This agency was closed in 1872
President Andrew Johnson refused to fund it
also opposed the 40 acres and a mule policy
Johnson (southerner) was sympathetic to the South and the previous way of life
Black Codes
Laws that limited African-American freedom
Southern Legislatures (state congresses) passed these laws
segregation
Public areas were separated by race
housing areas were separated by race
limited jobs, pay, and rights
can’t own a firearm
can’t speak in court
Vagrancy Laws
Black were arrested for minor infractions
Being unemployed was a crime
The Punishment ► forced labor
slavery by another name
Sharecropping
ex-slaves couldn’t buy land
They rented the land
they would harvest the land, sell their crops
make enough money to pay rent
most of the time they didn’t make enough money, and they were stuck in debt
stuck on the farm forever
a new form of slavery