Chapter 14 notes - Grace Ramirez

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Chapter 14 Identify what Reconstruction was. - The Reconstruction refers to the period immediately a±er the Civil War from 1865 to 1877 when several United States administrations sought to reconstruct society in the former Confederate states in particular by establishing and protecting the legal rights of the newly freed black population. How did the former Confederate States respond to the new freedmen? - The former Confederates opposed these goals. Most southern whites believed the proper place for blacks was as “servants and inferiors” as a Virginia planter testified to Congress. Be able to describe the different approaches to Reconstruction: ● Presidential Reconstruction - States could be restored fully into the Union a±er they wrote new constitutions that accepted the abolition of slavery, repudiated secession, and canceled the Confederate debt. ● Congressional Reconstruction - response to black codes and a fear that the new South would have more power- each former slave now counted as a full person. ● Radical Reconstruction - aim to enfranchise blacks What were the "Reconstruction Amendments"? Be able to describe them and their impact. - The Reconstruction Amendments were the thirteenth,fourteenth, fi±eenth amendments. The thirteenth amendment abolished slavery and the fourteenth gave citizenship to all those born in the U.S. The fi±eenth amendment gave Black Americans the right to vote. - The impact was that they oﬃcially ended overt slavery, gave citizenship to newly freed African Americans, and established the right to vote regardless of race. Know the Civil Rights Acts - The Civil Rights Acts prohibited discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex or national origin. How did the end of the war and the passage of the Reconstruction Amendments affect the lives of women? - This affected the lives of women through creating the conditions for a nationwide women’s rights movement. Women’s suffrage could no longer be dismissed as the absurd notion of a tiny minority, it had become a serious issue for national debate. What steps were taken to ensure the economic self-suﬃciency of the African American population? - Be able to compare sharecropping to slavery

- Sharecropping was similar to slavery because a±er a while, the sharecroppers owed so much money to the plantation owners they had to give them all of the money they made from cotton. What changes were made in the South with the new government (made up of both white and African American members)? What role did political violence play in the end of Reconstruction? - How did the Supreme Court impact the right of African Americans? What similarities are there between the election of 1876 and the election of 2020? - Both elections were controversial and were decided well past election day. On both occasions the Republicans held the White House and the Democrats were challenging them, although incumbent President Ulysses S. Grant opted not to seek another term in 1876 and instead allowed the Republicans to nominate Hayes as his successor. Was Reconstruction a success or failure? Be able to support. - The Reconstruction was a success in some ways in that it restored the United States as a unified nation; and all of the former Confederate states had dra±ed new constitutions, acknowledged the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fi±eenth Amendments, and pledged their loyalty to the U.S. government. But also it was a failure in the sense that it caused the group the KKK to exist.

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