Monday - Wednesday
Finish up Mr. Bruns Top 10 Biggest Topics in U.S History
Notes:
Reconstruction: !2 years after the Civil War. Happened in 1865-1877. The period of time after the Civil War in which the South had to rebuilt and reorganized and brought back into the Union. Had to be rebuilt the south economically, socially, politically, and physically. President's Lincoln and Johnson wanted to be easy on the South. That changed in the 1866 Congressional election. Southern governments taken over by "carpetbaggers" and "scalawags." These governments set up schools, raised taxes, built railroads, helped ex-slaves, industrialized the South. Governments were accused of widespread corruption by southerners.
Reconstruction left very deep divisions between the northern states and southern states. Once the northern governments and military left the south, traditional rich, white racist males took it back over.
This is known was The Compromise of 1877
Republican Radical Reconstruction:
- Had to be rebuilt the south economically, socially, politically, and physically.
- Split South into five military district controlled by US Army.
- 13th and 14th and 15th Amendments passed.
- Freedmen's Bureau set up to help former slaves.
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