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| Freedmen's Bureau was founded in |
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| Administrator of FB in 1866 |
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| Freedmen's Bureau died a natural death in |
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| Human Losses of Civil War |
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| 250,000 Dead, 40,000 in NC, 27,000 in MS |
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| After the War Robert E Lee |
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| Accepted the position as president of washington college, and stayed there until he died |
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| Amount of money lost in slaves |
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| Fall of the plantation system gave way to... |
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| Established the first billion dollar company |
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| First million dollar company |
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| South's Bitternes came from |
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| reconstruction not the war |
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Lincoln's Plan
-offered general pardon with oath of future alliegance
-10% of eligible voters had to take this oath
-Had to abolish slavery
-LA, AR, and TN were readmitted under this plan |
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Summer of 1864
Required Iron Clad Oath
50% had to give iron clad oath
defeated by a pocket veto |
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Put plan into effecgt w/out calling congress into session
Offered pardon to people who took oath of alliegence except for $20,000 of property or former officers
-50% instead of 10%
-8 states admitted under this plan |
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| Gave black people a status slightlly above slaves but still below whites |
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| Authorized officials to arrest unemplyed freedmen for vacancy and hired them to work of their debt |
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| Chief architect of radical reconstruction |
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1st measure enacted by 1866
Called for equal protection of the law
Basically citizenship and equal rights
Johnson tried to veto it but congress over rode his veto |
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| Passed by congress in 1866 and ratified in 1868 |
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| Northerners moving towards the south, have a bad rep but lots of htem really just wanted to bring good change to the south. |
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| White southerners who sided w/ the north, EX: John James Longstreet |
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| founded to reestablsih the old south, in 1866 |
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1867 Said that the president had to have the senate's approval to remove anyone from office that was appointed by him
This act was aimed to either provoke Johnson or protect Edwin Stanton secretary of war |
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Samuel Tildon v. Hayes
Tildon wins w/ 51% of the vote but ballots have to be recounted
Compromise of 1877 Dems say reconstruction is over and remove troops from the south and republicans get the presidency |
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March of 1867
South is divided into 5 military districts
each state had to ratify the 14th amendment
All black males were enfranchised and all white males who were disqualified from office were not able to vote
Gave blacks more votes |
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Congress passed it in 1868
Ratified in 1870
Said no state could deprive a person of the right to vote based on race, color, or previous state of servitude |
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| cases struck down a civil rights act passed in 1875 which had been designed to ensure equal access to public accomodations later enacted in 1964 |
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