Correct the Error
Radical Republicans were a diverse group of people who sought to return to the Antebellum status quo.
Radical Republicans were a diverse group of people who sought to change from the Antebellum status quo.
Main idea of the 13th Amendment
Loophole in the 13th Amendment
In the view of many bitter Southerners:
A group of Northerners (of any race) who came to the South to help rebuild (or, at least said they would).
Carpetbaggers
They don't want to change
No, they don't want that
At the time this political group
is called the ______________.
Democrats
Sharecropping gave economic and social opportunity to farmers.
Sharecropping denied a fair chance at economic and social opportunity to farmers.
Main idea of the 14th Amendment
Defined citizenship (first time in nearly 100 years)
Guaranteed equal rights for all people before the law
Loophole in the 14th Amendment
- Gray area in defining citizenship, for example people born in territories during this time, or indigenous people
- Equality that is imperfect in reality (on purpose, or just because people aren't perfect)
Synonymous with suffrage and enfranchisement
Voting
A man of courage and wit
I don't know if he was very tall
Palmetto freedman and representative
His name was ________________
Robert Smalls
It's never been re-written
Amendments update it to clear up confusion
The gold standard of American law
is the Declaration of Independence
US Constitution
The Reconstruction Era established that _______ governments did have to obey the ________ government's laws.
state; federal
Discriminatory state laws passed after the Civil War, designed to resist change to the antebellum status quo. The 13th - 15th Amendments were created to override these laws.
Black Codes
A vicious cycle of poverty, hard work, leverage, and debt. Common in agricultural settings.
Sharecropping
The laws resisted change
And should make your brow furrow
Racist segregation they required
They were named after _____________
Jim Crow
Plessy protested integration
A policy sweeping its way across the nation
Upheld by state rules
Supreme Court didn't say "no, fools"
Plessy protested segregation
Main idea of the 15th Amendment
The right to vote cannot be denied on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude.
Loophole in the 15th Amendment
- Can't deny the vote, but can put up barriers
- Can't discriminate on the basis of race, but plenty of other characteristics are supposedly legal
"Separate but Equal" (does not violate the Equal Protection Clause)
Open to all in need
Which in the South was many folks
Education, food, and legal help
Funded by a group chosen by _______
votes!
(Freedmen's Bureau was funded by Congress, which is a group chosen by votes)
The Reconstruction Era saw success
Hard-working people didn't use their rights
And though the progress wasn't perfect
We still continue the good fight
Hard-working people DID use their rights! (Evidence of freedmen voting, evidence of society pushing for expanded opportunities and growth for all i.e. education)
One major difference between the 1868 (pro-change) and the 1895 (anti-change) state Constitutions of South Carolina.
- 1868 protected voting rights and rights of the accused
- 1895 outlined ways to legally DQ people from voting
Reconstruction 'ended' when Congress stopped _____ and ______ the legal and social efforts to change.
funding and enforcing
The argument about how the nation should rebuild was seen everywhere. One example was the Radical Republicans disagreeing with Democratic President ____________ so much that they tried to ______________ him.
Andrew Johnson (Lincoln's VP); Impeach (and the House did vote to impeach him, but the Senate didn't vote to remove him from office).
The theme of this unit is change
Resistance can seem so strange
Progress is an imperfect creation
Reconstruction is a time of rebuilding the _______
nation