HIST 105 Lecture Notes - Lecture 23: Fourteenth Amendment To The United States Constitution, Fifteenth Amendment To The United States Constitution, Reconstruction Acts

• School: Texas A&M University
• Department: History
• Course: HIST 105
• Professor: John Lenihan

Document Summary

All southern states in the union by 1870. The record of reconstruction- changing interpretations issues: Property and power- from white to black. 15th amendment -> right to vote no matter color and race. South must make states constitutions and 14th amendment. 1868 -> most southern states have reached the requirements of reconstruction acts. 60"s -> kkk emerges -> to intimidate blacks -> but were stopped by federal troops sent by ulysses s. grant. 1872 -> amnesty act was passed and whites were able to vote -> helped get the. Rutherford b. hays -> said if south will support him then he would pull federal troops out. Plessy v ferguson -> you can separate people as long as there are equal facilities. Radical republicans tried to help out the blacks and the first thing to do was help. But it was good that slavery was abolished and that laws were passed which.