HIST 10613 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Ku Klux Klan, Rutherford B. Hayes, Reconstruction Amendments
1/19 Reconstruction
Friday, January 19, 2018
11:01 AM
Reconstruction - the era following the civil war
- political reconstruction
Andrew Johnson- a southerer, loyal to the uio ad did’t support the suessio
• Lincoln picks Johnson, a democrat, as his running mate
• Felt that there needed to be punishment for the rebels, Lincoln didn't
• Johso ould’t are less aout the good of the Afria Aerias, puttig hi at
odds with the republican congress (vetoed a lot)
• Republican congress passed a law in order to set a trap for Johnson depicting that
Johso ould’t fire people fro Liols aiet ithout ogresses approal
• Johnson impeached (1868) - the constitutional mechanism for trying an official for high
crimes and misdemeanors, was acquitted and served the rest of his term
Ulysses S. Grant- elected following Johnson, uncovered scandals trying to stop them but ended up making
him look bad
• Fought the Klu Klux Klan
• Congress passed a bill called the Klu Klux Act to give Grant ability to fight the Klan with government
forces forcing them underground
Reconstruction Amendments:
13th amendment- abolishes slavery in the US
-Lincoln lived to see it passed but not ratified by the states
14th amendment- all persons born in the US are subject to the jurisdiction of citizens,
-states shall not deny due process or equal protection
15th amendment- the right of the citizens of the US to vote shall not be denied the US or by any
state on account of race, color
Election of 1876 & the end of Reconstruction
• Nominees
o Rutherford B Hayes ( R) - won electoral vote but not popular vote
o Samuel J. Tiden (D)
• Disputed votes in Florida, Louissiana
• Results in the end of the Reconsruction because Democrats wanted them to pull the last of federal
troops out of the South
• Reconstruction= post war occupation phase
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