HSTAA 105 Lecture Notes - Lecture 22: Rutherford B. Hayes
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Reconstruction
1865-1867
• KKK formed immediately after the war 1865.
• Reconstruction was occupation of the South by U.S troops, rebuilding of infrastructure in
the South, and re-education of white Southerners and integration of freedmen into society
o Re-education of the whites didn’t actually really occur
• Radical Republicans believed in 40 acres and a mule (Thadeus Stevens)
• Andrew Johnson became president after Lincoln died
o 18th president
o 1865-1869
• In 1866, MS spent 20% of its revenue towards artificial limbs for vets
• The farms and barns were burnt down
• Many in the north believed that the South should be punished
• 4M blacks were then freed but had nowhere to go
• Radical Republicans wanted South to allow blacks to vote and equal rights under the law
and for each slaves to get “48 acres and a mule” as recompensation
o Thadeus also wanted a total change in the South
• 13 Amendment
o Abolished slavery, passed before Lincoln was assassinated
• 1868, the 14th amendment was passed
o Equal protection under the law
• 1867, Congress oversaw reconstruction
o Congressional Reconstruction Act made Southern states rewrite their Constitution
▪ Act also formed military districts in the South with military officials in
charge of each.
▪ Allowed black men to vote, but officers in Confederates don’t get to vote
• For the first time, blacks were now elected into office of Congress
• 15th Amendment
o Blacks got the right to vote