A survey of Presidential Reconstruction, as implemented by Presidents Lincoln and Johnson from 1863-1866

2. Analyze the effects of Reconstruction on the southern
states and on the role of the federal
government, including the impact of the
thirteenth, fourteenth, and fifteenth amendments on
opportunities for African Americans.

3. Presidential Congressional
(aka, Radical)

4. “With malice toward none, with
charity for all, with firmness in
the right as God gives us to see
the right, let us strive on to finish
the work we are in, to bind up the
nation's wounds… to do all which
may achieve and cherish a just
and lasting peace among
ourselves and with all nations.”
-- Abraham Lincoln
Second Inaugural Address
March 4, 1865
MAGNANIMOUS

7. 10% of 1860 Voters
1. Oath to the U.S.
2. Accept Emancipation
Louisiana and Arkansas Re-admitted

8. Come
As You
Are
Frank Micelotta/Getty Images

9. Frank Micelotta/Getty Images
But not
quite as
you
were

10. • IRONCLAD OATH
– Never supported CSA
– 50 Percent Swear
• CSA DEBT REPUDIATION
• CONFEDERATE LEADERS
DISENFRANCHISED
RADICAL (Anti-Lincoln) REPUBLICANS
TRANSCRIPT
(1864)
Further Reading

11. By hoveringdog

12. "… If any Bill shall not be returned by
the President within ten Days (Sundays excepted)
after it shall have been presented to him, the Same
shall be a Law, in like Manner as if he had signed
it, unless the Congress by their Adjournment
prevent its Return, in which Case it shall not be a
Law.”
-- U.S. Constitution

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14. NOT LAW
Because Congress Adjourned

15. 1 0PRESIDENTIAL
CONGRESSIONAL
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16. April 12, 1865

17. Gen. Richard Taylor, CSA
(Son of President Zachary Taylor)
General Canby met me with much urbanity.
We retired to a room, and in a few moments
agreed upon a truce… Then, rejoining the
throng of officers, introductions and many
pleasant civilities passed… A bountiful
luncheon was spread, of which we
partook, with joyous poppings of champagne-
corks… the first agreeable explosive sounds I
had heard for years. The air of "Hail
Columbia," which the band in attendance
struck up, was instantly changed by Canby's
order to that of "Dixie;" but I insisted on the
first, and expressed a hope that Columbia
would be again a happy land, a sentiment by
many libations.

18. New York Times Article
Richmond, VA
Dedicated 2003
Lincoln
Statue

20. Sic Semper
Tyrannis!

21. Mary Surratt Mary Surratt was the
first woman executed by
the U.S. government.
Note the presence of the Catholic
priest in the foreground (Nativism).

22. O CAPTAIN! my Captain!
our fearful trip is done;
The ship has weather'd every rack,
the prize we sought is won;
The port is near, the bells I hear,
the people all exulting,
While follow eyes the steady keel,
the vessel grim and daring:
But O heart! heart! heart!
O the bleeding drops of red,
Where on the deck my Captain lies,
Fallen cold and dead.
By: Walt Whitman

23. Andrew Johnson
(D-TN)
Seventeenth President of the
U.S.
1865-1869
• Tennessee Unionist
• VP on “Union Party” Ticket
• Opposition President
• Jacksonian Democrat vs.
Republican Congress
• Sought to continue
Presidential Reconstruction
• 1st PRESIDENT TO BE IMPEACHED Click for Bio

24. Amnesty Proclamation
• Former Confederates
above a certain rank
disenfranchised, but
could apply for pardon.
• NO TREASON TRIALS

25. Confederate Memorial
Arlington National Cemetery
During and after the Reconstruction
period, white Southerners
continued to honor Confederate
veterans, living and dead.
United Daughters
of the Confederacy (UDC)

26. Funny
Story

27. Further Reading
Fort Monroe, VA

28. Reflections of an
Ex-Vice President
“General [H.R.] Jackson was released
from this place to-day – the order came
this morning and he left this evening. I
am truly glad for his good fortune. But
why should he be discharged and other
officers kept, I do not understand; nor
do I understand why he should be
discharged and I held. He bent his
energies to bring about secession; I
strove with all my power to prevent it.”
-- Alexander H. Stephens
July 8, 1865
Fort Warren Prison, MA
Alexander H. Stephens

29. • Thirteenth Amendment
• Freedmen’s Bureau
• Sharecropping
• Black Codes
FRANCHISE
And Not This Man?

30. RECONSTRUCTION
AMENDMENTS:
13 14
Neither slavery nor
involuntary
servitude, except as a
punishment for crime
where of the party shall
have been duly
convicted, shall exist
within the United
States, or any place
subject to their
Ratified December 6, 1865
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31. Established by
Congress in 1865
to help former
slaves.
– Education
– Healthcare
– Job Placement
From Harper’s Weekly, 1868

33. UNDERFUNDED
Met with resistance in
both North and South
Re-chartered annually until it
was abolished in 1872. Northern Cartoon
(Pennsylvania, 1866)

36. Sharecropping Tenant Farming

37. Passed in many
Southern states to
restrict the activities
of freedmen

38. Link to Document
What rights were African-
Americans deprived of in the
South immediately after the
Civil War?

39. EPIC FAIL

40. Let’s try
this again…

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