reconstruction 2

A detailed Summary of reconstruction 2


Reconstruction: the period of US history in which the nation tried to adjust

to the new conditions created by the Civil War

Results: slavery abolished; Freedmen's Bureau provides services for war

refugees and freed people (including food, medical aid, and education); Civil

Rights Act passed in 1866 - gives federal government power to protect African

American rights; the Reconstruction Acts establish Radical Reconstruction;

the KKK acts seek to outlaw organizations aimed at denying African Americans

their rights; the Civil Rights Act of 1875 protects African American rights

in public places; African Americans held office during reconstruction; debt

peonage or forced labor came about in south; US became an industrial power;

Andrew Johnson's Plan: Made most Confederates eligible for pardons in return

for taking an oath of loyalty to the US, favored easy terms under which t


if voted to impeach then tried by senate. If 2/3 majority convicts official

Reasons for Immigration: Homestead Act-gave 160 acres of land to immigrants

amendment-stop payments of state's war debts

any confederate who would swear allegiance to Union and accept end of slavery

Radical Republicans: Wanted terms that would be more difficult for southern

Freedmen's Bureau: Established March 1865 to provide aid to freed people and

official previously approved by the senate)



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