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Liclon wanted a moderate policy that would recincile theSouth with the Union instead of punishing it for treason. He offered a generl amnesty to all Southerners who took an oath of loyalty to the US and accept the Union's proclamations concerning slavery.
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This bill required the majority of the adult white men in a former Confederate State to take an oath of allegince to the Union. The state could then hold a constitutional convention to create a new state government.
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To help the freed people feed themselves, Shermn reserved all abondaned plantation land with in 30 miles of the coast from Charleston, SouthCarolina, to Jacksonville, Florida.For use by freed African Americans.
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The refugee crisis promoted Crongress to establish the Bureau of Refugees Freedmen and Abondaned Lands. the Bureau was given the task of feeding and clothing war refugees in the South using surplus army supplies.
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Linclon was warned not to go anywhere unescorted. He went to Ford's Theatre with his wife to watch a play, unescorted, and got shot by the actor John Wilkes.
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Johnson offered to pardon all former citizens of the Conferdracy who took an oath of loyalty to the Union and to return their property. He excluded from the pardon former Confederate officere and officials as well as all former Confederates who owned property worth more than $20,000.
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This is a model of how Johnson wanted to restore the South to the Union. Each former Confederate state had to call a constitutional convention to tecoke its ordinance of secession and ratify the Thirteenth Amendment.
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It helped prevent mass starvation in the South. Gave food to thoes who couldn't feed themselves.
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The election of former Confederates to office and the introduction of the black codes convienced man moderate Republicans to join the Radicals opposing Johnson's Reconstruction policies. Their goal was to develope thier own program for rebuilding the Union.
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The act granted citizenship to all persons born in the US except Native Americans. It allowed African Americans to own property and stated that they were to be treated equally in court
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This amendment granted citizenship to all persons born or naturalized in the US. Declared that no state could deprive any person of the life, liberty, or property "without due process of law".
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The KKK's goal was to drive out the Union troops, carpet baggers, and regain control of the South for the Democratic Party. Hooded, white-robed Klan members rode in bands at night terrorizing supporters of the Republican governments.
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It essentially wiped out Johnson's programs. The act divided the former Confederacy, except for Tennessee, into five military districts.
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The House of Representatives charged Hohnson with "high crimes and misdemeanors" in office. The main charge aginst hin was that he had broken the law by fefusing to uphold the Terue of Office Act.
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seven Republican senators joined with the Democrats in refusing to convict Johnson. These senators believed that it would set a dangerous precedent to impeach a president simply because he did not agree with congressional policies.
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The presence of Union troops in the South enabled African Americans to vote in large numbers. As a result, Grant won six Southern states and most Northern states.
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Recognizing the importance of African American suffrage, the Republican-led Congress passed the Fifteenth Amendment to the Constitution. This amendment declared that the right to vote "shall not be denied...on accoutn of race, color, or previous condition of servitude".
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The first act made it a federal crime to interfere with a citizen's right to vote. the second put federal elections under the supervision of federal marshals.
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This act outlawed the activities of the Klan. Local authorities and federal agents arrested more than 3,000 Klan members throughout the South.
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The panic prompted scores of smaller banks to close and the stock market to plummet. Thousands of susinesses shut down, and tens of thousands of Americans were thrown out of work.
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A group of government officials and distillers in St. Louis cheated the govenrment out of millions of dollars by filing false tex reports. It was reported that Orville E. Bobcock, Grant's private secretary, was in thes group, although the charges were never proven.
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New South- a phrase coined by Henry Grady, Ditor of the Atlanta Constitution. They were convinced that the region had to develope a strong industrial economy
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Historians are not sure if a deal really took place or what its exact terms were. The compromise reportedly included a promise by the Republicans to pull federal troops out of the South, if Hayes was elected.
