Reconstruction: Success or Failure by Sierra Brown https://padlet.com/2207881/e29a6rs4koyt en-us 2016-08-31 17:40:59 UTC 2016-09-07 17:58:59 UTC hello@padlet.com Freedmen’s Bureau 2207881 https://padlet.com/2207881/e29a6rs4koyt/wish/120919718 The U.S. Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands, popularly known as the Freedmen’s Bureau, was established in 1865 by Congress to help former black slaves and poor whites in the South in the aftermath of the U.S. Civil War (1861-65).]]> 2016-08-31 18:17:05 UTC https://padlet.com/2207881/e29a6rs4koyt/wish/120919718 Military Reconstruction Act  2207881 https://padlet.com/2207881/e29a6rs4koyt/wish/121393552 2016-09-02 17:52:48 UTC https://padlet.com/2207881/e29a6rs4koyt/wish/121393552 African American  2207881 https://padlet.com/2207881/e29a6rs4koyt/wish/121394752 The 15th Amendment to the Constitution granted African American men the right to vote by declaring that the "right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude."

]]> 2016-09-02 17:56:32 UTC https://padlet.com/2207881/e29a6rs4koyt/wish/121394752 Compromise of 1877 2207881 https://padlet.com/2207881/e29a6rs4koyt/wish/121399222 In 1867, the political battle between President Johnson and Congress over southern Reconstruction came to a confrontation. The Radical Republicans in Congress were not content with curbing Johnson’s authority by overriding his vetoes--they wanted to remove him altogether. Under the laws of the time, removing Johnson meant that Ben Wade, the president pro tempore of the Senate, would become president.


]]> 2016-09-02 18:12:16 UTC https://padlet.com/2207881/e29a6rs4koyt/wish/121399222 timeline of the reconstruction 2207881 https://padlet.com/2207881/e29a6rs4koyt/wish/121401682 2016-09-02 18:21:59 UTC https://padlet.com/2207881/e29a6rs4koyt/wish/121401682 2207881 https://padlet.com/2207881/e29a6rs4koyt/wish/121404831 2016-09-02 18:35:33 UTC https://padlet.com/2207881/e29a6rs4koyt/wish/121404831 Was reconstruction a success or a failure ? 2207881 https://padlet.com/2207881/e29a6rs4koyt/wish/122219195 A failure because Reconstruction was a success in that it restored the United States as a unified nation: by 1877, all of the former Confederate states had drafted new constitutions, acknowledged the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Amendments, and pledged their loyalty to the U.S. government.]]> 2016-09-07 17:54:37 UTC https://padlet.com/2207881/e29a6rs4koyt/wish/122219195