https://padlet.com/byrds7242/px4hwk0fqqn7knpw Major Events of The Reconstruction Era en-us 2022-03-07 13:50:28 UTC 2025-11-16 11:05:13 UTC hello@padlet.com byrds7242 https://padlet.com/byrds7242/px4hwk0fqqn7knpw/wish/2081691883 -Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation in 1863 but this did not make slaves free 
- The Freedmen's Bureau in 1865 gave newly freed slaves food, shelter, medical aid, and land
-Created labor contracts and helped meet the basic needs of displaced people

<sup>Sources:

https://www.senate.gov/artandhistory/history/common/generic/FreedmensBureau.htm
https://www.history.com/topics/black-history/freedmens-bureau</sup>


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-President Lincoln's plan for Reconstruction was to get others to join the union using the 10 Percent Plan
-In his last speech he talked about black suffrage
-He believed in states' rights to exercise their "authority"
-He was shot at 7:22 am and became the first assassinated president

^{Sources:
https://www.crf-usa.org/bill-of-rights-in-action/bria-22-4-b-slavery-civil-war-and-democracy-what-did-lincoln-believe.html#:~:text=Lincoln%20believed%20that%20American%20democracy,who%20should%20exercise%20these%20rights.
https://www.sparknotes.com/history/american/reconstruction/section1/#:~:text=Lincoln's%20blueprint%20for%20Reconstruction%20included,of%20allegiance%20to%20the%20Union.}

]]> 2022-03-07 13:59:21 UTC https://padlet.com/byrds7242/px4hwk0fqqn7knpw/wish/2081692707 byrds7242 https://padlet.com/byrds7242/px4hwk0fqqn7knpw/wish/2081693904 -Johnson supported the white South 
-He was not very helpful in the transition of black Southerners from slaves to freedom
-The union army eventually is demobilized because people are enraged when Johnson claims the Reconstruction process is complete after being lenient with slaves

Sources:
https://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/exhibits/reconstruction/section4/section4_presrecon.html#:~:text=section4&text=In%201865%20President%20Andrew%20Johnson,the%20politics%20of%20the%20South.]]> 2022-03-07 13:59:51 UTC https://padlet.com/byrds7242/px4hwk0fqqn7knpw/wish/2081693904 byrds7242 https://padlet.com/byrds7242/px4hwk0fqqn7knpw/wish/2081694368 -Designed to limit Black people's freedom
-Made freed people still "enslaved" because they could never build status
- Targeted/discriminated against POC to further support the Republican/Johnson political parties which favored white southerners

^{Sources:
https://www.history.com/topics/black-history/black-codes}]]> 2022-03-07 14:00:04 UTC https://padlet.com/byrds7242/px4hwk0fqqn7knpw/wish/2081694368 byrds7242 https://padlet.com/byrds7242/px4hwk0fqqn7knpw/wish/2081694777 "'Passed by Congress on January 31, 1865, and ratified on December 6, 1865, the 13th amendment abolished slavery in the United States and provides that "Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.'"

This...
-Abolished slavery in all U.S territories
-Outlawed involuntary servitude


<sup>Sources: 
https://www.archives.gov/historical-docs/13th-amendment#:~:text=Passed%20by%20Congress%20on%20January,within%20the%20United%20States%2C%20or

https://www.nationalgeographic.org/encyclopedia/13th-amendment-united-states-constitution/#:~:text=The%2013th%20Amendment%20forever%20abolished,order%20to%20pay%20off%20debts.</sup>]]> 2022-03-07 14:00:15 UTC https://padlet.com/byrds7242/px4hwk0fqqn7knpw/wish/2081694777 byrds7242 https://padlet.com/byrds7242/px4hwk0fqqn7knpw/wish/2081695291 -Angry white people (more commonly Southerners) who used violence and intimidation to put black people down
-Aimed to instill fear in people of color
-Terrorized newly freed slaves

^{Sources:
https://www.history.com/topics/reconstruction/ku-klux-klan}


]]> 2022-03-07 14:00:28 UTC https://padlet.com/byrds7242/px4hwk0fqqn7knpw/wish/2081695291 byrds7242 https://padlet.com/byrds7242/px4hwk0fqqn7knpw/wish/2081695719 -Defined Citizenship
-Ensured equal protection
-President Johnson veto was overturned by 39th U.S Congress

^{Sources:
https://ballotpedia.org/Civil_Rights_Act_of_1866}]]> 2022-03-07 14:00:38 UTC https://padlet.com/byrds7242/px4hwk0fqqn7knpw/wish/2081695719 byrds7242 https://padlet.com/byrds7242/px4hwk0fqqn7knpw/wish/2081696376 -White officer attempted to wrongly arrest a black ex-soldier and black people gathered to stop the jailing
-Riot showed white peoples lack of acceptance of the civil rights of freed slaves

^{Sources: 
https://www.britannica.com/event/Memphis-Race-Riot
https://www.blackpast.org/african-american-history/memphis-riot-1866/}]]> 2022-03-07 14:00:54 UTC https://padlet.com/byrds7242/px4hwk0fqqn7knpw/wish/2081696376 byrds7242 https://padlet.com/byrds7242/px4hwk0fqqn7knpw/wish/2081696788 -Outlined the guidelines for Southern states to re-enter the union
-Slaves got national citizenship

^{Sources:
https://www.americaslibrary.gov/jb/recon/jb_recon_subj.html}

]]> 2022-03-07 14:01:06 UTC https://padlet.com/byrds7242/px4hwk0fqqn7knpw/wish/2081696788 byrds7242 https://padlet.com/byrds7242/px4hwk0fqqn7knpw/wish/2081697211 -Attempt of Ulysses Grant to find land for freed slaves
-Relocation plan that failed ]]> 2022-03-07 14:01:17 UTC https://padlet.com/byrds7242/px4hwk0fqqn7knpw/wish/2081697211 byrds7242 https://padlet.com/byrds7242/px4hwk0fqqn7knpw/wish/2081697571 -Defined Citizenship
-Enforced equal civil and legal rights for black people

^{Source:
https://www.britannica.com/topic/Fourteenth-Amendment}]]> 2022-03-07 14:01:27 UTC https://padlet.com/byrds7242/px4hwk0fqqn7knpw/wish/2081697571 byrds7242 https://padlet.com/byrds7242/px4hwk0fqqn7knpw/wish/2081698496 -Wanted to build on the 14th and 15th amendment
-Fought to protect POC rights
-Protected black men's voting rights and prevented a civil war

^{Sources:
 https://daily.jstor.org/why-ulysses-s-grant-was-more-important-than-you-think/#:~:text=In%201875%2C%20Grant%20signed%20the,a%20central%20initiative%20of%20Reconstruction.}


]]> 2022-03-07 14:01:51 UTC https://padlet.com/byrds7242/px4hwk0fqqn7knpw/wish/2081698496 byrds7242 https://padlet.com/byrds7242/px4hwk0fqqn7knpw/wish/2081698977 -Remodeled the U.S Constitution
-Had democratic principles that had never been seen before
-Black delegates  

^{Sources: 
https://www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/South-Carolina-Constitutional-Convention}]]> 2022-03-07 14:02:04 UTC https://padlet.com/byrds7242/px4hwk0fqqn7knpw/wish/2081698977 byrds7242 https://padlet.com/byrds7242/px4hwk0fqqn7knpw/wish/2081699424 -Gave black men the right to vote
-Some discriminatory voting practices made it hard for black people to use this right

^{Sources:
https://www.archives.gov/milestone-documents/15th-amendment#:~:text=Passed%20by%20Congress%20February%2026,men%20the%20right%20to%20vote.}]]> 2022-03-07 14:02:14 UTC https://padlet.com/byrds7242/px4hwk0fqqn7knpw/wish/2081699424 byrds7242 https://padlet.com/byrds7242/px4hwk0fqqn7knpw/wish/2081699767 -Fight between blacks and whites
-3 white and 150 black deaths
-Massacre reflects the racial tension buildup

^{Sources:
https://www.blackpast.org/african-american-history/colfax-massacre-1873/}]]> 2022-03-07 14:02:23 UTC https://padlet.com/byrds7242/px4hwk0fqqn7knpw/wish/2081699767 byrds7242 https://padlet.com/byrds7242/px4hwk0fqqn7knpw/wish/2081700117 -Used violence and intimidation to terrorize black people to limit black power and enforce white control
-It was the intimidation of voters

^{Sources:
https://www.blackpast.org/african-american-history/black-and-tan-republicans/#:~:text=The%20violence%20and%20intimidation%20of,the%20Democrats%20or%20quit%20politics.}]]> 2022-03-07 14:02:34 UTC https://padlet.com/byrds7242/px4hwk0fqqn7knpw/wish/2081700117 byrds7242 https://padlet.com/byrds7242/px4hwk0fqqn7knpw/wish/2081700791 -Unwritten
-Settled Presidential dispute
-Ended Reconstruction Era

^{Sources:
https://www.history.com/topics/us-presidents/compromise-of-1877}]]> 2022-03-07 14:02:53 UTC https://padlet.com/byrds7242/px4hwk0fqqn7knpw/wish/2081700791