1. CHAPTER 17:
Reconstruction
Section 1:
Rebuilding the South

2. VOCABULARY
 Amnesty: An official pardon

3. RECONSTRUCTION
 Reconstruction was the process of
readmitting the Southern states into
the Union – 1865-1877
• Different ideas on how to do this

4. DAMAGED SOUTH
 Cities ruined

5. Richmond
after the War

6. Southern
Factories
after the War

7. DAMAGED SOUTH
 People jobless

8. DAMAGED SOUTH
 Confederate money worthless

9. LINCOLN’S PLAN
 Lincoln’s Ten Percent Plan offered
amnesty to all Southerners
• Must swear an
oath of loyalty to
the U.S.
• Must agree slavery
was illegal

10. LINCOLN’S PLAN
 When 10% of a state’s population
swore the oath, the state could be
readmitted to the Union

11. LINCOLN’S PLAN
 Very lenient plan

12. WADE-DAVIS BILL
 Congress disagreed
 The Wade-Davis Bill called for:
• Each state to formally outlaw
slavery
• Majority of people to take the
oath
• No Confederate soldiers could
hold office or vote
 Much stricter plan

13. FREEDOM FOR
AFRICAN AMERICANS
 13th Amendment – Made slavery
illegal in 1865

14. FREEDOM FOR
AFRICAN AMERICANS
 Freedpeople were poor, jobless,
uneducated, nowhere to go

15. Many Freedpeople
Moved to the Cities

16. “40 Acres and a Mule”

17. FREEDMEN’S BUREAU
 Congress established the
Freedmen’s Bureau
• Agency that provided relief and
established schools for freedpeople

18. A Freedmen’s Bureau School

19. LINCOLN’S
ASSASSINATION
 April 14 th,1865 – Lincoln
attended a play at Ford’s Theatre

20. Inside Ford’s Theatre

21. LINCOLN’S
ASSASSINATION
 John Wilkes Booth shot Lincoln

22. The Assassination of Lincoln

23. “Sic semper
tyrannis!”

24. LINCOLN’S
ASSASSINATION
 Vice President
Andrew Johnson is
sworn is as
President