1. CHAPTER 17:
Reconstruction
Section 2:
The Fight over Reconstruction

2. VOCABULARY
 Impeach: To bring charges against
a public official for wrongdoing

3. PRESIDENT JOHNSON
 Democrat & former
slaveholder
 Did not believe in
equal rights for blacks
 Wanted lenient
reconstruction
 Gave pardons to
wealthy Confederate
leaders

4. RECONSTRUCTION
OVER?
 Southern states
followed
lenient plan
 Johnson
admitted them
back in as
states
• Declared
reconstruction over

5. BLACK CODES
 Southern states passed Black Codes
• Laws that limited the freedom of
African Americans

6. BLACK CODES
 Could not own property or guns
 No voting rights
 If no job, could be arrested and
forced to work for no pay

7. “This is a white man’s government, and
intended for white men only.”
-Benjamin F. Perry (Governor of South Carolina)

8. THE RADICAL
REPUBLICANS
 Radical Republicans – Northern
members of Congress
• Wanted to redo Reconstruction
• Much stricter plan on the South

9. CONGRESS TAKES CONTROL
OF RECONSTRUCTION
 Radical Republicans pass two
Constitutional Amendments
• 14 th Amendment – Gave full
citizenship to African Americans

10. CONGRESS TAKES CONTROL
OF RECONSTRUCTION
• 15th Amendment – Gave voting
rights to African American men

11. CONGRESS TAKES CONTROL
OF RECONSTRUCTION
 Also pass new Reconstruction Acts
• Divided the South into 5 military
districts
• Each one controlled by a
Northern military commander
• States must support 14 th & 15th
Amendments to be readmitted

12. Radical Reconstruction Military Districts

13. JOHNSON DISAGREES WITH
RADICAL RECONSTRUCTION
 Johnson tried to veto the Radical
Reconstruction Acts
 Opposed the Amendments

14. THE PRESIDENT ON TRIAL
 Congress passed a law that forbid
the President from removing cabinet
officials without Senate approval
 Johnson then fired Sec. of War
Edwin Stanton
Ha ha, they can’t tell
You’re Darn
fired!
me what to do!

15. THE PRESIDENT ON TRIAL
 Congress voted to impeach
Johnson

16. THE PRESIDENT ON TRIAL
 Johnson then went to the Senate
for a trial
• 2/3rds vote would remove him
from office

17. The
Impeachment
Trial of
Andrew
Johnson
Oh
crap!

18. THE PRESIDENT ON TRIAL
 Johnson is saved by one single vote
Whew!
That was
close.

19. THE PRESIDENTIAL
ELECTION OF 1868
 Johnson does
not run
 Republican
Ulysses S. Grant
wins
• He supports
Radical
Reconstruction