HST 110
New South & West
Andrew Johnson (VP of Lincoln)
Supported planter class (farmers)
From Tennessee (South)
Democrat Republican after following Lincoln
Hostile to African Americans (white supremacist)
Johnson’s Plan
“Restoration”
Amnesty for southerners who swore loyalty to Union
13th amendment needed to be ratified (ban slavery)
Southern states elect representatives for Congress
Rejection of Plan
Too lenient
Southern representatives not allowed to take seats in Congress
Impeachment (attempt to stop Reconstruction)
Tenure of Office Act
After dismissing secretary of war (1867)
Radical Reconstruction
Congress meets December 1865
14th Amendment
Born in US = citizen
15th Amendment
Voting for all race, color, or servitude
Black Codes (Jim Crow Laws)
Legal system to undermine 13th amendment
Restrictions on jobs for blacks & property ownership
Scalawags – southern whites that supported Reconstruction & Republicans
Carpetbaggers – Northern whites that moved to South during Reconstruction
Crop Lien System – leans on southern crops
Redemption – white southerners regain control
South occupied by Federal troops
Democrats regain control
South: New vs Old
New: Old:
Slavery Henry Grady (editor –leading spokesman “New South”)
Agriculture Diversification of production
Land/slaves Industrialization/Manufacturing
Western Expansion
Homestead & Transcontinental Railroad Act 1862
Homestead Act
Encouraged western settlement
Black slavery spread
160 acres
Transcontinental Railroad Act
Government grants land to Railroad companies (North route)
Used government bonds to build out west/expand
Frederick Jackson Turner
Writes paper about unique frontier (ignores Native Americans)
Encourages expansion
Manifest Destiny
Belief that US is destined to expand across North America
Importance of the Buffalo: The Native American Walmart
1. Food
2. Shelter
3. Tools
4. Religion
15-30 million buffalo in 1865 500-800 by 1890
Andrew Johnson (VP of Lincoln)
Supported planter class (farmers)
From Tennessee (South)
Democrat Republican after following Lincoln
Hostile to African Americans (white supremacist)
Johnson’s Plan
“Restoration”
Amnesty for southerners who swore loyalty to Union
13th amendment needed to be ratified (ban slavery)
Southern states elect representatives for Congress
Rejection of Plan
Too lenient
Southern representatives not allowed to take seats in Congress
Impeachment (attempt to stop Reconstruction)
Tenure of Office Act
After dismissing secretary of war (1867)
Radical Reconstruction
Congress meets December 1865
14th Amendment
Born in US = citizen
15th Amendment
Voting for all race, color, or servitude
Black Codes (Jim Crow Laws)
Legal system to undermine 13th amendment
Restrictions on jobs for blacks & property ownership
Scalawags – southern whites that supported Reconstruction & Republicans
Carpetbaggers – Northern whites that moved to South during Reconstruction
Crop Lien System – leans on southern crops
Redemption – white southerners regain control
South occupied by Federal troops
Democrats regain control
South: New vs Old
New: Old:
Slavery Henry Grady (editor –leading spokesman “New South”)
Agriculture Diversification of production
Land/slaves Industrialization/Manufacturing
Western Expansion
Homestead & Transcontinental Railroad Act 1862
Homestead Act
Encouraged western settlement
Black slavery spread
160 acres
Transcontinental Railroad Act
Government grants land to Railroad companies (North route)
Used government bonds to build out west/expand
Frederick Jackson Turner
Writes paper about unique frontier (ignores Native Americans)
Encourages expansion
Manifest Destiny
Belief that US is destined to expand across North America
Importance of the Buffalo: The Native American Walmart
1. Food
2. Shelter
3. Tools
4. Religion
15-30 million buffalo in 1865 500-800 by 1890