Wednesday Notes, 5th Period

Welcome back! Hope everyone's break was fun! Alrighty so today we watched a movie and Mr. G handed out the Ap Exam info. I took notes on the movie just in case you missed it:Reconstruction! Lee surrenders to Grant leaving the south in ruins. -Lincoln is assassinated by John Wilkes Booth at the Theatre. -Andrew Johnson takes over as President and quickly pardons a lot of ex-Confederates. -Black Codes were introduced (the were almost exactly like slavery, but without the term "slavery"). -14th Amendment introduced which was supposed to give equal rights (solved the constitutional and political problemsof Reconstruction). -Reconstruction Act of 1867 divided the South into five military districts. -this caused Radical Reconstruction. -Ulysses S. Grant won Presidency as the 18th President. -15th Amendment is introduced and let blacks "participate in American Society," this amendment did not include womens rights. -in 1869, Elizabeth Stanton and Susan B. Anthony wanted a 16th Amendment for womens rights. -South wanted to reinstate slavery, Congress tries to not let this happen by proposing the Freedmen's Bureau to protect blacks rights. -Black education boomed, having 9000 teachers at over 4000 schools. -Congress repealed the Black Codes, let women own land, and stated that all men could vote. -Lynching became frequent. -the KKK terrorized and intimidated blacks, slave sympathizers, and anyone tolerating slave freedom. -The Force Acts of 1870 made these voilent groups suceed a little bit. -Horace Greely (Presidential Candidate) wanted to give up on Reconstruction. -in the Election of 1876, Tilden vs. Hayes was supposed to be decised by Congress because it was too close, but Congress was split, so they had to set up an Electoral Commission. -Hayes wins. -Hayes withdraws federal troops from the South. -to restore the South, citizens realize their biggest source of money came from cotton in the past, so they try cotton again. -Sharecropping became big/helped cotton after the 14th amendment. -Sotuherrn Homestead Act is introduced:gives blacks land. -Jim Crow Laws forbade blacks from using different amenities. -Whites used violence and intimidation to control blacks. -Plessy vs. Ferguson in 1896. That's all I got. Please keep Blair Beck and her family in your thoughts and your prayers these next couple days, her Grandmother passed away. -Liz