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Andrew Johnson Presidential Reconstruction
Presentation by Robert Martinez Primary Content
Source Reconstructing America by Joy
Hakim Images as cited.
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  • It was an actors bullet (John Wilkes Booth)
    that gave the country a new president. People
    didnt know quite what to expect of President
    Johnson.

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  • Before the war, Johnson was a Democrat and a
    slave owner. He was a Senator when the Southern
    states, including Tennessee, seceded.

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  • Even though Johnson was a Democrat, and
    Lincoln a Republican, Abraham Lincoln asked
    Andrew Johnson to be vice-president.

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  • Now that the war was over, it was time for
    healing. Most people were encouraged. Johnson
    seemed like the perfect person to bring the North
    and South together again.

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  • After all, Johnson was a Southerner who had
    the courage to stay with the Union. Both
    Democrats and Republicans supported him.

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  • But those who knew Johnson werent so sure.
    Yes, he had courage, but he was also extremely
    stubborn. He didnt ask for advice, or listen
    when it was given.

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  • Lincoln asked questions, listened, and changed
    his mind when he thought it needed changing. He
    knew how to compromise. Andrew Johnson was
    uncompromising.

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  • During the first two years of Reconstruction,
    President Andrew Johnson was in control. That
    time is called Presidential Reconstruction.

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  • In the beginning things seemed to go well.
    Congress created a Freedmans Bureau. It was to
    help the newly freed blacks. They need food,
    clothing, and shelter.

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  • Some Northerners went south to help. Many of
    them were teachers. The Freedmans Bureau began
    operating schools.

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  • In the years of the Confederacy, every
    Southern state except Tennessee had laws making
    it a crime to teach slaves to read and write.

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  • Now, as free people, they were thirsty for
    knowledge. When schools opened, parents often sat
    in the classrooms with children.

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  • But its hard to learn if youre hungry, and
    many Southerners were hungry. The Freedmans
    Bureau kept most people from starving. Clothing
    was also distributed.

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  • Northern soldiers kept order in the South.
    Just looking at those blue uniforms upset many
    Southerners. And some whites couldnt accept the
    idea of a society where people were equal.

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  • In protest, thousands of Southerners left the
    country for Mexico and South America. Former
    Confederate General Robert E. Lee was not pleased
    to see them leave the United States.

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  • Virginia has need for all her sons and can
    ill afford to spare youAbandon all these local
    animosities and make your sons Americans.
  • Robert E. Lee

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  • Many white people in the South were willing to
    be good United States citizens, except when it
    came to treating their fellow black citizens
    fairly.

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  • Right after the war, most of the same Southern
    leaders were in charge, and every Southern state
    passed laws that discriminated against blacks.

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  • The laws were called black codes. they made
    blacks practically slaves again. The codes gave
    whites almost unlimited powers. No Southern state
    would establish public schools for blacks.

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  • Some whites put masks over their faces and
    burned black churches and schools. They
    terrorized and killed blacks. These were members
    of a newly formed hate group called the Ku Klux
    Klan.

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  • When Southern states sent representatives to
    Congress, they sent former Confederate officers
    and politicians. Northerners were outraged.
    General Grant had paroled the Rebel soldiers, but
    should they be rewarded and made congressmen?

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  • President Johnson asked the Southern states to
    protect the freedmens rights, but didnt do
    anything to make them.

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  • In addition, Johnson was being nasty to
    Southerners who had supported the Union (as he
    had done.) He seemed to be taking sides with the
    South, when he should have tried to be president
    for all the people.

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