History Notes - Reconstruction Begins 1865 Ends 1877 13th...

Reconstruction
Begins 1865 Ends 1877
• 13 th Amendment – abolished slavery
• 14
th
Amendment – civil rights bill
• 15 th Amendment – addressed suffrage
Problems with 15 th Amendment – loopholes and widespread disenfranchisement
Later Reconstruction
1) Johnson’s Plan
2) Radical Reconstruction
a) 5 military districts
b) Large scale disenfranchisement
c) 13
th
and 14
th
Amendments Guarantee black suffrage
d) Did not want federal government responsible for black rights
Trouble in the South
• Ku Klux Klan
• Force Acts of 1870 and 1871
• KKK successful curbed