Brief description about the Radical Republicans and how they contributed to the Reconstruction of the U.S. after the Civil War

1. RISE OF RADICAL REPUBLICANS

2. BLACK CODES
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The black codes were started immediately after
the American Civil War. Black codes were laws
that limited the rights of Blacks. The Black codes
were intended to keep Black people from gaining
political or economic power.
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Black codes kept freedmen from voting, owning
guns or serving on juries (unless it involved other
Blacks)

3. BLACKS CODES

In some states Blacks could only work as
servants or farm laborers. Blacks had to
sign contracts for a year's work. If you did
not have a contract you could be arrested
and sentenced to work on a plantation.

4. 
Apprentice laws provided for the “hiring out” of
orphans and other young dependents to whites,
who often turned out to be their former owners.
Some states limited the type of property blacks
could own, and in other states blacks were
excluded from certain businesses or from the
skilled trades. Legal marriage between blacks
was provided for, but interracial marriage was
prohibited.

5. CONGRESS REACTS TO BLACK
CODES BY PASSING 14TH & 15TH
AMENDMENTS
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When riots and
violence broke across
the country against
Blacks, the Radical
Republicans vowed to
take control of
Reconstruction.

6. RADICAL REPUBLICANS PASS THE
14TH AMENDMENT 1866

7. RADICAL REPUBLICANS PASS THE
15TH AMENDMENT 1870

8. BLACKS GAIN POLICITAL AND
ECONOMIC POWER

9. JOHNSON IS IMPEACHED!!

Johnson fired his
Secretary of State. He
did this because he
thought he was disloyal.
This made the Senate
vote for impeachment of
Johnson. Impeachment
involves someone who
was elected to an office.
He is accused of doing
something wrong.

10. JOHNSON IS FOUND NOT GUILTY

Congress tries the
case and decides if
the person is guilty. If
he is found guilty, he
loses his job.
Johnson was not
found guilty.

11. A NEW PRESIDENT IS ELECTED

Republicans
nominated the
Union's greatest war
hero, Ulysses S.
Grant. He became
President easily by
getting mostly all the
Black votes. 500,000
Black men voted in
the election.

12. QUESTIONS???
1. WHAT WERE BLACK CODES?
2.HOW DID CONGRESS REACT TO THE USE
OF BLACK CODES?
3.WHEN RIOTS AND VIOLENCE BROKE
ACROSS THE COUNTRY, WHO VOWED TO
TAKE CONTROL OF RECONSTRUCTION?

13. QUESTIONS???
4. WHAT DID THE 14TH AMENDMENT ALLOW?
5. WHAT DID THE 15TH AMENDMENT ALLOW?
6. WHY WAS JOHNSON IMPEACHED?
7. WHO BECAME THE 18TH PRESIDENT OF
THE UNITED STATES?