Houghton Mifflin Social Studies
Chapter 13, Lesson 2, Radical Reconstruction (pp. 385-390)
I. Congress Challenges Johnson
B. Under Radical Reconstruction, Congress dissolved most Confederate
state governments and divided the area into five military districts,
to be ruled by martial law until the states ratified the Fourteenth Amendment.
C. Many Southern blacks voted for the first time and elected
Republicans to their state legislatures and as governors.
II. Johnson Stands Trial
B. In February, 1868, Congress impeached Johnson, which meant
they charged him with misconduct and attempted to remove him from office.
C. When the Senate voted, Johnson was acquitted and allowed to
stay in office by one vote.
III. African Americans Enter Politics
B. At the national level, sixteen blacks were elected to the
House of Representatives and two were elected to the Senate.
IV. Reshaping the South
B . Some white Southerners, called scalawags, supported
Reconstruction and cooperated with the Republicans.
V. Rebuilding the South
B. Radical Republicans pushed the passage of the Fifteenth
Amendment, which guaranteed black men the right to vote, but
it did not set up standard voting requirements for all states.
Lesson at a Glance Outline
A. After Radical Republicans won a majority in Congress in 1866, they
threw out Johnson's Reconstruction plan and created their own plan.
A. Congress and President Johnson continued to clash over
Reconstruction policies and his attempt to fire the Secretary of War.
A. Blacks were elected to many state offices such as lieutenant
governor, treasurer, secretary of state, and other legislative positions.
A. Many Northerners, known as carpetbaggers, went to the South for
political or financial gain, to help freedmen, or to make the South
more like the North.
A. Political corruption existed in both Southern and Northern
governments, but in the South, whites blamed the corruption on
Republican policies.
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