Reconstruction Video

Reconstruction Vid Notes: 

• In South Carolina, a 21-year-old man carried out a mass shooting in a Black church, killing many innocent people, highlighting the ongoing impact of Reconstruction’s collapse.

  
  
  

• During Reconstruction, Black men served in the U.S. Senate, showing progress in racial equality.

• 180,000 formerly enslaved Black men joined the Army, playing a crucial role in ending slavery and ensuring Union victory in the Civil War.

• Reconstruction was an effort to unify American society after slavery and define what it meant to be a citizen.

• The North and South disagreed on Reconstruction, with the South resisting the changes even after
  losing the war.

• President Abraham Lincoln advocated for voting rights for some Black men, but John Wilkes Booth assassinated him after this speech.

• Andrew Johnson became president after Lincoln's assassination; as a Southern Democrat, he sympathized with plantation owners and was unsupportive of Black rights.

  

• To put an end to slavery and guarantee the Union's victory in the Civil War, 180,000 Black males who had previously been enslaved enlisted in the Army. 

• After slavery, the goal of reconstruction was to define citizenship and bring American society together.

• Despite having few resources, the Freedmen's Bureau helped former slaves by allocating land.

• The "Black Codes," which were imposed by Andrew Johnson's Mississippi government in 1865, compelled Black adults to sign yearly labor contracts or face fines and forced labor.

• White people were able to use Black youngsters as laborers under the pretense of training them because of the Black Codes.

• Established in Tennessee in 1866, the Ku Klux Klan (KKK) aimed to stop Black people from advancing economically and socially and imposed racial injustice.

• To defend Black rights, the Republican Congress passed the Civil Rights Act of 1866, overthrowing Johnson.

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  During Reconstruction, there were violent incidents like the Memphis Massacre, which resulted in the deaths of 48 people, 46 of them were Black. The destruction of Black schools, and the burning of homes.