Chapter+4-1.+Presidential+Reconstruction

Chapter 4-1: Presidential Reconstruction

Key Terms/Words:
 * Amnesty: proclamation
 * Thirteenth Amendment: Johnson overlooked the state's refusal to the amendment
 * Black Codes: laws limiting the freedom of former slaves

Key People:
 * John Wilkes Booth: confederate sympathizer shot the president as he and his wife watched the Ford's Theater in Washington
 * Andrew Johnson: Vice president became president after Lincoln died

Key Events: The Old South Destroyed President Lincoln and Reconstruction President Johnson and Reconstruction The Black Codes
 * Civil War inflicted devastation on the south
 * Also its economy
 * illness swept the region
 * 4 million slaves became homeless and penniless
 * Amnesty: proclamation offered
 * Proclamation swore allegiance to U.S constitution and to accept laws of slavery
 * Many members of congress did not like the proclamation and did not trust confederates
 * John Wilkes Booth: confederate sympathizer shot the president as he and his wife watched the Ford's Theater in Washington
 * Assassination increased the distrust between the North and the South
 * Andrew Johnson: Vice president became president after Lincoln died
 * Thirteenth Amendment: Johnson overlooked the state's refusal to the amendment
 * Black Codes: laws limiting the freedom of former slaves
 * Varied from state to state
 * Southerners tried to force former slaves to return
 * The codes also allowed judges to decide whether African American parents could support their children
 * Northerners criticized the Black Codes as an attempt to re-establish slavery