BACKGROUND

• The civil war caused the reform
• Confederate states
• Slavery
• Reform the Union
• Emancipation Proclimation

Thesis: Reconstruction was the most important reform period because three amendments were made, radical republicans were formed, and the capitalist America prospered.

Vocab: 13th, 14th, 15th amendments, Radical Republicans, Freedman's Bureau, Black codes, Civil Rights act, Impeach, Carpetbaggers, Scalawag, Sharecropping

13TH AMENDMENT

• Abolished slavery

14TH AMENDMENT

• Equal protection from states

15TH AMENDMENT

• Gave black men the right to vote

RADICAL REPUBLICANS

• Strongly opposed slavery
• Frequently dissagreed with Loncoln
• Tried to impeach President Johnson
• Wanted equal rights for blacks

EFFECTS ON CAPITALISM

• Slaves freed
• Stuck in lower class
• More of an equal oppurtunity
• North east manufacturing increase

PRIMARY SOURCE

• Emancipation Proclimation
• Lincoln's executive order

CURRENT CONNECTION

• 13th 14th and 15 amendment still in use
• Union still intact
• There are no more slaves
• Police shootings, 14th amendment