HIST 1103 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Reconstruction Era, Thaddeus Stevens
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There were over 620,000 men who had died: the north lost 10% of their population, the south lost 30% of their population. The south faced many material and psychological wounds. There was an end to slavery but not an end to racial discrimination. 1 in 13 of the veterans were amputated. Slavery was at the heart of the reconstruction. Freedman"s bureau (1865: to provide rations to both white and black southerners, lease confiscated land to former slaves. Slavery ceased to exists as a legal entity in the united states. Andrew johnson was a tennessee democrat and a former slave owner. He was the only elected office that stayed in congress when the south seceded. He wanted to restore the south not reconstruct it. This took the and from the freedman"s bureau and gave it back to the plantation owners. Radical republicans: free individuals competing openly in labor markets and enjoying equal political rights.
