Chapter 17: Reconstruction: North and South
Chapter 17: Reconstruction: North and South Reconstruction From 1865 - 1877 Period of complexity and social turbulence The War’s Aftermath North Passed Morrill Tariff → doubled the average level of import duties The National Banking Act → uniform baking system 1st transcontinental railroad from Omaha, Nebraska to Sacramento, California Homestead Act of 1862 → Congress provided free federal homesteads of 160 acres to settlers to live in for 5 years to gain title Morrill Land Grant Act → 30,000 acres of federal land per member of Congress from the state Economy of post-war South Property values collapsed Bonds and confederate money ⇒ worthless Railroads ⇒ destroyed Emancipation = south loses $4 Billion invested in human labor Cotton market ⇒ over Emotional loss → lost son, husbands, and body parts Freedmen’s Bureau 1865 by General Oliver O. Howard “Freed slaves ‘must be free to choose their own employers, and be paid for their labor’” Had agents to oversee negotiations The Battle ...