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Reconstruction plan Lincoln's PLAN of RECONSTRUCTION In 1863, Lincoln wanted to restore civil governement in conquered areas of the Civil War, where military governement
Following the Civil War III. The Presidential Reconstruction Plan IV. The Congressional Reconstruction Plan V. Economic Reform VI. Social Strife VII. Conclusion VIII.
Reconstruction of the South President Abraham Lincoln envisioned a conservative plan for the reconstruction of the south. Under Lincoln's plan, as soon as ten percent
and because the north won, the south never actually succeeded. This resulted in their reconstruction plan to be very kind to the south. They required for each southern
of the greatest peacemakers of the time. Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation, a reconstruction plan, helped in ending the horrible Civil War, and many other
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Lincoln's PLAN of RECONSTRUCTION
In 1863, Lincoln wanted to restore civil governement in conquered areas of the Civil War, where military governement rulled by the right of conquest.
On December, 8 1863, Lincold proposed a PLAN of RECONSTRUCTION:
It offered pardon, to any Confederate who would swear to support the Constitution and the Union. If 1/10 of that state's total vote in the election of 1860 took the oath of loyality , they were to form state governements which
he promised to recognize.
CONGRESSIONAL RECONSTRUCTION
Louisiana, Tenessee and Arkansas followed this procedure, but the Congress still refuse to recognize their new representatives.
Wade-Davis Bill of July 1864 : Conquered states were territories and subjet to control by Congress.
Lincoln used his pocket veto.
He was assassinated in April 1865.
Radical Republicans, led by Charles Sumner, and Thaddeus Stevens, opposed a lenient Reconstruction plan.
Republicans wanted to guarantee
Negro suffrage, who would be grateful to the Republican Party.
Creation of the Freedmen's Bureau by the R. :
Aid for refugees
Distributed rations
Found employment
Transported home those displaced by the war
Established schools and hospitals
JOHNSON AND RECONSTRUCTION
Andrew Johnson, anti-black and anti-aristocratic. Poor white, always loyal to the Union, slave owner, consider the Negro inferior.
First Tn Senator, then Lincoln's Vice President. Democrat.
Lenient policy towards the South.
He appointed civil governors to southern states, and authorised new constitutions, even before Lincoln's 1/10.
By 1865, all but Tx had their own governements. Each of the state legislature, except Tn, enacted Black Codes to maintain the substance of slavery.
These codes:
Deprived Negroes of the...
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