Ch 12 Reconstruction Lincolns Plan for Reconstruction Reconstruction
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Ch 12 Reconstruction
Lincoln’s Plan for Reconstruction • • Reconstruction— Lenient plan from Lincoln 10% Plan AR, LA, TN, VA ready for readmission Radical Republicans Thaddeus Stevens Wade-Davis Bill Lincoln used the…
• Democrat Johnson takes over • Traitor? • AL, FL, GA, MS, NC, SC, TX had to meet several conditions… • Only difference from Lincoln’s plan… • Needs of former slaves? • All but TX drew up… • MS didn’t ratify 13 th • Dec 1865, 58 Rebels went to Congress • Radical Republicans not happy • Freedmen’s Bureau • Civil Rights Act of 1866 • Black Codes Johnson’s Plan
Congressional Reconstruction • 14 th Amendment • Johnson told South to reject it? ? ? • 1866 Congressional Elections • • • Reconstruction Act of 1867 Impeach Johnson? Tenure of Office Act Was he? Election of 1868 15 th Amendment
Politics in the Postwar South • Scalawags • Carpetbaggers • African Americans in politics • Hiram Revels • 40 acres and a mule • Sharecropping • Tenant Farming
The Collapse of Reconstruction • • KKK What did they do? Enforcement Acts Amnesty Act • Republican problems under US Grant • Grant vs. Greeley
Democrats “Redeem” the South • Redemption • Hayes vs. Tilden in 1876 • Tilden won popular vote… • Compromise of 1877 • Home Rule
