RECONSTRUCTION 1865 1876 WARREN Focus Activity Key Questions

RECONSTRUCTION 1865 -1876 WARREN

Focus Activity

Key Questions 1. How do we bring the South back into the Union? 2. How do we rebuild the South after its destruction during the war? 4. What branch of government should control the process of Reconstruction? 3. How do we integrate and protect newlyemancipated black freedmen?

Reconstruction and its Effects Reconstruction • The period during in which the U. S. began to rebuild after the Civil War • Process the federal government used to readmit the defeated Confederate states to the Union.

RECONSTRUCTION PLANS

1. Lincoln’s Plan Ten percent plan • The government would pardon all Confederates except high ranking officials and those accused of crimes against prisoners of war. • As soon as ten percent of those who had voted in 1860 took this oath of allegiance, a Confederate state could form a new state government. • Also, South had to accept a ban on slavery

2. Radical Republicans (congress’ plan) • Wanted to destroy the political power of former slaveholders. • Most of all, they wanted African Americans to be given full citizenship and the right to vote.

“we have turned loose 4 million slaves without a hut to shelter them or a cent in their pockets. If we do not furnish [them] with homesteads (land) and hedge (surround) them about with protective laws; if we leave them to the [governing]of their late masters, we had better have left them in bondage. ” -Thaddeus Stephens, Radical Republican

Lincoln Assassinated • John Wilkes Booth shoots and kills President Lincoln at Fords Theatre. • Andrew Johnson becomes President

3. Johnson’s Plan For Reconstruction • High-ranking Confederates and wealthy southern landowners do NOT need to take an oath of allegiance. • Pardoned more than 13, 000 former Confederates because he believed that “White men alone must manage the South. ” Click Here For Video