Objective: Students will compare and contrast Lincoln’s and Johnson’s plans for reconstructing the South in order to evaluate their effect on southern society.

Warm-up Using the textbook American Pageant, pages A16-A17 in the back, explain what each of the following amendments did in relation to Blacks after the Civil War * 13 th Amendment, 14 th Amendment, 15 th Amendment

Reconstruction A. Civil War ends * What is the status of the freed slaves? - How can the southern states be readmitted to the Union? * Two questions must be answered:

Black Population in the South After the Civil War

B. Freedmen’s Bureau * Helps: - find homes and jobs - settle labor disputes - build hospitals - with legal aid - build schools / train teachers * Howard University 1867

C. Lincoln’s Reconstruction Plan * “10% Plan” * Wanted southern states readmitted quickly, easily * Southern state readmitted when 10% of voters sign a loyalty oath * New state constitutions must ban slavery * States must provide free education to freedmen

Assassinates Lincoln on April 14, 1865 … John Wilkes Booth … making Vice President Andrew Johnson the new president.

D. Johnson’s Reconstruction Plan * Similar to Lincoln’s * Creates military districts in the South * States must ratify 13 th Amendment (abolishes slavery)

* Plan is unsuccessful - Pardons most southern elite / many regain political power - New state constitutions only slight revisions of old - Freedmen not given right to vote - Southern states pass “Black Codes”

Typical Black Codes Freedmen forbidden to: Serve on juries vote carry weapons without a license hold public office own land be out after curfew travel without a permit

Other Black Codes Required freedmen to have a license to work in a trade Allowed the arrest and fining of unemployed Freedmen Allowed an employer to pay the Freedmen’s fine in exchange for that person’s labor

ASSIGNMENT Analyzing Documents: Reconstruction