Planning Reconstruction Chapter 18, Lesson 1 Planning Reconstruction

Reconstruction Debate Rebuilding & readmitting former CSA to USA President & Congress had different ideas on how to do this http://youtu.be/BJLBrDSTgng

Reconstruction Debate Lincoln wanted to make it easy 10% of state takes oath and state has Constitution to ban slavery Offered amnesty: forgiveness for crimes to most Not to Confederate leaders

Radical Republicans Thought Lincoln’s plan too easy Led by Thaddeus Stevens (PA) Wanted southern states broken up & rebuilt Controlled Congress (2/3 maj)

Radical Republicans White men must pledge loyalty to Union White who didn’t fight could vote for state constitutional delegates New states had to ban slavery Lincoln “pocket vetoed” Wade-Davis Bill

Freedmen’s Bureau Provided food, clothing, medical care to poor Southerners, especially freed slaves Set up schools, some w/ teachers from North Helped get own land and good jobs http://youtu.be/TPb1rFEoseE

Johnson’s Plan Lincoln Assassinated April 14, 1865 at Ford’s Theater in DC by John Wilkes Booth VP Andrew Johnson becomes President Would give amnesty to most Southerners Confederate leaders had to almost beg Opposed equal rights for African Americans

Johnson

Johnson’s Plan White Supremacist “white men alone must manage the South” Southern states must outlaw slavery Ratify 13th Amendment: Abolish slavery By end of 1865, all states but Texas were ready to rejoin the Union