Radical Reconstruction Objective Question: Why was the Radical Republican plan for Reconstruction considered “radical”?

Objective Question: Which plan do you think would be more likely to unite the country after the Civil War? HW: Read Ch. 12, Section 1. Answer questions B, 2, and 4 on pg. 382 with Cornell notes due Wed.

Write a list of issues the country has to handle following the Civil War.

Major questions following the Civil War How to rebuild the South How to bring Southern states back to the United States How to bring former slaves into the United States as free people

Consequences for Confederate States Should people who fought against the United States be allowed to become citizens? Should they be punished? What should be done to Southern state governments that fought against the U.S.?

Freedmen How would freed men and women be treated in the Southern states? What do you think were some of the major challenges faced by former slaves? At the end of the Civil War, there were hundreds of thousands former slaves living in the former Confederate States.

Reconstruction Background Reconstruction: 1865-1877, period following Civil War Andrew Johnson POTUS, Southern Democrat, sympathized w/ South Congress opposed Johnson many called “Radical Republicans” wanted extreme changes in society including: punishing South for Civil War giving Freedmen equal rights.

13th Amendment: Dec. 1865 Abolished slavery 14th Amendment: 1868 Citizenship 15th Amendment: 1870 Voting

Directions 1.) Individually read the 1st excerpt by Thaddeus Stevens, a Radical Republican. 2.) Answer questions from his excerpt. 3.) Do the same for Andrew Johnson’s speech. 4.) Write the paragraph from the last directions on the back of the packet.