By Skylar Peterson A4

It is a plan Abraham Lincoln offered to the southern states, it said that a state could be included into the union when 10% of the 1860 vote count from that state had taken an oath of allegiance to the U.S. and pledged to abide by emancipation. All who lived in the state would be granted a full pardon except for high ranking confederate army officers and government officials. WHAT IS THE TEN PERCENT PLAN?

The Wade-Davis Bill was written in 1864 by two radical Republicans, Senator Benjamin Wade of Ohio and representative Henry winter Davis of Maryland. They were forced to take the Ironclad Oath. Abraham Lincoln and Andrew Johnson did not agree with the bill and both pocket voted it. They said the reconstruction was a time to come together not to make them swear by an oath. Ironclad Oath: A person had to swear they never bore arms against the Union or supported the Confederacy. WHAT WAS THE WADE-DAVIS BILL? Effect on the south: It always got pocketed so it never went into effect. No effect.

The 13 th amendment was able to demolish slavery. Slavery was now against the law unless it was punishment for a crime. WHAT DID THE 13 TH AMENDMENT ACHIEVE? How did the change the lives of enslaved African-Americans: They were all free now, most did not know what to do. In the south everyone was so used to African- Americans being slaves they did not know how to live any differently. Many of them stayed with their masters and tried to collect payment that usually didn’t work out for them. They gave them small wages and treated them the same as before.

Many people thought that African-Americans should not be able to be citizens of the United States. Sec. 1: Defines citizen ship of the United States and Protects individual rights. Citizen Ship Clause: All persons born or nationalized in the united states and subject to the Jurisdiction of, are citizens of the United States and of the state where they reside. WHAT ISSUE DID THE 14 TH AMENDMENT ADDRESS, AND HOW DID IT EFFECT THE CONGRESSIONAL ELECTIONS OF 1886 Effect on enslaved African-Americans: The 14 th amendment granted an automatic citizenship to any baby born in The United States. Even if the mother was here illegally the child will still get full citizenship from the government.

The 15 th amendment was put in place on February 3, It granted the right to vote to every citizen of The United States no matter on race, color, or previous condition of servitude. WHAT DID THE 15 TH AMENDMENT ACHIEVE? Effecting lives of enslaved African-Americans: It would take the passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 before the majority of African Americans in the South were registered to vote. The South did everything they could do to make sure African-American did not vote and they were effective and able to delay it.

HOW DID LINCOLN'S ASSASSINATION EFFECT THE NATION? How did it effect the reconstruction: after Lincolns death he left Johnson as President. He did not have a collage education but was a former slave owner who was also from the south. Lincoln always looked at the reconstruction as time for them to heal as a nation they treated it as a lost brother coming home.

His amnesty proclamation (May 29, 1865) was much more severe than Lincoln’s. it wouldn’t let any of the former confederacy officers or military and those who owned property worth more that 100,000 and made their state liable to confiscation. The intent was mostly to take the government in the south from those with money and give it to the farmers and smaller business men it was suppose to accomplish a revolution in the south. WHAT WAS PRESIDENT JOHNSON’S RECONSTRUCTION PLAN? WHAT STEP DID JOHNSON REQUIRE SOUTHERN STATES TO TAKE IN ORDER TO BE READMITTED TO THE UNION Johnson required the states to hold a constitutional convention and agree to many other conditions: oaths, slavery abolishment, etc.….

There was a lot of segregation with Blacks and Whites. Most White people still believed that the Blacks were lower than them. They treated them horribly. Blacks had rules they had to follow. HOW WERE SOUTHERN BLACKS TREATED AFTER THE CIVIL WAR AND WHY? Southern Blacks: the emancipation Proclamation in 1863 freed all slaves in the South. Now southern Blacks faced difficulties that the northern Blacks had already faced. They did not know how to be free. Houston Hearts Field Hollway wrote “for we colored people did not know how to be free and white people did not know how to have a free colored person about them.”

Black codes were laws in the United States after the Civil War that were used to limit the Civil Rights and Civil Liberties of Blacks. In the south they were used to control the immigration, labor and other activities of newly-freed slaves. Most Blacks could only get minimal pay. BLACK CODES Civil Liberties: an individuals rights to do something. Civil Rights: a persons right to ensure ones ability to participate in civil and political life in the state.

SOUTH: The South’s economy was a wreck, the south had been defeated and needed to be rebuilt. The freeing of then slaves even more hindered the economic reconstruction. NORTH: Production grew with gun making and the railroad industry, commerce, and opening up the west more. ECONOMY AFTER CIVIL WAR

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