1. Planning Reconstruction
Chapter 18, Lesson 1
Planning Reconstruction

2. Reconstruction Debate
Rebuilding & readmitting former CSA to USA
President & Congress had different ideas on how to do this

3. 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

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

5. 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

6. 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

7. 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

8. Johnson

9. 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