1. US History – Mr. Smyth
Reconstruction 101

2. Presidential Reconstruction
Lincoln’s Plan
Johnson’s Plan
10% Plan
Amnesty: Loyalty Oath for White Southerners (excluding Confederate officials)
10% allowed for a state to set up a new government
Limited black suffrage
Three states followed plan
Congressional Response: Wade-Davis Bill
Provisional Governor, majority to pledge loyalty, abolish slavery, disenfranchise Confederate leaders
Vetoed
“Restoration”
Amnesty
Provisional Governor
Qualified voters to set up new government
Revoke secession ordinance
Ratify 13th Amendment
Repudiate war debts
By end of 1865, all Confederate states had formed governments

3. Congressional Response to Actions in the South
Joint Committee on Reconstruction
Extended life of Freedmen’s Bureau
Civil Rights Act (1866): gave blacks citizenship and allowed for federal intervention to protect rights
14th Amendment (proposed in 1866)

4. Congressional Reconstruction Plan
Rejected states admitted under Lincoln & Johnson (TN admitted to Union)
South divided into 5 military districts, with commander governing
Qualified voters (adult black males & white males who had not participated in the rebellion) created new state government
Congress to approve new government
State had to ratify 14th Amendment
Once 14th Amendment became part of Constitution, states could be readmitted

5. Back into the Union 1868: 7 of 10 states readmitted VA & TX in 1869
MS in 1870 (15th Amendment included)