1. 12/7 AIM: Life after the war Do Now: Questions on Packet/Castle Learning / Project / Anything? Take out paper for notes . Collect Handout

2. the south after the civil war. What needs to be done. Reconstruction
the south after the civil war. What needs to be done? Reconstruction. Northern solders stay in the south to help rebuld

3. With malice toward none, with charity for all…
Lincoln wins the election of nd inaugural address wants the south to come back in as quickly as possible. DOES NOT WANT TO PUNISH THE SOUTH
Lee surrenders to grant April 9, Lincoln’s plan for reconstruction is called the 10% plan. If 10 of the people who voted in 1860 promised to follow the Constitution the entire southern state could come back. Lincoln felt the south never actually left the union. It is a union of people not of states. It became illegal for a state to leave the country after the Civil War.

4. 13th Amendment Freedmen 40 Acres and a mule
With the Emancipation Proclamation turning into the 13th amendment to the constitution that ends slavery the question is what to do with emancipated slaves known as freedmen? Radical Republicans in Congress want to help freedmen and punish the old southern plantation owners. Their plan for Reconstruction is 40 acres and a mule. Give freedmen 40 acres of land that was taken away from old plantation owners and a mule to start a new life. Only 1% of former slaves receive this.

5. April 15, 1865
April 15, 1865 Lincoln is dead and Johnson becomes President. Johnson wanted to help the south (because that is where he is from) and punish freedmen.

6. President’s Plans
Lincoln and Johnson did not want to punish the south during reconstruction. They were in disrepair and so both presidents wanted amnesty.

7. Congressional Plans
Congress wanted to punish the south. The Radical Republicans in congress divided the south into military districts that the United States military could control.

8. 14th amendment must be approved (ratified) by the southern states before they could come back into the country. 14th amendment defines who is a citizen (gives freedmen citizenship).
15th amendment gives freedmen males the right to vote

9. Oath of allegiance to the United States signed by an Alabama resident following the Civil War. The signed oath gave citizens amnesty from prosecution for their support of the Confederacy.

10. Take out readings on Reconstruction