1. Reconstruction

2. Stop and think #1
How should the U.S. bring the South back into the Union?

3. Lincoln’s plan for Reconstruction
Plan was based on forgiveness (pardon all Southerners expect high ranking Confederate leaders)
10% of a state’s population would take an oath to be loyal to the U.S.
Remove slavery from state laws
Adopt the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments

4. Stop and think #2
How should the government integrate and protect newly freed black men and women?

5. Black Codes
Southern states passes law to take away rights from freed African-Americans.
Couldn’t own land
Couldn’t own a gun
Couldn’t meet together after sunset
Couldn’t marry white people

6. Freedmen’s Bureau
Gov’t agency to provide services to freed slaves and war victims
Northern abolitionists risked their lives to help Southern freedmen.

7. Freedmen Bureau’s Schools
About 250,000 students attend 4,300 schools
University founded:
Howard Univ.
Hampton Institute

8. Nicknames Carpetbaggers-
a Northerner who went to the South after the Civil War (either for personal gain or to help)
Scalawags- white Southerners who always supported the Union.

9. Pres. Johnson’s Plan for Reconstruction
10% of state’s population takes loyalty oath
No pardons for Confederates who killed POWs
Pass the 13th amendment
Very similar to Lincoln’s plan

10. Radical Republican Plan
South under military rule
Required Southern states to allow all eligible voters, including African Americans, to vote
Temporarily barred Confederate supporters from voting
Ratify the 13th and 14th Amendments

11. The President vs. Congress
Congress tried to impeach Johnson
He removed Sec. of War Stanton
Tenure of Office Act stated that a President could not remove an appointed official without the consent of Congress
Congress brought charges of impeachment
The Senate voted 35 guilty to 19 not guilty
Johnson was acquitted
One vote short of impeachment
Radical plan is used in Reconstruction (Reconstruction act of 1867)