1. With Malice Toward None and Andrew Johnson and the Radicals
Chapter 14, Section 1 and 2
Main Ideas:
What is Lincoln’s plan for reconstruction and how does it differ from radical republican’s?
Why was President Johnson unsuccessful in dealing with Congress?
What is the fourteenth amendment and how did the South react to it?
What was the Freedman’s Bureau?
Do Now:
Military reconstruction map packet pg. 10.
Topics:
10% Plan
Wade-Davis Bill
Radical Republicans
Andrew Johnson
Presidential Reconstruction
Black Codes
Committee of Reconstruction
Freedman’s Bureau
Civil rights Bill
14th amendment

2. Punish or Forgive? Both North and South suffered many dead
Charleston, SC
Both North and South suffered many dead
Southern industry, infrastructure and government was destroyed
South had to rebuild or North would have to provide for South
Atlanta, GA

3. Lincoln’s Attitude to South
Lincoln argued states still existed
Wanted southern governments restored quickly
Wanted to prevent Confederate officials from joining government
“With malice toward none, with charity for all, with
firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right,
let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up
the nation's wounds.” – Second Inaugural Address

4. Lincoln’s Plan for Reconstruction
If 10% of Southerners took oath to Constitution and US, would be readmitted
Let South rule itself
South must abolish slavery

5. Radical Republicans Radical Republicans wanted to punish south
Thaddeus Stevens
Radical Republicans wanted to punish south
Want equality for freedmen
States needed to be re-created
Congress can decide how South is governed
Wanted south ruled like a conquered province
Led by Thaddeus Stevens and Charles Sumner
Charles Sumner

6. Wade Davis Plan Majority of southerners must declare loyalty
To vote or hold office could not have served in Confederate government or army
New state constitutions must be made
South under military rule until requirements met
Lincoln did not sign bill
First page of "A Bill to guaranty to certain states whose governments have been usurped or overthrown, a republican form of government." (Wade-Davis bill as amended by Representative Thaddeus Stevens), National Archives and Records Administration, Records of the U.S. House of Representatives

7. Sic Semper Tyrannis “Thus Always to Tyrants”
John Wilkes Booth assassinated Lincoln in Ford Theater
Conspirators also tried to kill Vice President Johnson and Secretary of State Seward
Booth and conspirators were killed or executed