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Planning Reconstruction
Chapter 18 Section 1
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Results of the Civil War
Casualties of the War Union 340,000 CSA 210,000
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Results of the Civil War
Slaves were freed
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Results of the Civil War
Nation is more important than States People start identifying themselves as American
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Results of the Civil War
Federal Government grew in size and power
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Results of the Civil War
Income tax created to pay for war
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Results of the Civil War
State Universities were created Land for Homesteads in West Transcontinental Railroads
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Results of the Civil War
Manufacturing and Industrial industries expanded during and after the war
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Lincoln’s Ten Percent Plan
10% of population had to swear loyalty can make new state government Had to outlaw slavery Then could rejoin Congress
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Lincoln’s Ten Percent Plan
Amnesty Pardon available to Confederates who pledged loyalty Not available to government leaders and officers
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Wade Davis Bill Congressional Reconstruction Lincoln opposed
Required 50% loyalty oaths People who joined Confederate Army could not vote Lincoln opposed Wanted Republicans strong in South
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Freedman’s Bureau Set up to distribute food, clothes etc to freed slaves Was responsible for giving land to freedman, but land was taken away
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Responding to Freedom Freedmen began to move, find families, return to where born, get control of life
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African Methodist Episcopal (AME)
Created churches and schools Adults and children try to learn to read to help gain economic freedom
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John Wilkes Booth assassinated Lincoln at Fords theater in Washington DC
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Booth was captured and killed
Lincoln died on April 15, 1865 First President to be assassinated
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People who helped Booth escape were executed
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Johnson becomes President
Andrew Johnson was Democrat from Tennessee former slave owner Johnson believed Reconstruction was President job, not Congress’
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