1. Rebuilding the Nation 16-1 VOCABULARY
voluntary- not forced; done of one’s own free will
resolve- to decide; to solve
Abraham Lincoln- president of the union
amnesty- a group pardon
freedman- enslaved people who have been enslaved by the law
John Wilkes Booth- Lincoln’s murderer; confederate sympathizer
Rebuilding the nation

2. Preparing for Reunion
-What will happen to freed slaves and the homeless?
-Trying to get the North and South back together was called reconstruction.

3. Lincoln’s Ten Percent Plan
-Dec. 1863
-10% of the state’s voters have to swore an oath of loyalty
-U.S government could then organize a new state government
-They would declare an end to slavery, then the state could send members to congress and they could take part in national government
-Included amnesty for former confederates who took loyalty oath

4. Wade Davis Bill -6 months after 10% plan
-50% of voters sign loyalty oath before returning to the union
-Anyone who had voluntarily fought for the confederates would not be able to vote for delegates going to the convention to write the new state constitution
-This bill didn’t give the right to vote but Lincoln never signed it so it was never a law
-Supporters of strict policy were called Radical Republicans

5. Freedmen’s Bureau -March 1865
-Involved slaves freed by war and war refugees
-Provided relief to people forced to leave their homes, by the war
-Set up courts to resolve issues with African Americans

6. Education
-After war the states set up schools for freedmen to learn to read and write
-Most of the teachers were North, white women
-Larger quantity of the teachers were North African American women
-South lacked education before the war
-Now they educate whites as well as blacks
-There are still institutions from these times, Fisk University, Tennessee, Hampton University, and Virginia

7. Edmonia Highgate
She was the daughter of freed slaves, and taught in a Freedmen’s Bureau school in Louisiana. Many people from far away were very excited to learn in her class.

8. Lincoln is Murdered
-April 14, 1865 in Ford’s Theatre, Lincoln was shot in the head with a pistol by a Confederate sympathizer, John Wilkes Booth
-Booth was shot 2 days after pursuers trapped him in a barn and set it on fire
-8 people convicted and 4 people were hung
-Funeral train back to Illinois, people stood around the tracks from all over to watch
-Vice President, Andrew Johnson, from Tennessee, who was a Southern Democrat remained with the union throughout war
-Many people thought he would take a strict approach to reconstruction

9. John Wilkes Booth
John Wilkes Booth was an American stage actor who assassinated President Abraham Lincoln at Ford's Theatre, in Washington, D.C., on April 14, 1865.