1. Rebuilding
-Had to rebuild everything
-Political
-Social
-Economic

2. Reconstruction:

3. Lincoln’s Plan
-Preserve Union
-Higher Cause
-forgiving peace
-”with malice toward none, with charity for all”
-amnesty to most
-10% must take oath
-little mention of former slaves

4. Lincoln Assassinated
-John Wilkes Booth
-Andrew Johnson is President
-tried to follow Lincoln’s plan with additions
-13th Amendment
-Congress refuses plan
-South tries to reorganize under Lincoln’s plan

5. Radical Plan
-Radical Republicans: will take over after 1866 mid-term
-wanted a harsher plan:50%
plan
-Wade-Davis Bill of 1864:
Vetoed by Lincoln
-martial law
-majority takes oath
-bar former leaders from
office

6. Southern Politics
-Black Codes
-many of the same leaders elected to office
-blacks denied most rights
-many people of the Union saw little change and began to question the outcome of the war

7. Power Struggle
-Congress refuses to admit new southern delegates
-Congress passes Civil Rights laws but Johnson vetoes
-Congress bypasses Johnson
-14th Amendment
-Radicals control Congress after 1866 elections with large majority

8. Radical Reconstruction
-Reconstruction Act of 1867
Will fund Freedman’s Bureau
-override the President
-military rule of South
-protect former slaves
-bans former leaders

9. New Government
-Scalawags: southerners who supported Reconstruction policies
-Carpetbaggers: northerners who moved south ..viewed as opportunists by Southerners
-African Americans can vote
-Black leaders elected (Hiram Revels first U.S. Senator)
-some corruption

10. Johnson Impeached
-Johnson fights with Radicals
-Radicals seek to impeach
-Tenure of Office Act: limits AJ’s ability to fire Cabinet
-Johnson tests the legality of Act
-Johnson impeached but acquitted

11. Grant Elected
-Johnson serves out term with no real effect on policy
-General Grant is nominated and wins election easily
-15th Amendment