1. RECONSTRUCTION - Lincoln

2. Reconstruction referred to the period of time (1865-1877) when the government:
Re-built the South after the Civil War
And the process of re-admitting Confederate states back into the United States
Charleston, SC 1865

3. NEED FOR RECONSTRUCTION
Southern areas decimated
Some areas - every building / bridge destroyed
Atlanta completely destroyed
Charleston, Richmond, Savannah heavily damaged

4. NEED FOR RECONSTRUCTION
2/3 railroads gone (torn up by Union army)
Hundreds of thousands dead
Thousands of others wounded

5. NEED FOR RECONSTRUCTION
Confederate money is worthless
People who bought CSA bonds – unpaid
Banks close / go out of business
Depositors lose everything

6. NEED FOR RECONSTRUCTION
4,000,000 former slaves
new “freedom”
No land of their own
No jobs
No education

7. Reconstruction Plans Lincoln
Lincoln’s 10% Plan
Southern states can form state governments after 10% of voters swear loyalty to the United States of America
New governments must abolish slavery
Can elect Representatives to Congress
Many think Lincoln’s plan in too lenient

8. Reconstruction Plans Lincoln
Wade-Davis Bill
Majority of white males must swear allegiance to USA
CSA volunteers denied the right to vote
Cannot hold public office
Includes all officers and the most educated
Passed by Congress
Vetoed by Lincoln

9. Radical Republicans Thaddeus Stevens Charles Sumner Two goals
House of Representatives leader
Pennsylvania
Charles Sumner
Senate leader
Massachusetts
Two goals
Break the power of the Southern plantation owners
Ensure right to vote for Freedmen

10. Lincoln is Assassinated
On April 14, 1865, just 5 days after Lee's surrender, the president attended a play at the Ford's Theater in Washington, D.C. As Lincoln watched the play, John Wilkes Booth, an actor, crept into the President's box. Booth, a Southerner, blamed Lincoln for the South's defeat. Now taking careful aim, he shot Lincoln in the head with a gun.
Within a few hours the President was dead. Booth fled out of Washington and was later caught and killed in a barn outside of the city.

11. Lincoln is Assassinated
Vice President Andrew Johnson became the President when Lincoln died.
After Johnson became President his first duty was to ratify or approve the 13th Amendment, which banned slavery throughout the nation. The amendment passed on January 1865.
Here is what the 13th Amendment said:
Section 1
Neither slavery nor voluntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime where of the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.