1. RECONSTRUCTION
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2. Focus Activity

3. Key Questions 1. How do we bring the South back into the Union?
4. What branch of government should control the process of Reconstruction?
2. How do we rebuild the South after its destruction during the war?
3. How do we integrate and protect newly- emancipated black freedmen?

4. Reconstruction and its Effects
The period during in which the U.S. began to rebuild after the Civil War
Process the federal government used to readmit the defeated Confederate states to the Union.

5. RECONSTRUCTION PLANS

6. 1. Lincoln’s Plan Ten percent plan
The government would pardon all Confederates except high ranking officials and those accused of crimes against prisoners of war.
As soon as ten percent of those who had voted in 1860 took this oath of allegiance, a Confederate state could form a new state government.
Also, South had to accept a ban on slavery

7. 2. Radical Republicans (congress’ plan)
Wanted to destroy the political power of former slaveholders.
Most of all, they wanted African Americans to be given full citizenship and the right to vote.

8. “we have turned loose 4 million slaves without a hut to shelter them or a cent in their pockets. If we do not furnish [them] with homesteads (land) and hedge (surround) them about with protective laws; if we leave them to the [governing]of their late masters, we had better have left them in bondage.”
-Thaddeus Stephens, Radical Republican

9. Lincoln Assassinated
John Wilkes Booth shoots and kills President Lincoln at Fords Theatre.
Andrew Johnson becomes President

10. 3. Johnson’s Plan For Reconstruction
High-ranking Confederates and wealthy southern landowners do NOT need to take an oath of allegiance.
Pardoned more than 13,000 former Confederates because he believed that “White men alone must manage the South.”
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