1. Political Reconstruction

2. Presidential Reconstruction
Lincoln’s Plan
a healing process
Unite country ASAP
Appoint provisional governors for southern states
Pardon southerners except Confederate leaders
Write new constitutions

3. Johnson’s Plan Included all of Lincoln’s Plan
Plus the pardoning of many Confederate leaders and officials

4. Congressional Reconstruction
Controlled by Radical Republicans in Congress
Punish southern states
Write new constitutions
Require ratification of 14th and 15th amendments
Military occupation until ratification of 14th and 15th amendments

5. POLITICAL RECONSTRUCTION IN GEORGIA
Georgia under military occupation until
James Johnson named provisional governor
13th amendment ratified
New constitution adopted in 1865
Declared slavery null and void
Abolished slavery
Canceled all war debts

6. Political Recon. in Georgia Con’t
Georgia placed under military occupation for 2nd time in 1867 for refusal to ratify 14th Amendment
Delegates chosen to write a new constitution (37 of the 169 delegate were African American)
Hotels in Milledgeville (Georgia Capital) refused rooms to African American delegates
General John Pope orders convention moved to Atlanta (voters vote in 1868 for Atlanta to be permanent capital)

7. Political Recon. in Georgia Con’t
1868 Rufus Bullock, a Republican, elected governor
Corrupt and runs state into a great deal of debt
1869 – Georgia is placed under military occupation for 3rd time due to activities of Ku Klux Klan
1870 Georgia ratifies 14th and 15th amendments …Bullock is removed from office
Political reconstruction is over in Georgia

8. How quickly could southern states be admitted back into the Union?
Comparison Question
Presidential Reconstruction
Congressional Reconstruction
How quickly could southern states be admitted back into the Union?
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Who would be qualified to vote?
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What conditions would a state have to satisfy to reenter the Union? p

9. How quickly could southern states be admitted back into the Union?
Comparison Question
Presidential Reconstruction
Congressional Reconstruction
How quickly could southern states be admitted back into the Union?
As soon as possible
Only after a time period that would punish them and perhaps keep the Democrats out of power
Who would be qualified to vote?
Except for Confederate leaders, anyone who took an oath of allegiance to the United States
Except for certain categories of ex-Confederates, all adult males, black and white, who took oath of allegiance
What conditions would a state have to satisfy to reenter the Union?
Write a new state constitution that declared secession null and void, abolish slavery, and cancel all war debts
Write a new state constitution and ratify the 14th and later the 15th Amendments to the Constitution