1. Reconstruction plans
Chapter 12
Section 1 & 2

2. Main ideas Students should be able to understand:
South is left in ruins
Lincoln’s plan for Reconstruction differed from Radical and Moderate Republicans
The Freedmen’s Bureau worked to keep the South’s people and economy “afloat.”

3. vocabulary Reconstruction Amnesty Radical Republicans Wade-Davis Bill
Freedmen’s Bureau
Black Codes
Civil War Amendments

4. “desolated land” Economy in collapse Slave labor no more
South in ruins
“desolated land”
Economy in collapse
Slave labor no more

5. Lincoln’s plan Lincoln starts making plan for Reconstruction in ‘62
1858
1860
1861
1863
1864
1865
Lincoln starts making plan for Reconstruction in ‘62
Moderate policy
Don’t “punish” South
Proclamation of Amnesty and Reconstruction – 1863 – Pardon those who took an oath of loyalty.
If 10% of the voters took this oath = new state gov’t.

6. Radical republicans 3 Main Goals –
Prevent Southern leaders from rising to power again
Republican Party to dominate southern politics
Right of African Americans to vote
Southern States would gain House seats (3/5th compromise)
Need former slaves to vote Republican
The Wade-Davis bill (Moderate Republicans)
Southern men were required to take an oath allegiance to Union
State Constitutions had to abolish slavery
Confederate officials and Military Officers cannot vote or hold office
Lincoln blocked this with a “pocket veto’s”(let session of congress expire) it – too harsh - DOES NOT PASS

7. The freedmen’s bureau 1865 Refugee crisis develops
Feed and clothe South
Used military rations
Help former slaves
get jobs on plantations
“Forty acres and a mule”- former slaves should be given these to support themselves (didn’t happen)
Promotes education
Buffalo soldiers – freedmen became soldiers in the Southwest.

8. Congress Flexes Muscle
VP Andrew Johnson puts Lincoln’s plan into place
Many Southern leaders get pardons / gain office
Southern states – BLACK CODES (similar to slavery)
Limit African American rights (varied from state to state)
Enraged many Northerners.
Civil Rights Act of 1866 – citizenship to all born in US (except Native Americans) of course.
14th Amendment – Civil Rights – Equality for all citizens
Johnson impeached – remains in office
Johnson loses 1868 election
US Grant elected
15th Amendment passed
Right to vote regardless of race