1. Reconstruction
APUSH - Spiconardi

2. Major Questions How should the South be rebuilt? ???
How should states that seceded be reintegrated?
How should former slaves be integrated into the reunified nation?
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3. Lincoln’s Plan Reconciliation and Reunion
Rebellious states could return to the Union when
10 percent of it voters took an oath of loyalty
The state approved the Thirteenth Amendment
Confederate States would reject this plan
Lincoln was willing to pardon all the but the highest-ranking military and civilian leaders of the Confederacy

4. Wade-Davis Bill Congress proposed a tougher plan, the Wade-Davis Bill
Confederate States could rejoin the Union when
A majority of each state’s white males pledged allegiance to the Union
A new state government was formed by Southerners who had not taken arms against the Union
Permanent disenfranchisement of Confederate leaders
Lincoln pocket vetoes the bill

5. Lincoln Assassinated

6. Andrew Johnson
President Johnson was a loyal Tennessee senator at the outbreak of the war
Fancied himself a “common man”
Supported by farmers and laborers
Hated southern aristocracy
Offers his reconstruction plan, which is dubbed “Presidential Reconstruction” (1865 – 1867)

7. Andrew Johnson Presidential Reconstruction
Pardoned nearly all white southerners who took an oath of allegiance
Only Confederate leaders and planters whose property had been valued at $20,000 or more were excluded
However, if they personally asked for a presidential pardon, Johnson obliged
Johnson appointed governors to oversee state conventions that were establishing new loyal state governments

8. Radical Republicans Thaddeus Stevens Andrew Johnson
Three Radical Republican Policies
Johnson’s Reaction to Radical Republican Policies
The whole fabric of southern society must be changed. Without this, this Government can never be, as it has never been, a true republic.

9. Black Codes
Black Codes  laws passed by southern state legislatures to restrict the rights of former slaves and continue white hegemony
Examples:
Blacks could not testify against whites in court
Blacks could not serve on juries
Blacks not allowed to vote
Blacks had to work on plantations
Black laborers who did not sign one year contracts could be arrested and hired out to white landowners
* The Civil Rights Act of 1866 would bring an end to many black codes

10. Freedmen’s Bureau Freedmen’s Bureau
Reconstruction agency established in 1865 to protect the legal rights of former slaves and to assist with their education, jobs, health care, and landowning
Investigated abuses by the South towards blacks