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THE
RECONSTRUCTION
OF THE UNITED
STATES
By Skylar Peterson
A4
WHAT IS THE TEN PERCENT
PLAN?
It is a plan Abraham Lincoln offered to the southern
states, it said that a state could be included into the
union when 10% of the 1860 vote count from that state
had taken an oath of allegiance to the U.S. and pledged
to abide by emancipation. All who lived in the state
would be granted a full pardon except for high ranking
confederate army officers and government officials.
WHAT WAS THE WADE-DAVIS
BILL?
The Wade-Davis Bill was written in 1864 by two radical
Republicans, Senator Benjamin Wade of Ohio and
representative Henry winter Davis of Maryland. They
were forced to take the Ironclad Oath. Abraham
Lincoln and Andrew Johnson did not agree with the bill
and both pocket voted it. They said the reconstruction
was a time to come together not to make them swear by
an oath.
Ironclad Oath: A person had to swear they never bore
arms against the Union or supported the Confederacy.
Effect on the south: It always got pocketed so it never went
into effect. No effect.
WHAT DID THE 13TH
AMENDMENT ACHIEVE?
The 13th amendment was able to demolish slavery. Slavery was now
against the law unless it was punishment for a crime.
How did the change the lives of
enslaved African-Americans: They
were all free now, most did not
know what to do. In the south
everyone was so used to AfricanAmericans being slaves they did not
know how to live any differently.
Many of them stayed with their
masters and tried to collect
payment that usually didn’t work
out for them. They gave them small
wages and treated them the same as
before.
WHAT ISSUE DID THE 14TH
AMENDMENT ADDRESS, AND HOW
DID IT EFFECT THE CONGRESSIONAL
ELECTIONS OF 1886
Many people thought that
African-Americans should
not be able to be citizens of
the United States.
Sec. 1: Defines citizen ship
of the United States and
Protects individual rights.
Citizen Ship Clause: All
persons born or nationalized
in the united states and
subject to the Jurisdiction of,
are citizens of the United
States and of the state where
they reside.
Effect on enslaved African-Americans: The 14th
amendment granted an automatic citizenship to any
baby born in The United States. Even if the mother
was here illegally the child will still get full
citizenship from the government.
WHAT DID THE 15TH
AMENDMENT ACHIEVE?
The 15th amendment was put in place on February 3, 1870. It granted the right
to vote to every citizen of The United States no matter on race, color, or
previous condition of servitude.
Effecting lives of enslaved African-Americans:
It would take the passage of the Voting Rights
Act of 1965 before the majority of African
Americans in the South were registered to vote.
The South did everything they could do to make
sure African-American did not vote and they
were effective and able to delay it.
HOW DID LINCOLN'S
ASSASSINATION EFFECT THE
NATION?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OHaKmaS-r4I
How did it effect the
reconstruction: after Lincolns
death he left Johnson as
President. He did not have a
collage education but was a
former slave owner who was
also from the south.
Lincoln always looked at the
reconstruction as time for
them to heal as a nation they
treated it as a lost brother
coming home.
WHAT WAS PRESIDENT
JOHNSON’S RECONSTRUCTION
PLAN?
His amnesty proclamation (May 29, 1865) was much more severe than Lincoln’s. it
wouldn’t let any of the former confederacy officers or military and those who owned
property worth more that 100,000 and made their state liable to confiscation. The
intent was mostly to take the government in the south from those with money and give
it to the farmers and smaller business men it was suppose to accomplish a revolution
in the south.
WHAT STEP DID JOHNSON REQUIRE
SOUTHERN STATES TO TAKE IN ORDER
TO BE READMITTED TO THE UNION
Johnson required the states to hold a constitutional convention and
agree to many other conditions: oaths, slavery abolishment, etc.….
HOW WERE SOUTHERN BLACKS
TREATED AFTER THE CIVIL WAR AND
WHY?
There was a lot of segregation with Blacks and Whites. Most White people
still believed that the Blacks were lower than them. They treated them
horribly. Blacks had rules they had to follow.
Southern Blacks: the emancipation Proclamation in 1863 freed all slaves in
the South. Now southern Blacks faced difficulties that the northern Blacks
had already faced. They did not know how to be free.
Houston Hearts Field
Hollway wrote “for we
colored people did not
know how to be free and
white people did not
know how to have a free
colored person about
them.”
BLACK CODES
Black codes were laws in the United States after the Civil War that were used
to limit the Civil Rights and Civil Liberties of Blacks.
In the south they were used to control the immigration, labor and other
activities of newly-freed slaves. Most Blacks could only get minimal pay.
Civil Liberties: an individuals rights to do
something.
Civil Rights: a persons right to ensure ones
ability to participate in civil and political life in
the state.
ECONOMY AFTER CIVIL WAR
SOUTH:
The South’s economy was a wreck,
the south had been defeated and
needed to be rebuilt. The freeing of
then slaves even more hindered the
economic reconstruction.
NORTH:
Production grew with gun making
and the railroad industry, commerce,
and opening up the west more.
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