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Ch 13.1
Presidential Reconstruction
1. EXPLAIN HOW THE CIVIL WAR AFFECTED
SOUTHERN LIFE
2. EXPLAIN THE DIFFERENCES IN LINCOLN’S AND
CONGRESS’ RECONSTRUCTION PLANS
3. DISCUSS JOHNSON’S PLAN FOR
RECONSTRUCTION
4. EXPLAIN HOW THE BLACK CODES WERE LIKE A
CONTINUATION OF SLAVERY
Bellringer
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WHAT WERE THE ENDURING PROBLEMS CREATED BY
THE CIVIL WAR?
Copy HW
 Read p. 399-404 using the focus questions to take
notes (textbook)
 Questions
What was Lincoln’s 10 Percent Plan?
 What were the consequences of the Civil War?
 What was the Emancipation Proclamation?
 What were 3 precedents set in the Washington
administration?
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Intro
 “With malice toward none, with charity for
all, with firmness in the right as God gives to
us to see the right, let us strive on….to bind
up the nation’s wounds…to do all which may
achieve a just and lasting peace.”
 What was Lincoln’s intent in this portion of
his 2nd inaugural address?
How the Civil War Affected Southern Life
 The
Old South destroyed
4 million freedpeople
Loss of labor
Hoped for freedom + “40 Acres and a
Mule”
infrastructure of the south destroyed
disease, hunger and poor sanitation
Cities, like Charleston, lay in ruins…
Lincoln’s plan for Reconstruction= Leniency
 President should
guide
Reconstruction
 Proclamation of Amnesty and
Reconstruction
 (a.k.a. The 10% Plan)
amnesty to anyone who swearing
allegiance to US Const. and Fed. Gov.
state could reenter the Union after 10%
of residents who voted in 1860 swore
allegiance to US
Congressional Reconstruction = Mistrust of
Southern Whites
 Opposed the 10% Plan
 Congress should guide Reconstruction
 Wade- Davis Bill
 Abolish Slavery
 Majority of each state’s white males take loyalty
oath
 Vetoed
by Lincoln
Johnson’s Plan for Reconstruction
 Johnson opposed by
Congress
 Former slave owner
from TN
 Openly racist
 Johnson’s Plan
 blanket
pardon for all rebels
 readmission required:
 nullify secession
 abolish slavery – 13th am.
 Refusal to pay Confederate debts
 Allowed
former Confederates to gain Congressional
seats in the Elections of 1865
How Black Codes were Like an Extension of
Slavery
 New State Constitutions included laws that limited
the rights of freedmen
 Examples
 Could not:
Meet
Own a gun
Travel without permits
Labor
contracts had to be signed