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Name: ______________________________
US History I
Three Plans for Reconstruction
Issues
Lincoln’s
Reconstruction
Plan
Congressional
Reconstruction
Plan
Andrew Johnson’s
Reconstruction
Plan
Would the U.S.
pardon highranking
Confederate
leaders?
Lincoln would not pardon
high-ranking Confederate
leaders and military
leaders.
Congress would not
pardon high-ranking
Confederate officers or
government officials.
Johnson issued 13,000
pardons to former
Confederate officers,
government officials, and
wealthy plantation owners.
Would the U.S.
pardon the
Confederate
soldiers and
citizens?
Most former Confederate
soldiers and civilians
would be pardoned for
supporting the
Confederacy if they took
an oath of allegiance to
the United States
government.
Southern civilians would
be pardoned ONLY if
they promised that they
had NEVER voluntarily
supported the
Confederacy.
Confederate soldiers
would not be pardoned.
Former Confederates
soldiers and civilians would
be pardoned for supporting
the Confederacy if they
took an oath of allegiance
to the United States
government.
When would the
U.S. readmit the
Southern states?
A state would be
readmitted once 10 % of
its voters swore an oath
of allegiance and
promised to uphold the
United States
Constitution (including
the 13th Amendment
which outlawed slavery)
and Congress’s laws
A state would be
readmitted once 51% of
its voters swore an oath
of allegiance and
promised to uphold the
United States
Constitution (including
the 13th Amendment
which outlawed slavery)
and Congress’s laws.
States would be
readmitted to the Union
after the met several
conditions: renounce its
secession, forgive war
debts, and each would
need to ratify the 13th
Amendment separately.
When 10% of a state’s
voters swore their
allegiance, they could
rewrite their constitution,
elect new state leaders,
and start a new
government.
When 51% of state’s
voters swore their
allegiance, they could
rewrite their constitution,
elect new state leaders,
and start a new state
government.
Anyone who had
voluntarily fought against
the United States was
banned from participation
in the new state
governments.
State governments were
reinstated without loyalty
oaths.
Johnson’s 13,000 pardons
allowed many of the same
wealthy southern
landowners who had held
power before the war to
regain control of the state
governments.
Who would run
the Southern state
governments?
What would
happen to the
plantations owned
by Southerners?
Lincoln guaranteed
Southerners that he
would protect their
property (except for
slaves).
A Freedman’s Bureau
would redistribute lands
confiscated from
Southern plantation
owners to former slaves
and poor whites. Anyone
who pledged loyalty to
the Union could lease
forty acres of land from
the bureau and then
have the option to
purchase them several
years later.
Johnson would return all
confiscated land back to
Southern plantation
owners.
What about the
future of slavery
in the United
States?
States were required to
approve the 13th
Amendment, which
abolished slavery, in
order to be readmitted to
the United States.
States were required to
approve the 13th
Amendment, which
abolished slavery, in
order to be readmitted to
the United States.
States were required to
approve the 13th
Amendment, which
abolished slavery, in order
to be readmitted to the
United States.
Lincoln ordered several
of his generals to resettle
former slaves on some of
the confiscated lands.
Over forty thousand
former slaves were
resettled on lands along
the South Carolina coast
and on islands off the
coast of Georgia.
The Freedmen’s
Bureau would distribute
food and supplies, and
establish schools for
former slaves.
Johnson opposed the
Freedmen’s Bureau
because he felt giving
former slaves special help
would be detrimental to the
South. He also believed
the Freedman’s Bureau
was an example of the
federal government taking
power that belonged to the
states.
Lincoln made no
provisions in his plans for
Freedman citizenship or
voting rights. His plan
was created to make the
re-admission of Southern
states as smooth as
possible.
Congress wanted to
extend citizenship rights
to African Americans
and guarantee them
equal protection of the
laws.
Originally there was no
discussion of giving
former slaves the right to
vote. Later Congress
wanted to guarantee this
right with a constitutional
amendment.
Johnson did not offer any
security or protections for
former slaves.
Johnson believed that it
should be up to the states
to decide to give former
slaves the right to vote.
Would anything
be done to help
former slaves?
Would former
slaves get
citizenship and/or
the right to vote?
Name: _______________________________
US History I
Questions to Consider:
Three Plans for Reconstruction
Directions: Please answer in complete sentences.
1. Which Reconstruction plan was the harshest in its treatment of former
Confederates? Provide support for your answer.
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2. Which Reconstruction plan was the most lenient in its treatment of former
Confederates? Provide support for your answer.
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3. Which plan was the most generous in its treatment of former slaves? Provide
support for your answer.
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4. Which Reconstruction plan would you have implemented if you had been the
president? Explain why.
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5. What do you think was the most controversial issue in the plans for Reconstruction?
Explain why.
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