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RECONSTRUCTION
 RECONSTRUCTION AFTER THE CIVIL WAR?
 1. THE PERIOD DURING WHICH THE U.S.
BEGAN TO REBUILD AFTER THE CIVIL WAR
FROM 1865 TO 1877.
 2. THE TERM ALSO REFERS TO THE PROCESS
THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT USED TO
READMIT THE DEFEATED CONFEDERATE
STATES TO THE UNION.
 LINCOLN’S PLAN THROUGHOUT WAS TO
RESTORE THE UNION.
POLITICS OF RECONSTRUCTION
 LINCOLN’S PLAN- FAVORED A LENIENT
RECONSTRUCTION PLAN.
 LINCOLN’S “10-PERCENT PLAN” UNDER THE
PLAN THE GOVERNMENT WOULD PARDON ALL
CONFEDERATES EXCEPT HIGH RANKING
OFFICIALS AND THOSE ACCUSED OF CRIMES
AGAINST PRISONERS OF WAR.
 UNDER LINCOLN’S TERMS, 4 STATES–
ARKANSAS, LOUISIANA, TENNESSEE, VIRGINIA
MOVED TOWARD READMISSION TO THE
UNION.
10 PERCENT PLAN
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Lincoln's "10 percent plan"
A Reconstuction plan introduced in
December 1863 where a

seceded state could be readmitted back into
the Union

after 10% of the state's population's voters
took an
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oath of allegiance to the Union and pledged
to enforce

the emancipation proclamation. Following
that, the

states could elect a government which would
write a new

state constitution -- which HAD to
permanently abolish
POLITICS OF RECONSTRUCTION
 RADICAL
 RADICAL
REPUBLICANS –
 1. WANTED TO
DESTROY THE POWER
OF THE SLAVE
HOLDERS.
 2. WANTED TO GIVE
AFRICAN AMERICANS
FULL CITIZENSHIP &
THE RIGHT TO VOTE.
REPUBLICANS WERE
LEAD BY:
 SENATOR CHARLES
SUMNER OF
MASSACHUSETTS.
 THADDEUS STEVENS
OF PENNSLYVANIA.
POLITICS OF RECONSTRUCTION
 ANDREW JOHNSON
PLAN FOR
RECONSTRUCTION:
 THE MAJOR
DIFFERENCE FROM
LINCOLN WAS:
 JOHNSON DID NOT
WANT THE HIGH
RANKING
CONFEDERATES &
WEALTHY SOUTHERN
LANDOWNERS FROM
TAKING THE OATH
NEEDED FOR VOTING
PRIVILEGES.
 JOHNSON ALSO
PARDONED 13,000
CONFEDERATES
BECAUSE HE WANTED
THEM TO MANAGE THE
SOUTH.
 THE REST OF THE
SOUTHERN STATE
AGREED TO JOHNSON’S
TERMS.
POLITICS OF RECONSTRUCTION
 JOHNSON’S PLAN ANGERED MANY MODERATE
AND RADICAL REPUBLICANS.
 THIS LEAD TO CONGRESSIONAL
RECONSTRUCTION.
 THESE INCLUDED THE 13, 14, & 15TH
AMENDMENTS:
 13TH -(RATIFIED IN 1865) ABOLISHED SLAVERY,
OR INVOLUNTARY SERVITUDE, EXCEPT AS A
PUNISHMENT FOR A CRIME WAS ILLEGAL.
POLITICS OF RECONSTRUCTION
 CONGRESSIONAL RECONSTRUCTION
 14TH AMENDMENT- (RATIFIED 1868)
PREVENTED STATES FROM DENYING
RIGHTS AND PRIVELEGES TO ANY U.S.
CITIZENS.
 A PERSONS BORN OR NATURALIZED IN
THE U.S. ARE ALL CITIZENS.
 PURPOSE OF THE 14TH AMENDMENT WAS
TO NULLIFY THE DRED SCOTT DECISION.
POLITICS OF RECONSTRUCTION
 CONGRESSIONAL RECONSTRUCTION
 15TH AMENDMENT-RIGHT TO VOTE (RATIFIED
IN 1870).
 NO ONE CAN BE DENIED THE RIGHT TO VOTE
BASED ON RACE, COLOR, OR PREVIOUS
CONDITION OF SERVITUDE.
SOCIAL RECONSTRUCTION
 CONDITIONS OF THE POST-WAR SOUTH
 1 DEVASTATED THE SOUTH ECONOMICALLY.
 2. VALUE OF THE SOUTHERN PROPERTY HAD
PLUMMETED.
 3. POPULATION OF THE SOUTH WAS
DEVASTATED.
 4. DEATHS OF MUCH OF THE WORKFORCE IN
THE SOUTH.
 5. RESULTS: THE GOVERNMENT BAGAN PUBLIC
WORKS PROJECTS TO REPAIR THE SOUTH.
SOCIAL RECONSTRUCTION
 WHAT IS A PUBLIC WORKS PROGRAM?
 DID TWO THINGS: 1. IMPROVED THE AREA IN
WHICH IS WAS BUILT & 2. IT PROVIDED PEOPLE
WITH JOBS.
 WHAT IS AN EXAMPLE OF A PUBLIC WORKS
PROJECT?
 1. RAILROADS, BRIDGES, SCHOOLS, HIGHWAYS,
DAMS, CANALS, ETC.
PUBLIC WORKS EXAMPLES
SOCIAL RECONSTRUCTION
 REPUBLICANS MEMBERS IN THE SOUTH HAD
CONFLICTING VIEWS.
 SCALAWAGSWHITE SOUTHERNERS THAT WANTED TO IMPROVE
THEIR ECONOMIC POSITION.
 CARPETBAGGERSNORTHERNERS THAT CAME TO THE SOUTH TO
PROFIT.
AFRICAN AMERICANSEXERCISED THEIR RIGHTS TO VOTE AND OTHER
RIGHTS THAT WERE GIVEN TO THEM.
SOCIAL RECONSTRUCTION
 THE BIGGEST PROBLEM WITH THOSE 3
GROUPS MAKING UP THE REPUBLICAN PARTY
WAS?
 LACK OF UNITY WITHIN THE PARTY.
 THE GROUPS HAD THEIR OWN AGENDA.
SOCIAL & ECONOMIC RECONSTRUCTION
 SHARECROPPING AND TENANT FARMING-
WAS DEVELOPED TO ALLOW FORMER SLAVES
AND POOR WHITE FARMERS TO EARN A LIVING.
1. THE SET-UP OF SHARECROPING & TENANT
FARMING ?
2. LANDOWNERS DIVIDED THEIR LAND AND
ASSIGNED EACH HEAD OF HOUSEHOLD A
FEW ACRES, ALONG WITH SEED & SOIL.
3. SHARECROPPERS KEPT A SMALL AMOUNT
AND GAVE THE REST TO THE LANDOWNERS.