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U.S. History
2/6/2015
The Learning Target: Reconstruction ESSAY!
Black Codes/ Radical Republicans/ Civil Rights Act of 1866 / 14th & 15th Amendments
POSITION PAPER TODAY!
Review what you’ve learned on “Reconstruction” Pages 511-517
***POWERPOINT/IF TIME ALLOWS! (Presented by Mr. Boothby) 10 minutes***
Create a 1.5- 2 page paper citing your reconstruction plan, steps, and advanced details!
-Know both Wade-Davis and the Lincoln 10% plans!!
-Use facts to support your ideas and beliefs!!!
-1.5 pages minimum for Both MR. HAJEK & BOOTHBY
-Create a nice paper that doesn’t suck = 100 POINTS.
Staple Thursday’s Lesson to the back of “Your Reconstruction” paper!
+After-Shock Pt1+Good OLE Rebel song!
VIDEO @ 3.09!
If you were gone YESTERDAY READ pages 511-517 FIRST!
Lincoln’s The Ten-Percent Plan
Lincoln’s blueprint for Reconstruction included the Ten-Percent
Plan, which specified that a southern state could be readmitted into
the Union once 10 percent of its voters (from the voter rolls for the
election of 1860) swore an oath of allegiance to the Union. Voters
could then elect delegates to draft revised state constitutions and
establish new state governments. All southerners except for highranking Confederate army officers and government officials would
be granted a full pardon. Lincoln guaranteed southerners that he
would protect their private property, though not their slaves.
The Radical Republicans
Many leading Republicans in Congress feared that Lincoln’s plan for
Reconstruction was not harsh enough, believing that the South
needed to be punished for causing the war. These Radical
Republicans hoped to control the Reconstruction process, transform
southern society, disband the planter aristocracy, redistribute land,
develop industry, and guarantee civil liberties for former slaves.
Although the Radical Republicans were the minority party in
Congress, they managed to sway many moderates in the postwar
years and came to dominate Congress in later sessions.
The Wade-Davis Bill
In the summer of 1864, the Radical Republicans passed the WadeDavis Bill to counter Lincoln’s Ten-Percent Plan. The bill stated that
a southern state could rejoin the Union only if 50 percent of its
registered voters swore an “ironclad oath” of allegiance to the
United States. The bill also established safeguards for black civil
liberties but did not give blacks the right to vote.
Johnson’s Plan!
His amnesty proclamation (May 29, 1865) was more severe than
Lincoln's it disenfranchised all former military and civil officers of
the Confederacy and all those who owned property worth $20,000 or
more and made their estates liable to confiscation. The obvious
intent was to shift political control in the South from the old planter
aristocracy to the small farmers and artisans, and it promised to
accomplish a revolution in Southern society.
With Congress in adjournment from April to Dec., 1865, Johnson put
his plan into operation. Under provisional governors appointed by
him, the Southern states held conventions that voided or repealed
their ordinances of secession, abolished slavery, and (except South
Carolina) repudiated Confederate debts. Their newly elected
legislatures (except Mississippi) ratified the Thirteenth Amendment
guaranteeing freedom for blacks.
Read more: Reconstruction: Johnson's Plan
http://www.infoplease.com/encyclopedia/history/reconstructionjohnson-plan.html#ixzz3QtOAtowl
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