Reconstruction review

Lincoln and Johnson

100

what was the Johnson's plan for Reconstruction 

• Similar to Lincoln’s plan

• Confederates need a presidential pardon to receive amnesty (forgiveness)

• Pardoned more than 7,000 people 

200

what was the wade Davis Bill ? 

• Much stricter than 10% Plan

• Harder for southern states to rejoin Union 

• President Lincoln refused to sign bill into law

• 10% Plan would help restore country quickly

300

What was the Lincoln 10 percent plan ? 

Objections to 10% Plan

• Congress (not president) should control southern states’ return 

• Republicans in Congress thought 10% Plan wasn’t enough

400

Reconstruction

• Reconstruction: process of readmitting the former Confederate states to the Union

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  • Lasted from 1865-1877

500

Conditions in the North

• Increased manufacturing - wartime production

• Gov’t funded railroads & infrastructure built

• Increased immigration - need for factory workers

• Growth of big business -  labor abuses/uneven distribution of wealth

Reconstruction Amedemnets

100

13th Amendment 

• Make slavery illegal throughout the United States

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  • Urged by Lincoln 

• Ratified and took effect on Dec. 18, 1865

• Abolitionist wanted more for African Americans

200

14th 

• 1866

• Included following provisions

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  • all people born or naturalized within U.S. as citizens (except Native Americans)

  • equal protection of the laws

  • could not “deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law”

  • Confederate officials couldn’t hold gov’t offices

  • Gave Congress power to pass any laws needed to enforce it