Plans for Reconstruction

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Plans for Reconstruction

• Reconstruction
• -Process of rebuilding the United States
  (Union) after the
• Civil War.
• How should the U.S. re-admit the South into
  the Union?

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I. Presidential Plan (Lincoln-Johnson Plan)
www.magicalcat.com/H_reconstruction.htm

• 1st plan for reconstruction
• 10 Plan
• Any state applying for re-admittance must
• 1. 10 of men take
• loyalty oath
• 2. Confederate officials
• of state jailed
• 3. Ratify 13th Amendment
• a. Accept freedom of slaves

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II. Congressional Plan
teachers.henrico.k12.va.us/highlandsprings/st...

• 1. All Confederate officials
• barred from public office
• 2. Ratify 14th Amendment
• a. Former slaves are citizens
• -protected under the law
• 3. Ratify 15th Amendment
• a. African American right
• to vote
• 4. Accept Reconstruction Act of 1867
• a. Divide southern states into
• strict Military Districts

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III. Freedmens Bureau
xroads.virginia.edu/cap/SCARTOONS/caremanc.html

• 1. Aid to former slaves (Freed men)
• a. Medical care
• b. Education
• c. Employment
• d. Food

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IV. Black Codes
www.chicora.org/heritage_not_hate.htm

• 1. Laws passed in southern states
• designed to restrict rights of
• African Americans.
• a. Cannot hold public office
• b. Cannot serve on a Jury
• c. Cannot vote
• -Grandfather Clause
• d. Cannot work skilled jobs