Reconstruction

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Reconstruction
Objective 3.04/3.05
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How to Rebuild the South

• Economy in collapse
• Confederate money worthless
• 2/3 transportation system destroyed
• Slaves are free
• How to readmit states into the Union?

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Lincolns Plan

• Reconcile not punish
• Pardon all who take oath of loyalty
• To join Union-10 of voters take oath and accept
  13th Amendment.
• Make new state constitution.

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Radical Republicans

• Resist Lincolns plan
• Led by Thaddeus Stevens and Charles Sumner
• 3 goals
• Prevent leaders of Confederacy from returning to
  power
• Republican party to become a powerful institution
• Federal govt to help African Americans

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Wade-Davis Bill

• Plan of moderate republicans
• Majority of adult white men to take oath
• Then can make constitution
• Must abolish slavery
• Confederate officers cannot vote or hold office
• Congress passed Lincoln rejected

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Freedmans Bureau

• Task of feeding and clothing refugees with
  surplus army supplies.
• Helped former slaves find work on plantations.
• Negotiated labor contracts
• Worked to educate former slaves

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Johnsons Plan

• Pardon all who took oath
• Except those w/ property more than 20,000
• Make constitution to abolish slavery
• Congress still had Confederate members
  confederate V.P. Alex Stephens

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Black Codes

• Limited rights of African Americans
• To keep conditions similar to slavery
• Some required to enter into annual labor
  contracts
• Enraged Northerners

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Military Reconstruction

• Wiped out Johnsons plan (1867)
• 5 military districts
• State must hold constitutional convention
• All male citizens can vote
• Accept 14th Amendment
• By end of 1868NC, SC, FL, AL, LA, AR were
  readmitted

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Tenure of Office Act

• Required removal of all appointed govt officials
  to have senate approval
• Johnson fired Stanton (Sec. of War) to challenge
  law
• Johnson impeached for
• Breaking the law
• Undermining reconstruction