Reconstruction

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Reconstruction
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Lincolns 10 Plan

• Presidential Pardons
• Oath of Loyalty
• Acceptance of the Emancipation Proclamation

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Wade-Davis Bill

• 50 had to take an oath of loyalty
• Only Non Confederates could vote for Constitution
• Pocket Veto

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John Wilkes Booth
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Andrew Johnson Takes Over

• Confederates must ask for personal pardon
• 10 needed to take loyalty Oath
• Johnson lacked appeal

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Radical Republicans
Thaddeus Stevens
Charles Sumner
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Congress Refuses New Governments
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Johnsons Vetoes

• Freedmens Bureau
• Civil Rights Act of 1866
• Reconstruction Act of 1867
• The Tenure of Office Act

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Swing Around the Circle
Johnson won many votes
For Republicans
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Freedmens Bureau
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Passed over Johnsons Veto and hated by white
southerners
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Impeachment of Johnson
Tenure of Office Act
Edwin Stanton
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Scalawags and Carpetbaggers
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Radical Republicans
Thaddeus Stevens
Charles Sumner
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Radical Reconstruction Legislation

• Civil Rights Act of 1866
• 14th Amendment
• Reconstruction Act of 1867
• 15th Amendment
• Civil Rights Act of 1875

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Military Reconstruction
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• After the Troops Leave
• Poll Taxes
• Literacy Test
• Grandfather Clause

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End of Reconstruction

• Panic of 1873
• Compromise of 1877
• Northern Apathy
• Amnesty Act

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Sharecropping
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Failures of Reconstruction

• KKK
• White League
• Poll Tax
• Literacy Tests
• Grandfather Clause

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Black Codes
Laws intended to keep African Americans working
on the Plantations
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Jim Crow Laws
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Segregation
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What about the 14th Amendment??? Equal Protection
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Plessy V. Ferguson Separate But Equal
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