By Skylar PetersonA4

THE RECONSTRUCTION OF THE UNITED

STATES

It is a plan Abraham Lincoln offered to the southern states, it said that a state could

be included into the union when 10% of the 1860 vote count from that state had taken

an oath of allegiance to the U.S. and pledged to abide by emancipation. All who lived in the state would be granted a full

pardon except for high ranking confederate army officers and government

officials.

WHAT IS THE TEN PERCENT PLAN?

The Wade-Davis Bill was written in 1864 by two radical Republicans, Senator

Benjamin Wade of Ohio and representative Henry winter Davis of Maryland. They were forced to take the Ironclad Oath.

Abraham Lincoln and Andrew Johnson did not agree with the bill and both pocket

voted it. They said the reconstruction was a time to come together not to make them

swear by an oath.Ironclad Oath: A person had to swear they

never bore arms against the Union or supported the Confederacy.

WHAT WAS THE WADE-DAVIS BILL?

Effect on the south: It always got pocketed so it never went into effect. No effect.

The 13th amendment was able to demolish slavery. Slavery was now against the law unless it was

punishment for a crime.

WHAT DID THE 13TH AMENDMENT ACHIEVE?

How did the change the lives of enslaved African-Americans: They were all free now, most did not know what to do. In the south everyone was so used to African-Americans being slaves they did not know how to live any differently. Many of them stayed with their masters and tried to collect payment that usually didn’t work out for them. They gave them small wages and treated them the same as before.

Many people thought that African-Americans should not be able to be citizens

of the United States.Sec. 1: Defines citizen

ship of the United States and Protects individual

rights.Citizen Ship Clause: All

persons born or nationalized in the united states and subject to the

Jurisdiction of, are citizens of the United States and of the state

where they reside.

WHAT ISSUE DID THE 14TH AMENDMENT ADDRESS, AND HOW

DID IT EFFECT THE CONGRESSIONAL ELECTIONS OF

1886

Effect on enslaved African-Americans: The 14th amendment granted an automatic citizenship to any baby born in The United States. Even if the mother was here illegally the child will still get full citizenship from the government.

The 15th amendment was put in place on February 3, 1870. It granted the right to vote to every citizen of The United States no matter on race, color, or previous condition of

servitude.

WHAT DID THE 15TH AMENDMENT ACHIEVE?

Effecting lives of enslaved African-Americans: It would take the passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 before the majority of African Americans in the South were registered to vote. The South did everything they could do to make sure African-American did not vote and they were effective and able to delay it.

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HOW DID LINCOLN'S ASSASSINATION EFFECT THE

NATION?

How did it effect the reconstruction: after Lincolns death he left Johnson as President. He did not have a collage education but was a former slave owner who was also from the south.

Lincoln always looked at the reconstruction as time for them to heal as a nation they treated it as a lost brother coming home.

His amnesty proclamation (May 29, 1865) was much more severe than Lincoln’s. it wouldn’t let any of the former confederacy

officers or military and those who owned property worth more that 100,000 and made their state liable to confiscation. The

intent was mostly to take the government in the south from those with money and give it to the farmers and smaller business men it

was suppose to accomplish a revolution in the south.

WHAT WAS PRESIDENT JOHNSON’S

RECONSTRUCTION PLAN?

WHAT STEP DID JOHNSON REQUIRE SOUTHERN STATES TO TAKE IN ORDER TO BE READMITTED TO THE UNION

Johnson required the states to hold a constitutional convention and agree to many other conditions: oaths, slavery abolishment, etc.….

There was a lot of segregation with Blacks and Whites. Most White people still believed that the Blacks were lower

than them. They treated them horribly. Blacks had rules they had to follow.

HOW WERE SOUTHERN BLACKS TREATED AFTER THE CIVIL WAR AND

WHY?

Southern Blacks: the emancipation Proclamation in 1863 freed all slaves in the South. Now southern Blacks faced difficulties that the northern Blacks had already faced. They did not know how to be free.

Houston Hearts Field Hollway wrote “for we colored people did not know how to be free and white people did not know how to have a free colored person about them.”

Black codes were laws in the United States after the Civil War that were used to limit the Civil Rights and Civil

Liberties of Blacks. In the south they were used to control the immigration,

labor and other activities of newly-freed slaves. Most Blacks could only get minimal pay.

BLACK CODES

Civil Liberties: an individuals rights to do something.Civil Rights: a persons right to ensure ones ability to participate in civil and political life in the state.

SOUTH:The South’s economy was a wreck, the south had been defeated and needed to be rebuilt. The freeing of then slaves even more hindered

the economic reconstruction.

NORTH:Production grew with gun making and the railroad industry, commerce, and

opening up the west more.

ECONOMY AFTER CIVIL WAR

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