WADE-DAVIS VS. 10 PERCENT PLAN -...
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¡ Lincoln’s Plan – States will be readmitted when 10% of 1860
voters swear allegiance to US, and the state agrees to end slavery. Amnesty for all except high-ranking Confederate officers.
¡ Wade Davis Bill – States readmitted when at least 50% take oath of loyalty to the union.
WADE-DAVIS VS. 10 PERCENT PLAN
¡ 13th (1865) – Abolishes Slavery
¡ 14th (1868) – Equal Citizenship Rights Regardless of Race
¡ 15th (1870) – Prohibits Discrimination in Voting Rights Based on Race
RECONSTRUCTION AMENDMENTS
FREEDMEN’S BUREAU
Created in 1865, it helped freed slaves with housing, employment, education, and fair trials.
MILITARY RECONSTRUCTION
¡ "The slave went free; stood a brief moment in the sun; then moved back into slavery”
-W.E.B. DuBois
ELECTION OF 1876
¡ The removal of all federal troops from the former Confederate States.
¡ The appointment of at least one Southern Democrat to Hayes's cabinet.
¡ The construction of another transcontinental railroad using the Texas and Pacific in the South
¡ Legislation to help industrialize the South and build their economy.
COMPROMISE OF 1877
COMPROMISE OF 1877
¡ Let me assure my countrymen of the Southern States that it is my earnest desire to regard and promote their truest interest — the interests of the white and of the colored people both and equally — and to put forth my best efforts in behalf of a civil policy which will forever wipe out in our political affairs the color line and the distinction between North and South, to the end that we may have not merely a united North or a united South, but a united country.
Hayes’ Inaugural Address (5 March 1877).