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THE PLANS OF RECONSTRUCTION

THE PLANS OF RECONSTRUCTION. Three Plans. Lincoln: Treat South with kindness. Pardons if you swear allegiance to Union Recognize new governments when 10% swear allegiance. Killed in April, 1865. Andrew Johnson’s Plan : Follow Lincoln.

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THE PLANS OF RECONSTRUCTION

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  1. THE PLANS OF RECONSTRUCTION

  2. Three Plans • Lincoln: Treat South with kindness. • Pardons if you swear allegiance to Union • Recognize new governments when 10% swear allegiance. • Killed in April, 1865.

  3. Andrew Johnson’s Plan: Follow Lincoln. • Recognizes 4 Southern Governments, plans to admit others. • Impeached by Congress and Republicans. Plan dies.

  4. RADICAL REPUBLICAN PLAN • Divide South into 5 Military Districts • Blacks MUST be given right to vote • States must ratify 14th amendment. • Former Confederates could not hold office. Hanging of Mary Suratt

  5. Key Terms of Reconstruction • Scalawags: White Southerners involved in new Governments. • Carpetbaggers: Northerners who came South to take part in Reconstruction. • Jim Crow Laws: Laws placed to keep Freedmen in “control”. (Literacy tests, land requirements, grandfather clauses.) BLACK CODES • Ku Klux Klan: Formed to terrorize Blacks and Northerners. Nathan Bedford Forrest.

  6. Freedman’s Bureau: Created by Congress in 1865 to assist slaves. • Plessy v. Ferguson: Segregation is LEGAL as long as Blacks have “equal but separate” facilities.

  7. Civil War Amendments • 13th: (1865) Abolishes Slavery • 14th: (1868) Declares Blacks Citizens. Forbids taking away rights without “Due Process” and grants “equal protection of the law” • 15th: (1870) Voting can not be denied due to race or color.

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