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Summary Reconstruction of the USA
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- History of the USA (9489)
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Cambridge AS and A level history of the USA 9489 Reconstruction of the USA
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Reconstruction,Reconstruction 1865-1877
the rebuilding +
readmission of Southern states into the Union following the civil war
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period of time in which the US recovered from the civil war
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the adjustment of African Americans from slavery
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>
freedom
biggest issue
Abraham Lincoln Andrew Johnson and Congress all had different plans how to it
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on approach
presidential Reconstruction
Abraham Lincoln
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made it clear he intended to be lenient on the South
in the summer of 1863 , Lincoln
presented his proclamation of and reconstruction
amnesty
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better known as :
' '
The lot .
plan
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former Confederates would be pardoned except,
for high ranking officials
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Southern states can return to the Union once 10% of eligible voters from 1060 swear an oath of
allegiance to the United States
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Over 50% of 1060 voting population had to swear an oath they NEVER supported the
Confederacy
Congress opposed and the Wade Davis Bill
suggested
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Once the war ended some states did begin undergoing the process outlined
by Lincoln
Louisiana , Arkansas Tennessee and
Virginia
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Lincolns plan however, did not sit well with a vocal and powerful Republican minority
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( Massachusetts) and Thaddeus Stevens (of Pennsylvania)
including Senators Charles : vainer of
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They belonged to a group known as the :
RADICAL REPUBLICANS
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Leader : Thaddeus Stevens '
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Wanted to destroy the slave power in the South , restructure Southern politics and most importantly
wanted African-Americans to receive citizenship and right to vote
, However Lincoln Wilkes Booth before he could really implement
was assassinated by John
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his reconstruction plans
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Andrew Johnson had plans of his own
Andrew Johnson
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Southerner from the state of Tennessee
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Johnson was actually a democrat and a states rights supporter
He happened to have grown up poor and strongly opposed the Southern slaveholders held on the
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region
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Lincoln selected Johnson to be his running mate in the 1864 Presidential election in order to help
broaden the appeal of the Republican Party
Lincoln needed to secure votes of Northern Democrats
by in the border states
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' '
Presidential Reconstruction ~
announced
May 1865
to Lincoln 's
{ imilar
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deny high Confederates
main difference is that Johnson moved to
ranking and
wealthy
planters from having ANY
voting rights
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Pardoned around 13 ooo former Confederates
By pardoning them Johnson ensured that
they would not be punished for crimes
any
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regarding secession } could immediately gain their political rights
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Johnsons motive : ensure all white ppl and not the
newly freed men would control the South
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The
remaining Southern states that had not
begun the process of remittance (except Texas)
jumped on Johnson's plan
state and elected represent
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they set
up new constitutions ,
elected new
governments ppl to
them in
Congress
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