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Reconstruction

Reconstruction. American History 10.1. Define the following Vocab. Amnesty Pocket Veto Black Codes Impeach Radical Republicans Freedman’s Bureau Civil Rights Act of 1855 14 th Amendment 15 th Amendment. Disagreement's Over Reconstruction. Southern State Governments?

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Reconstruction

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  1. Reconstruction American History 10.1

  2. Define the following Vocab • Amnesty • Pocket Veto • Black Codes • Impeach • Radical Republicans • Freedman’s Bureau • Civil Rights Act of 1855 • 14th Amendment • 15th Amendment

  3. Disagreement's Over Reconstruction • Southern State Governments? • Amnesty for high ranking Confederate officials • Protection of formerly enslaved African American rights?

  4. The south after the Civil War • Southern economy on brink of collapse • 2/3s of transportation in ruins • No slave labor for Agriculture

  5. Lincoln’s Plan Vs Radical Republicans Lincoln’s Plan Radical Republcans Thaddeus Stephens of PA Charles Sumner of MA No leaders of Confederacy can be in power Republican party most powerful institution in the south Political Equality for African Americans • Amnesty for Confederates who take oath to United States and accepted proclamations over slavery • 10% needed for rejoining the Union • No pardon for those who left Union for Confederacy

  6. 3/5’s Compromise • South would get more seats in congress after the Civil War • Africans no longer count as 3/5ths

  7. Wade Davis Bill • Moderate Republicans didn’t like either plan • Bill required: • All confederate males take oath • Constitutional Convention for new state gov • Must abolish slavery • Reject all confederacy debt • No Confederate officials in new state gov • Lincoln Blocked the Bill with Pocket Veto

  8. Freedman’s Bureau • 40,000 Africans settle on abandoned plantations near Charleston • Congress establishes Freedman’s Bureau • Feed and cloth war refugees • Helped Freed Africans find work on Plantations • Negotiated labor contracts • “Forty acres and Mule” Rejected by congress • Educated African Americans

  9. President Johnson’s Plan • Lincoln’s Vice president Andrew Johnson • Restoration Program, much like Lincolns

  10. Republican Anger • South elected former Confederates to Congress • Black Codes: limited African American rights -much like slavery -Beatings, labor contracts, state license for non-agriculture work

  11. Republicans Respond to Black Codes • Civil Rights act of 1866 • 14th Amendment : Cant deprive someone of life, liberty or property w/o due process from law.

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