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Reconstruction

Reconstruction. Rebuilding Our Nation. Questions:. Should the South be punished? What rights do African Americans have? How should the nation be brought back together?. Lincoln’s Plan.

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Reconstruction

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  1. Reconstruction Rebuilding Our Nation

  2. Questions: • Should the South be punished? • What rights do African Americans have? • How should the nation be brought back together?

  3. Lincoln’s Plan • 10% plan- when 10% of voters in a state vow loyalty to the Union, the state could form a new government and state Constitution that abolishes slavery.

  4. Granted Southern States.. • Amnesty or pardons to all white southern except Confederate leaders who vowed loyalty to the Union.

  5. Give African Americans who served in the military • The right to vote.

  6. Radical Republicans • Thought Lincoln was being too lenient with the South. • The South need to be punished!

  7. Wade Davis Bill • Majority of whites need to swear loyalty in order to be readmitted. • Former Confederate leaders couldnot hold office. • Must create a new state constitution that abolishes slavery

  8. Lincoln refused to sign Wade Davis Bill, feels that it isharsh! • Compromise must be reached!

  9. What was the Freedmen’s Bureau?

  10. Lincoln is Assassinated! • Andrew Johnson, the vice president, is sworn in as President, and now must Rebuild the Nation!

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