1. EXPLAIN HOW THE CIVIL WAR AFFECTED SOUTHERN LIFE
2. EXPLAIN THE DIFFERENCES IN LINCOLN’S AND CONGRESS’ RECONSTRUCTION PLANS
3. DISCUSS JOHNSON’S PLAN FOR RECONSTRUCTION4. EXPLAIN HOW THE BLACK CODES WERE LIKE A
CONTINUATION OF SLAVERY
Ch 13.1Presidential Reconstruction
Copy HW
Read p. 399-404 using the focus questions to take notes (textbook)
Questions What was Lincoln’s 10 Percent Plan? What were the consequences of the Civil War? What was the Emancipation Proclamation? What were 3 precedents set in the Washington
administration?
Intro
“With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives to us to see the right, let us strive on….to bind up the nation’s wounds…to do all which may achieve a just and lasting peace.”
What was Lincoln’s intent in this portion of his 2nd inaugural address?
How the Civil War Affected Southern Life
The Old South destroyed 4 million freedpeople
Loss of laborHoped for freedom + “40 Acres and a Mule”
infrastructure of the south destroyed
disease, hunger and poor sanitation
Proclamation of Amnesty and Reconstruction(a.k.a. The 10% Plan)
amnesty to anyone who swearing allegiance to US Const. and Fed. Gov.
state could reenter the Union after 10% of residents who voted in 1860 swore allegiance to US
Congressional Reconstruction = Mistrust of Southern Whites
Opposed the 10% Plan Congress should guide ReconstructionWade- Davis Bill
Abolish Slavery Majority of each state’s white males take
loyalty oath
Vetoed by Lincoln
Johnson’s Plan for Reconstruction
Johnson opposed by Congress Former slave owner
from TN Openly racist
Johnson’s Plan blanket pardon for all rebels readmission required:
nullify secessionabolish slavery – 13th am.Refusal to pay Confederate debts
Allowed former Confederates to gain Congressional seats in the Elections of 1865