The Learning Target: Reconstruction ESSAY!
U.S. History
2/9/2018
The Learning Target: Reconstruction ESSAY!
Black Codes/ Radical Republicans/ Civil Rights Act of 1866 / 14th15th Amendments
NO TALKING / NO ELECTRONICS / BOOK ONLY OR 0/100!!!
Review what you’ve learned on “Reconstruction” Pages 415-425
Here is a 4 minute refresher 1st. THIS WILL GO FAST SO BE READY!!!
Create a 1.5- 2 page paper citing your reconstruction plan, steps, and advanced details!
-Know both Wade-Davis and the Lincoln 10% plans!!
-Use facts to support your ideas and beliefs!
-1.5 pages minimum for MR. HAJEK-BOOTHBY to receive full-points!!
-Create a quality paper = 100 POINTS.
“Your Reconstruction” paper is due by the end of the period!!!
+Final VIDEO final 10 minutes!
If you were gone YESTERDAY READ pages 422-427 FIRST!
Lincoln’s The Ten-Percent Plan
Lincoln’s blueprint for Reconstruction included the Ten-Percent Plan, which specified that a southern state could be readmitted into the Union once 10 percent of its voters (from the voter rolls for the election of 1860) swore an oath of allegiance to the Union. Voters could then elect delegates to draft revised state constitutions and establish new state governments. All southerners except for high-ranking Confederate army officers and government officials would be granted a full pardon. Lincoln guaranteed southerners that he would protect their private property, though not their slaves.
The Radical Republicans
Many leading Republicans in Congress feared that Lincoln’s plan for Reconstruction was not harsh enough, believing that the South needed to be punished for causing the war. These Radical Republicans hoped to control the Reconstruction process, transform southern society, disband the planter aristocracy, redistribute land, develop industry, and guarantee civil liberties for former slaves. Although the Radical Republicans were the minority party in Congress, they managed to sway many moderates in the postwar years and came to dominate Congress in later sessions.
The Wade-Davis Bill
In the summer of 1864, the Radical Republicans passed the Wade-Davis Bill to counter Lincoln’s Ten-Percent Plan. The bill stated that a southern state could rejoin the Union only if 50 percent of its registered voters swore an “ironclad oath” of allegiance to the United States. The bill also established safeguards for black civil liberties but did not give blacks the right to vote.
Johnson’s Plan!
His amnesty proclamation (May 29, 1865) was more severe than Lincoln'sit disenfranchised all former military and civil officers of the Confederacy and all those who owned property worth $20,000 or more and made their estates liable to confiscation. The obvious intent was to shift political control in the South from the old planter aristocracy to the small farmers and artisans, and it promised to accomplish a revolution in Southern society.
With Congress in adjournment from April to Dec., 1865, Johnson put his plan into operation. Under provisional governors appointed by him, the Southern states held conventions that voided or repealed their ordinances of secession, abolished slavery, and (except South Carolina) repudiated Confederate debts. Their newly elected legislatures (except Mississippi) ratified the Thirteenth Amendment guaranteeing freedom for blacks.
Read more: Reconstruction: Johnson's Plan
