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Rebuild
Radical Reconstruction Plan
oppose Lincoln 10 percent policy
Wade-Davis Bill (1864)
Lincoln refused to sign it
Wade-Davis Manifesto
only non-Confederates allowed to vote for a new state constitution
required 50 percent of state voters to take oath
championed civil rights for blacks
Charles Sumner in Senate
Thaddeus Stevens in HOR hoped to revolutionize South through extended period of military rule and blacks given civil rights and lands from the planters
wanted to extend equal rights for all Americans
Civil Rights Act
Johnson's Plan
Reconstruction Proclamation
pres retained power to grant individual pardons to "disloyal" Southerners
disenfranchisement for all former Conf leaders and those with more than $20000 in taxable property
Clash with radical republicans
Vice President under Lincoln
Pro-Union Democrat from South
Vetoes the freedman bureau and a civil rights bill
Compromise of 1877
Brought reconstruction to an end
Congress brought down reconstruction acts that protected blacks from discrimination
South took away the rights of freedmen
Democrats allow Hayes (republican) to become president
He would end federal support for Republicans in the South
He support the building of a Southern transcontinental RailRoad
One democrat in his cabinet
Florida, South Carolina, and Louisiana become democratic again
Lincoln's Plan
Proclamation of Amnesty and Reconstruction (1863)
Full presidential pardons would be granted to most Confederates who took an oath of allegiance to Union and US Constitution and accepted emancipation
meant that each state in South would have to rewrite its state constitution to eliminate slavery
Unionists in charge rather than secessionists
To shorten the war and add weight to Emancipation Proclamation
A state gov could be reestablished and accepted as soon as at least 10 percent of voters in state took loyalty oath
In his last speech he encouraged Northerners to accept Louisiana as a reconstructed state
Thought Southern States never left Union
hoped they could be reestablished by meeting a minimum test of political loyalty