Rebuild
radical reconstruction plan
Johnson's plans
compromise of 1877
licoln's plan
issued the Proclamation Of Amnesty And Reconstruction in 1863 to announce his intention to reunite the once-united states. Lincoln hoped that the proclamation would rally northern support for the war and persuade weary Confederate soldiers to surrender.
To appeal to poorer whites, he offered to Pardon all Confederates; to appeal to former plantation owners and southern aristocrats, he pledged to Protect Private Property.
started the reconstruction to reunify the North and South after the war’s end.
included the Ten-Percent Plan,which specified that a southern state could be readmitted into the Union once 10 % of its voters swore an oath of allegiance to the Union.
were the minority party in Congress,
they gained control of the House of Representatives and the Senate and thus gained sufficient power to override any potential vetoes by President Andrew Johnson.
hoped to control the Reconstruction process, transform southern society, disband the planter aristocracy, redistribute land, develop industry, and guarantee civil liberties for former slaves.
While Radicals in Congress successfully passed rights legislation, southerners all but ignored these laws. The newly formed southern governments established public schools, but they were still segregated and did not receive enough funding. Black literacy rates did improve
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.
n May 1865, President Andrew Johnson offered a pardon to all white Southerners except Confederate leaders and wealthy planters (although most of these later received individual pardons), and authorized them to create new governments.
Members of the old Southern elite, including many who had served in the Confederate government and army, returned to power.
The conduct of the governments he established turned many Northerners against the president's policies.
Johnson's vetoes of Reconstruction legislation and opposition to the Fourteenth Amendment alienated most Republicans.
In 1865 President Andrew Johnson implemented a plan of Reconstruction that gave the white South a free hand in regulating the transition from slavery to freedom and offered no role to blacks in the politics of the South.
The compromise essentially stated that Southern Democrats would acknowledge Hayes as president, but only on the understanding that Republicans would meet certain demands.
Hayes would remove the federal troops whose support was essential for the survival of Republican state governments in South Carolina, Florida and Louisiana
The Compromise of 1877 was an informal, unwritten deal that settled the intensely disputed 1876 U.S. presidential election.