Rebuild
Johnson's Plan
Lincoln's Plan
Radical Reconstruction Plan
Compromise of 1877
Proclamation of Amnesty and Reconstruction
Any rebel state can form Union government when 10% of those who voted in 1860 took oath of allegiance to the Constitution and Union had received presidential pardon
Lincoln vetoed Wade-Davis bill
Full presidential pardons would be granted if...
Confeds took allegiance to Union and Constitution
accepted emancipation of slaves
Wade Bill: required 50% of voters of a state to take loyalty oath and permitted non-confeds to vote for new state constitution
Lincoln encouraged northerners to accept Louisiana as a reconstructed state
Disfranchisement: right to vote and hold office
Applied to all former leaders and office holders of Confeds
Applied to Confeds w/ more than $20k in taxable property
Granted pardons to disloyal southerners
Black codes
prevented blacks from either renting land or borrowing money to buy land
placed freedmen into a form of semi-bondage forcing them into as vagrants and apprentices, to sign out of work contracts
prevented blacks from testifying against whites in court
Civil Rights Act of 1866
Pronounced all blacks to be US citizens
Attempted to provide legal shield against operation of southern states' black codes
14th amendment
all persons born or naturalized in US == citizens
obligated the states to respect the rights of US citizens and provide them w/ equal protection of laws and due process of law
Disqualified former confed political leaders from holding state or federal office
Repudiated debts of defeated govt of Confeds
Penalized state if kept any eligible person from voting by reducing state's proportional presentation in Congress and electoral college
Immediately end federal support for republicans in south
support building of Southern transcontinental railroad
Had P. Hayes withdraw federal troops protecting blacks and republicans
Ended Reconstruction period to end
govt loyalty to union appeared in Tennessee, Arkansas, Louisiana, but Congress recognized them neither in terms of rep or in counting electoral votes of 1864
Lincoln claimed right to direct Reconstruction under state republican govt
Similar to Lincoln's 10% plan
Lincoln 10% was omitted
Johnson called upon state conventions to invalidate secession ordinances, abolish slavery, repudiate debts