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lincoln's reconstruction plan
In December 1863 president Lincoln’s ten-percent plan: Lincoln before his death, has made it clear the favored a lenient reconstruction policy.Meaning that the government will pardon all confederates except the high ranking ones which those were accused of being prisoners of war. -
Key player Thaddeus stevens
Wanted to destroy political power from former slaveholders. Most of all wanted African Americans to have full citizenship and the right to vote. -
Wade-Davis Bill
proposed that congress, not the president, be responsible for reconstruction. Also declared that for a state government to be formed, a majority-not just ten percent- of those eligible to vote in 1860 would have to take a solemn oath to support the constitution. -
Civil rights act of 1866
Congress passed this act which gave African Americans citizenship and forbade states from passing discriminatory laws(black codes) that severely restricted African american's lives. Soon states started enacting black codes in 1865. -
Black codes made
in 1865 they had the effect of restoring many of the restrictions of slavery by prohibiting blacks from carrying weapons, serving on juries, testifying against whites, marrying whites, and traveling without permits. -
presidential Reconstruction
Declared that each remaining confederate state- Alabama, Florida, geargi, Mississippi, north Carolina, south Carolina, and Texas- could be readmitted to the union if it would meet several conditions. Each state would have yo withdraw its secession, swear allegiance to the union, annul confederate war debts,and ratify the 13th amendment, which abolished slavery -
Freedman's Bureau
It assisted former slaves and poor whited in the south by distributing clothing and food. In addition it set up more than 40 hospitals, approximately 4,000 schools , 61 industrial institutes and 74 teacher training centers -
fourteenth amendment
The amendment addresses citizenship rights and equal protection of the laws, and was proposed in response to issues related to former slaves following the American Civil War.