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CHAPTER 12 SECTION 1
RIVAL PLANS FOR RECONSTRUCTION
FOCUS QUESTION
How did the Radical Republicans’ plans for Reconstruction differ from Lincoln’s and Johnson’s?
 _______________________ wanted to punish the South for slavery and the war itself.
Both Lincoln and Johnson wanted the southern states to be brought back into the Union quickly,
using less _______________________ measures.

The issues and results _______________________had consequences for generations to come.
THE SOUTH DESTROYED

When the war ended, the South was in _______________________.
• _______________________ were burned
•
_______________________ closed
•
properties _______________________
•
freed ____________________________lacked full citizenship and the means to make a living
RECONSTRUCTION PLAN

A plan of _______________________ for the South was formed.
• to help the South rejoin the _______________________
• to _______________________ the South’s shattered _______________________
• to create _______________________ to protect freed ________________________________
CONFLICTING OPINIONS
• To many Americans, the most important issue was deciding the fate of the Confederate states.
• There were conflicting _______________________.
Try Confederate leaders for ___________________ _______________________ Confederate leaders to
begin healing immediately
The __________________ should lead the process.
___________________ should lead Reconstruction
States should satisfy certain __________________
States should be allowed to rejoin with as few
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before rejoining.
_______________________ as possible.
THE ISSUE OF LAND OWNERSHIP
• With the South’s economy destroyed, _______________________ became the most valuable
_______________________; who should control it was hotly debated.
o Forty acres and a mule
•
Some northerners proposed the federal government should ______________________ the
land to former slaves.
•
The plan sought to _______________________ the South’s economy and provide
_______________________ for African Americans.
•
Southern landowners fought government _______________________ of their land.
•
Many northerners felt the _______________________of property violated the
_______________________.
AFRICAN AMERICANS
• African Americans were free from slavery but their rights were not _______________________.
•
did not have full _______________________
•
could not _______________________
•
did not have _______________________ to _______________________
CONFLICTING PLANS
•
_______________________ and the Radical Republicans in Congress were at _____________ in
their proposals to rebuild the South.
Lincoln’s _______________________Plan
_________________________________ Bill
• 10 percent of state’s voters needed to take a
• required a _______________________of
state’s prewar voters swear loyalty to the
_______________________
• a state’s new constitution must have
Union
• required _______________________ of
_______________________ slavery
African American equality
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Passed by Congress,
_______________________ by Congress
________________________________ by Lincoln
FREEDMEN’S BUREAU
• Lincoln and the _______________________________agreed to establish the Freedmen’s Bureau.
o The newly-formed organization helped __________________, __________________, and
__________________ blacks and whites in the South.
JOHNSON TAKES OVER
• After Lincoln’s death, President ______________________________________________wanted
to restore the _______________________ of the southern states.
•
He _______________________ those who swore allegiance to the Union and the Constitution.
•
Each Southern state needed to _______________________ the Thirteenth Amendment.
SOUTHERN RESISTANCE
•
By December 1865, most southern states had met Johnson’s requirements for
_______________________ to the _______________________.
• During the required state _______________________, however, southern states tried
to _______________________ their prewar world.
•
All southern states instituted __________________________________________.
•
Many states specifically __________________ the vote to __________________.
•
Some states sent _______________________ officials to Congress.
TENSION IN CONGRESS
•
Political _______________________ boiled up in Congress
•
Newly arriving southern state representatives were not _______________________.
•
A committee was created to _______________________ how former ___________________
were being treated.
ANSWER TO SOUTHERN RESISTANCE
•
The South’s disregard of _______________________ efforts angered ______________________
and _______________________ Republicans.
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•
In response, Congress passed new _______________________ over President Johnson’s veto.
The legislation included:
• the ______________________________________________of 1866.
• the _______________________ Amendment.
• the division of the South into five ______________________________________________.
THE 14TH AMENDMENT
The Fourteenth Amendment, 1868
• _______________________ under the law for all _______________________
• States that refused to allow black people to _______________________ would risk losing seats in
the ______________________________________________
• Confederate _______________________ could not hold federal or state ____________________
JOHNSON IMPEACHED
• President Johnson continued to __________________ and work against congressional legislation.
• Eventually the House voted to _______________________ Johnson.
• Johnson’s opponents _________________ by one Senate __________ to remove him from office.
THE 15TH AMENDMENT
• Under a new President, ______________________________________________, Congress
passed the _______________________ Amendment.
• The Fifteenth Amendment, _______________________
• No citizen can be _______________________ the right to _______________________ because
of “race, color, or previous condition of _______________________.”
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