“Blood cannot restore blood, and
government should not act for
revenge” Who stated this quote?
• Aftermath and Attitudes
• The Great Question
• Conditions of Return
• With full powers?
• Whose Job? President or Congress?
• Political, Economic, Social rights
• African American rights
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Lincolns 10% plan (1863)
Rebellion and Pardon
Wade – Davis bill 1864
Lincoln’s pocket veto
The Deadliest Bullet
(April 1865)
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Reconstruction without Lincoln
Andrew Johnson
Background
Assumptions
Presidential Reconstruction
Individuals
Oaths, amnesty
• States
• Repeal secession
• Void confederacy
• Ratify 13th amendment
• Problems
• Black codes
• Ex-confederates
• Civil Rights Act (1866)
• Johnson’s veto / override
• Treatment of Freedmen
• Race riots
• Campaign of 1866
• Johnson’s “stump speeches”
• Results
• Radical victory
• Veto proof
• The Radicals &
Secessionists
• Two Coats – Lincoln
• The Radical Republicans
• Charles Sumner (state
suicide theory)
• Thaddeus Stevens
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Ben Wade
Priorities
Politician Radicals
Businessman Radicals
Humanitarian Radicals
4 Reconstruction Acts
Military Distrusts
• Martial Law
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Ex-parte Milligan – 1866
Ex-parte McCardle– 1869
President vs. Congress
Parliamentary System
Command of Army Act 1867
Tenure of Office Act 1867
• Johnsons’ impeachment Trial
• “High crimes and
Misdemeanors”
• The Case and Loopholes
• Edmund Ross and Others
• “My Open Grave”
• Senate Vote
• Election of 1863
• Ulysses S. Grant
The original most interesting man in the
world
• Reconstruction Amendments
• 13th – Abolish Slavery
• 14th – Due process of Law Equal Protection of Law
• 15th – Manhood Suffrage