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E X P L A I N T H E D I F F E R E N C E S I N L I N C O L N ’ S A N D
C O N G R E S S ’ R E C O N S T R U C T I O N P L A N S
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D I S C U S S J O H N S O N ’ S P L A N F O R
R E C O N S T R U C T I O N
E X P L A I N H O W T H E B L A C K C O D E S W E R E L I K E A
C O N T I N U A T I O N O F S L A V E R Y

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WHAT WERE THE ENDURING PROBLEMS CREATED BY
THE CIVIL WAR?

 Read p. 399-404 using the focus questions to take notes (textbook)
 Questions
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What was Lincoln’s 10 Percent Plan?
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What were the consequences of the Civil War?
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What was the Emancipation Proclamation?
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What were 3 precedents set in the Washington administration?

 “With
toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives to us to see the right, let us strive on….to bind up the nation’s wounds…to do all which may achieve a just and lasting peace.”
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What was Lincoln’s intent in this portion of his 2 nd inaugural address?

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The Old South destroyed
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4 million freedpeople
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Loss of labor
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Hoped for freedom + “40 Acres and a
Mule”
 infrastructure of the south destroyed
 disease, hunger and poor sanitation

Cities, like Charleston, lay in ruins…

 President should guide
Reconstruction

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Proclamation of Amnesty and
Reconstruction
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(a.k.a. The 10% Plan)
 amnesty to anyone who swearing allegiance to US Const. and Fed. Gov.
 state could reenter the Union after 10% of residents who voted in 1860 swore allegiance to US

Congressional Reconstruction = Mistrust of
Southern Whites
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Opposed the 10% Plan
Congress should guide Reconstruction
Wade- Davis Bill
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Abolish Slavery
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Majority of each state’s white males take loyalty oath
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Vetoed by Lincoln

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Johnson opposed by
Congress
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Former slave owner from TN
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Openly racist

 Johnson’s Plan
 blanket pardon for all rebels
 readmission required:
 nullify secession
 abolish slavery – 13 th am.
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Refusal to pay Confederate debts
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Allowed former Confederates to gain Congressional seats in the Elections of 1865

How Black Codes were Like an Extension of
Slavery
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New State Constitutions included laws that limited the rights of freedmen
Examples
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Could not:
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Meet
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Own a gun
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Travel without permits
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Labor contracts had to be signed