Reconstruction Era Lesson

Reconstruction Era Review

1865-1877

Presidential Plan

Radical Plan

President Johnson's Plan for Reconstruction

• Pardoned white Southern Confederates

• Returned land to white owners and out of Freedmen's ownership

• Southern states enacted Black Codes

• Southerners created their own new state governments

• Is this Healing?

• Is this Justice?

Radical Reconstruction Plan

• Developed by Radical Republicans

• Wanted to punish Southerners

• Created 5 military zones to govern the Southern states, Union generals in charge

• Southern states required to rewrite their Constitutions

• Passed the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments to the Constitution

• Is this healing?

• Is this Justice?

Poll

Which plan do you believe was more about healing (uniting the country)?

• Presidential Plan

• Radical Republican Plan

Poll

Which plan do you think was more about justice (giving Freedpeople equal citizenship)?

• President Johnson's Plan

• Radical Republicans plan

Open Ended

What are the positives and negatives in the Presidential Plan?

Open Ended

What are the positives and negatives in the Radical Plan?