Reconstruction Era Policies and Plans

The period from 1865 to 1877 is

usually known as the era of?

• Reconstruction era
• Civil War era
• Gilded Age era
• Industrial Revolution era

characteristics of Lincolns 10% plan

• The plan mandated that 50% of Southern voters must pledge loyalty to the Union.
• Lincoln's 10% Plan required all Southern states to abolish slavery before rejoining.
• *military governer for each captured state

  *10% who voted in 1860 had to pledge allegiance to the union

  *many pardons to south

• Lincoln's 10% Plan was only applicable to Northern states seeking statehood.

wade Davis bill characteristics

• The Wade-Davis Bill required a majority loyalty oath, abolition of slavery, black suffrage, no suffrage for confederate leaders, no war debt paid, military governer

• The Wade-Davis Bill focused solely on economic recovery.
• The Wade-Davis Bill allowed for the continuation of slavery.
• The Wade-Davis Bill required only a simple majority vote.

radical representative Thaddeus Stevens views

• Thaddeus Stevens was a conservative representative.
• viewed the south under the direct authority of congress

• Thaddeus Stevens focused solely on economic issues.
• Thaddeus Stevens opposed civil rights and equality.

Radical Senator Charles Sumner view on south

• believed the readmission of Southern

  states should be determined by

  Congress.

• Sumner believed the South was a model of virtue.
• Sumner thought the South should remain unchanged.
• Sumner viewed the South as economically prosperous.

johnson's plan for reconstruction

• Johnson's plan offered amnesty to southerners who would swear loyalty, and ratify the Thirteenth Amendment

• Each Confederate state convention would draft a new state

  constitution that would revoke its declaration of secession

• refuse

  to pay Confederate debts

• Johnson's plan aimed for harsh penalties on Southern states.

what were the black codes

• Laws that granted equal rights to all citizens in the South.
• Regulations that promoted African American businesses after the Civil War.
• The Black Codes were laws which seemed to keep African Americans in a

  condition like slavery.

• Policies that aimed to integrate African Americans into public schools.

what was the Freedmen’s

Bureau

• It issued rations and attempted to

  locate jobs for the freedmen.

• It helped former slaves and refugees.

• It established schools and

  hospitals for black people of all ages.

• A government program to promote industrialization in the North.

who was the head of the freedmen's bureau

• Frederick Douglass
• Abraham Lincoln
• Ulysses S. Grant
• Union General Oliver O. Howard, “the Christian

  general”

what were the 4 provisions of the 14th amendment

• Voting Rights Clause
• 1) Citizenship Clause, 2) Due Process Clause, 3) Equal Protection Clause, 4) Privileges or Immunities Clause.
• *Defined citizenship

  *Stated that representation would be based on the whole population

  *Prevented Confederate leaders from voting or holding office

  unless Congress pardoned them

  *Stated that Congress repudiated Confederate debts

• Freedom of Speech Clause