THE PLANS OF RECONSTRUCTION

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THE PLANS OF RECONSTRUCTION
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Three Plans

• Lincoln Treat South with kindness.
• Pardons if you swear allegiance to Union
• Recognize new governments when 10 swear
  allegiance.
• Killed in April, 1865.

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• Andrew Johnsons Plan Follow Lincoln.
• Recognizes 4 Southern Governments, plans to admit
  others.
• Impeached by Congress and Republicans. Plan dies.

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RADICAL REPUBLICAN PLAN

• Divide South into 5 Military Districts
• Blacks MUST be given right to vote
• States must ratify 14th amendment.
• Former Confederates could not hold office.

Hanging of Mary Suratt
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Key Terms of Reconstruction

• Scalawags White Southerners involved in new
  Governments.
• Carpetbaggers Northerners who came South to take
  part in Reconstruction.
• Jim Crow Laws Laws placed to keep Freedmen in
  control. (Literacy tests, land requirements,
  grandfather clauses.) BLACK CODES
• Ku Klux Klan Formed to terrorize Blacks and
  Northerners. Nathan Bedford Forrest.

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• Freedmans Bureau Created by Congress in 1865 to
  assist slaves.
• Plessy v. Ferguson Segregation is LEGAL as long
  as Blacks have equal but separate facilities.

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Civil War Amendments

• 13th (1865) Abolishes Slavery
• 14th (1868) Declares Blacks Citizens. Forbids
  taking away rights without Due Process and
  grants equal protection of the law
• 15th (1870) Voting can not be denied due to race
  or color.