Another Brick in the Wall
Lincoln’s Plan
Preserve Union
Forgiving Peace -”With malice toward none, with charity for all.” -Amnesty Proclamation - 10% voters to restore statehood
Lincoln’s Assassination -Ford’s Theater -John Wilkes Booth
Radical Plan
Radical Republicans
Thaddeus Stevens Charles Sumner
Wade-Davis Bill
“Ironclad Oath”
Radical Reconstruction Act 1867
Martial Law Bans former Confederates
Reconstruction Amendments
13th Amendment Officially abolished and continues to prohibit slavery
14th Amendment Defines citizenship and protects a person's civil and political rights from being abridged or denied by any state
15th Amendment Prohibits government from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's “race, color, or previous condition of servitude"
The South
Tenant Farming
Sharecropping
Freedman’s Bureau
Education Schools
Carpetbaggers
Scalawags
Andrew Johnson
President after Lincoln Assassintation Repeated clashes with Radicals Southern Loyalty? Tenure of Office Act Impeached, but acquitted.
Which would you choose?