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Reconstruction Plans
By Jack Garrity
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• Chapter 12• Pages 374-382
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The Big Idea reading together
• In the months after the Civil War, the nation began the effort to rebuild and reunite.
• Lincoln, and Congress all had different ideas on how to rebuild and reunite the country.
• The Freedman’s Bureau helped prevent mass starvation in the South and made some long-term contributions to the American tapestry.
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The Reconstruction Battle Begins
Millions of emancipated African Americans faced freedom in a devastated South.
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The Reconstruction Battle Begins
By 1865 large areas of the former Confederacy lay in ruins.
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The Reconstruction Battle Begins
Union troops and cannons had left few Southern cities untouched. Describing Columbia, the capital of South Carolina, a Northern reporter noted, “Two-thirds of the buildings in the place were burned, including . . . everything in the business portion. Not a store, office, or shop escaped.”
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The Reconstruction Battle Begins
The economy collapsed. Land values plummeted, Confederate money worthless.
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The Reconstruction Battle Begins
The agricultural plantation system could not work without slave labor, and southerners needed to develop some new system.
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The Reconstruction Battle Begins
2/3 of the roads and railroads were destroyed.
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The Reconstruction Battle Begins
The president and Congress grappled with the difficult task of Reconstruction, or rebuilding after the war.
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Key Questions
1. How do webring the Southback into the
Union?
2. How do we rebuild the
South after itsdestruction
during the war?
3. How do weintegrate andprotect newly-emancipated
African Americans?
4. What branchof governmentshould controlthe process of
Reconstruction?
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Lincoln’s Plan As Union forces advanced into Tennessee, Arkansas, and Louisiana in 1862, President Lincoln appointed military governors for the regions under Union control.
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Lincoln’s Plan
Lincoln wanted a moderate policy that would reconcile the South with the Union instead of punishing it for treason.
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Lincoln’s Plan In December 1863, Lincoln offered a general amnesty to all Southerners who took an oath of loyalty to the United States and accepted the Union’s proclamations concerning slavery.
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• amnesty from the Greek ἀμνηστία amnestia, "forgetfulness") :: " the act of a goverment officially forgiving certain classes of persons who are subject to trial but have not yet been convicted.
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Lincoln’s Plan
When 10 percent of a state’s voters in the 1860 presidential election had taken this oath, they could organize a new state government.
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The Radical Republicans Resistance to Lincoln’s plan surfaced at once among the more radical Republicans in Congress.
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The Radical Republicans Led by Representative Thaddeus Stevens of Pennsylvania and Senator Charles Sumner of Massachusetts, the radicals did not want to reconcile with the South.
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The Radical Republicans
They wanted, in Stevens’s words, to “revolutionize Southern institutions, habits, and manners.”
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The Radical Republicans
Radical Republicans had three main goals. First, they wanted to prevent the leaders of the Confederacy from returning to power after the war.
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The Radical Republicans
Second, they wanted the Republican Party to become a powerful institution in the South.
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The Radical Republicans Third, they wanted the federal government to help African Americans achieve political equality by guaranteeing their right to vote in the South.
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The Radical Republicans Republicans knew that the South would gain about 15 seats in the House of Representatives. Before the Civil War, the number of Southern seats in the House was based on the Three-Fifths Compromise in the Constitution.
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The Radical Republicans
Most had been abolitionists and morally believed in equal rights.
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The Radical Republicans
Senator Henry Wilson of Massachusetts summarized their position by saying:“[Congress] must see to it that the man made free by the Constitution is a freeman indeed; that he can go where he pleases, work when and for whom he pleases . . . go into schools and educate himself and his children; that the rights and guarantees of the common law are his, and that he walks the earth proud and erect in the conscious dignity of a free man.”
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The Radical Republicans
With political power and a vocal morality, the Radical Republicans united to insure civil rights for African Americans.
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The Wade-Davis Bill
A large number of moderate Republicans were caught between Lincoln and the Radical Republicans.
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The Wade-Davis Bill
Moderates thought Lincoln too lenient, but they also thought the radicals were going too far in their support for African Americans.
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The Wade-Davis Bill
In the summer of 1864, the Republicans came up with an alternative to Lincoln’s plan.
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The Wade-Davis BillThe Wade-Davis Bill required the majority of the adult white men to take an oath of allegiance to the Union. The state could then hold a constitutional convention to create a new state government.
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The Wade-Davis BillEach state’s convention would then have to abolish slavery, reject all debts the state had acquired as part of the Confederacy, and deprive all former Confederate government officials and military officers of the right to vote or hold office.
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The Wade-Davis Bill Although Congress passed the Wade-Davis Bill, Lincoln blocked it with a pocket veto. that is, he let the session of Congress expire without signing
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• Pocket veto: when Congress passes a Law, does not sign the bill and Congress’ session ends.
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Although Lincoln sympathized with some of the radical goals, he did not want to make a harsh peace.
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The Freedmen’s BureauThe devastation of the war and the collapse of the economy left hundreds of thousands of people unemployed, homeless, and hungry.
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The Freedmen’s Bureau As Sherman marched through Georgia and South Carolina, thousands of freed African Americans—now known as freedmen— began following his troops seeking food and shelter.
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The Freedmen’s BureauTo help the freed people feed themselves, Sherman reserved all abandoned plantation land within 30 miles of the coast from Charleston, South Carolina, to Jacksonville, Florida, for use by freed African Americans.
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The Freedmen’s Bureau
Union troops settled more than 40,000 African Americans on roughly half a million acres of land in South Carolina and Georgia.
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The Freedmen’s Bureau
The refugee crisis prompted Congress to establish the Freedmen’s Bureau.
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The Freedmen’s BureauThe Bureau worked to feed and cloth refugees in the South, using surplus army supplies. In September 1865, the Bureau issued nearly 30,000 rations a day for the next year, helping to prevent mass starvation.
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The Freedmen’s Bureau
The Bureau helped formerly enslaved people find work on plantations.
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The Freedmen’s BureauIt negotiated labor contracts with planters, specifying the amount of pay workers would receive and the number of hours they had to work.
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The Freedmen’s Bureau
It also established special courts to deal with grievances between workers and planters.
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The Freedmen’s BureauMany Northerners backed the Bureau, some argued that African Americans should be given “forty acres and a mule” to support themselves., confiscated from plantation owners.
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The Freedmen’s Bureau
Many opposed “forty acres and a mule” as anti American and Congress rejected it.
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The Freedmen’s Bureau
Most importantly, Northern Charites and the Bureau built schools and established teaching colleges for training African American teachers.
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The Freedmen’s Bureau
Most importantly, Northern Charites and the Bureau built schools and established teaching colleges for training African American teachers.
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• Next time• Congressional Reconstruction….
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• Checking for Understanding • 1. Define: Reconstruction, amnesty, pocket veto, freedmen.• 2. Identify: Thaddeus Stevens, Radical Republicans, Wade-Davis
Bill, Freedmen’s Bureau. • 3. Explain why the efforts to provide African Americans with
their own land failed.• Reviewing Themes• 4. Groups and Institutions What services did the Freedmen’s
Bureau provide to Southern refugees and to newly freed people?• Critical Thinking • 5. Analyzing What are the benefits of a compromise such as the
Wade-Davis Bill to a government? What are the drawbacks?• 6. How did Lincoln and the Radical Republicans differ on
reconstruction, which plan was best?
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