1. Prepare to Quiz Grade Clear off desk, Grab a colored pencil

2. Rebuilding the Union and the South

3. What to do with the South? The South now lays prostrate in front of the Union How do you bring them back into the country?

4. Lincoln’s Plan Presidential Reconstruction 1863-1866 Bring South quickly back into the Union, not Punish Destroy Slavery Lincoln’s Second Inaugural Speech “With Malice Towards None and Charity Towards All” Also supported by Andrew Johnson

5. The 10% Plan States would be readmitted when 10 percent of the state swore allegiance to the Constitution Very Moderate

6. Radical Reconstruction 1866-1873 Congressional Reconstruction “Radical” Republicans take control of Congress Impeach Andrew Johnson for political reasons Make the Republican Party powerful in the South Passes Reconstruction Amendments 13, 14, 15 End Slavery 1865 African Americans are Citizens 1868 Cannot Deny vote based on Color or Race 1870 Wanted to Punish South

7. April 1865

8. April 14, 1865 5 Days after Surrender at Appomattox Court House In the evening, Lincoln was to attend a play at Ford’s Theatre Our American Cousin

9. The Plot John Wilkes Booth and others were to assassinate leaders of the federal government VP Andrew Johnson and Sec of State William Seward were also targeted

10. The Assassination Take out your Eyewitness to History Primary Source Packet We will read aloud “The Death of President Lincoln”

14. Outcome of the Assassination Lincoln is 1 st President Assassinated Changes upcoming Reconstruction