1. Lincoln: 10% oath of loyalty
President’s Plan
Lincoln: 10% oath of loyalty
Lincoln : accept Emancipation Proclamation
Lincoln: Abolish slavery
Johnson: Abolish slavery
Johnson: Pardon Confederates
Johnson: Veto Freedmen’s Bureau
Johnson: Veto Civil Rights Act 1866
Congress’ Plan (Radical Republicans)
Punish the South!
Prevent Confederates in Politics
Help African Americans (Freedmen’s Bureau)
Wade-Davis Bill – Rejected by Lincoln
Place South under Military Rule
14th & 15th Amendments
Impeach President Johnson
Reconstruction
To Rebuild the
United States
African Americans
Gain: Slavery abolished (13th Amendment)
Gain: Freedmen’s Bureau
Gain: Civil Rights (14th Amendment)
Gain: Voting Rights (15th Amendment)
Gain: Educational & Political Opporutunities
Loss: Poll Tax, Literacy Test, Grandfather Cl.
Loss: Black Codes (Southern Laws)
Loss: Tenant Farmers
Loss: Sharecroppers
Failures of Reconstruction
1. South initiates Jim Crow Laws
2. Supreme Court makes decisions favoring South
3. Scandals in Grant Administration
4. Panic of 1873
5. Hayes strikes deal to end reconstruction
(Compromise of 1877)
6. Rise of KKK
Wade-Davis Bill – congress, not the president, responsible for reconstruction. Vetoed by Lincoln. When Johnson was on his way out of office, Congress took over Reconstruction –

2. RADICAL RECONSTRUCTION
More like √Reconstruction am I right?

3. Reconstruction: 1865-1877 Reconstruction: 1865-1877
How do we rebuild the US?
Andrew Johnson
Southern Democrat
Sympathized w/ South
Lenient Reconstruction plan
But, did make states ratify the 13th amendment

4. Congressional Reconstruction (aka, Radical Reconstruction) 1867-1877
Congress opposed Johnson
many called “Radical Republicans”
Radical: a person who advocates thorough or complete political or social reform
wanted extreme changes in society including:
punishing South for Civil War
giving Freedmen equal rights

5. Reconstructing a Nation
After 4 years of war and over 200 years of slavery, could Northerners and Southerners rebuild the South together?
Could they unify as citizens of the same country?
Image retrieved from
Photograph of a Union soldier camp taken between 1861 and 1865

6. African Americans in the South
How would freed men and women be treated in the Southern states?
How would Northerners address the issue of including former slaves as citizens in society?
Image retrieved from
Photograph of an enslaved family in South Carolina taken in 1862
What were some major challenges that former
slaves faced?

7. Central Historical Question
Why was the Radical Republican plan for Reconstruction considered “radical”?

8. Directions 1.) Individually read the 1st excerpt by Thaddeus Stevens, a Radical Republican. 2.) Answer questions from his excerpt. 3.) Do the same for Andrew Johnson’s speech. 4.) Write the paragraph from the directions on the back of the packet. **Start your paragraph with an analytical thesis statement. **Use a minimum of 3 pieces of evidence from the documents in your paragraph. **Do NOT use 1st or 2nd person (no I, you, we, us, etc)