1. Planning Reconstruction
Chapter 18 Section 1

2. Results of the Civil War
Casualties of the War
Union 340,000
CSA 210,000

3. Results of the Civil War
Slaves were freed

4. Results of the Civil War
Nation is more important than States
People start identifying themselves as American

5. Results of the Civil War
Federal Government grew in size and power

6. Results of the Civil War
Income tax created to pay for war

7. Results of the Civil War
State Universities were created
Land for Homesteads in West
Transcontinental Railroads

8. Results of the Civil War
Manufacturing and Industrial industries expanded during and after the war

9. Lincoln’s Ten Percent Plan
10% of population had to swear loyalty
can make new state government
Had to outlaw slavery
Then could rejoin Congress

10. Lincoln’s Ten Percent Plan
Amnesty
Pardon available to Confederates who pledged loyalty
Not available to government leaders and officers

11. Wade Davis Bill Congressional Reconstruction Lincoln opposed
Required 50% loyalty oaths
People who joined Confederate Army could not vote
Lincoln opposed
Wanted Republicans strong in South

12. Freedman’s Bureau
Set up to distribute food, clothes etc to freed slaves
Was responsible for giving land to freedman, but land was taken away

13. Responding to Freedom
Freedmen began to move, find families, return to where born, get control of life

14. African Methodist Episcopal (AME)
Created churches and schools
Adults and children try to learn to read to help gain economic freedom

15. John Wilkes Booth assassinated Lincoln at Fords theater in Washington DC

16. Booth was captured and killed
Lincoln died on April 15, 1865
First President to be assassinated

17. People who helped Booth escape were executed

18. Johnson becomes President
Andrew Johnson was Democrat from Tennessee
former slave owner
Johnson believed Reconstruction was President job, not Congress’