1. Redemption Plan Action in Texas
Congressional Reconstruction
Presidential Reconstruction
Plan
Action in Texas
• Abolish slavery • Declare secession illegal • Cancel war debts
• Require loyalty oath
• Did not ratify 13th Amendment
• Declared secession illegal
• Cancelled wartime debts
• Enforced loyalty oath • Enacted Black Codes • Elected Confederate leaders
• Rule southern states with army • Require new state constitutions • Give African Americans the vote
• Repeal the Black Codes
• Sent federal troops to Texas • Adopted Constitution of 1869 • Increased power of state government • Secured African American rights
• Put Republicans in control
• Remove Republicans from office
• Rewrite state Constitution
• Elected Richard Coke as governor
• Adopted Constitution of 1876
• Reduced power of state government

2. FIVE MILITARY DISTRICTS

3. AFRICAN AMERICAN LEGISLATORS

4. ANDREW JOHNSON CARTOON