1. EXPLAIN HOW THE CIVIL WAR AFFECTED SOUTHERN LIFE

2. EXPLAIN THE DIFFERENCES IN LINCOLN’S AND CONGRESS’ RECONSTRUCTION PLANS

3. DISCUSS JOHNSON’S PLAN FOR RECONSTRUCTION4. EXPLAIN HOW THE BLACK CODES WERE LIKE A

CONTINUATION OF SLAVERY

Ch 13.1Presidential Reconstruction

Bellringer

WHAT WERE THE ENDURING PROBLEMS CREATED BY THE CIVIL WAR?

Copy HW

Read p. 399-404 using the focus questions to take notes (textbook)

Questions What was Lincoln’s 10 Percent Plan? What were the consequences of the Civil War? What was the Emancipation Proclamation? What were 3 precedents set in the Washington

administration?

Intro

“With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives to us to see the right, let us strive on….to bind up the nation’s wounds…to do all which may achieve a just and lasting peace.”

What was Lincoln’s intent in this portion of his 2nd inaugural address?

How the Civil War Affected Southern Life

The Old South destroyed 4 million freedpeople

Loss of laborHoped for freedom + “40 Acres and a Mule”

infrastructure of the south destroyed

disease, hunger and poor sanitation

Cities, like Charleston, lay in ruins…

Lincoln’s plan for Reconstruction= Leniency

President should guide Reconstruction

Proclamation of Amnesty and Reconstruction(a.k.a. The 10% Plan)

amnesty to anyone who swearing allegiance to US Const. and Fed. Gov.

state could reenter the Union after 10% of residents who voted in 1860 swore allegiance to US

Congressional Reconstruction = Mistrust of Southern Whites

Opposed the 10% Plan Congress should guide ReconstructionWade- Davis Bill

Abolish Slavery Majority of each state’s white males take

loyalty oath

Vetoed by Lincoln

Johnson’s Plan for Reconstruction

Johnson opposed by Congress Former slave owner

from TN Openly racist

Johnson’s Plan blanket pardon for all rebels readmission required:

nullify secessionabolish slavery – 13th am.Refusal to pay Confederate debts

Allowed former Confederates to gain Congressional seats in the Elections of 1865

How Black Codes were Like an Extension of Slavery

New State Constitutions included laws that limited the rights of freedmen

Examples Could not:

Meet Own a gun Travel without permits

Labor contracts had to be signed