PROMPT: “Humpty Dumpty”

Answer the following questions using your opinions.

1) What should the Union do with former Confederate leaders?

2) What should be done about the millions of newly freed African-Americans?

3) Look at your answers. Do you think your ideas would help or hurt efforts to reunite the country?

Reconstruction“All the King’s Horses and all the King’s Men….”

The South After the WarMost of the fighting was on Confederate soil.

Many families no longer had the manpower to rebuild.High Percentage of Confederate males now dead or disabled.

Everyone agrees the South must be rebuilt.

But HOW?!?!

Ten-Percent Plan (Lincoln-1863)10% of voters in a state must swear allegiance to the

Union

Amnesty to to all white southerners (except Confederate Leaders)

Educated or Enlisted African-Americans could vote

“However, he would not force Southern states to give rights held by white Americans to African Americans”

Thaddeus Stevens

Wade-Davis Bill - 1864

Majority of white males in a state must swear allegiance

Only non-Rebels could vote on new state Constitutions

No Confederates could hold office.States MUST abolish slavery

And then…

The New President

Andrew JohnsonOnly Southern Senator

to Support the UnionNot a fan of Southern

Slave HoldersActually a strong

advocate of State’s Rights

No real desire to help recently freed slaves

“Restoration”- Johnson’s Plan Most Southerners would be granted amnesty after swearing

allegiance. Confederate leads and wealthy landowners must apply for

pardon personally to the president. Appointed Southern governors and required new state

Constitutions to abolish slavery, denounce secession, and ratify the 13th Amendment

However, “White men alone must manage the South.” Johnson opposed enfranchising African Americans and

giving them equal rights.