Ten Percent Plan: Lincoln’s idea. If 10% of the population of the confederate state would take an oath, they could be readmitted back into the union. Lincoln was radical.
Andrew Johnson and Reconstruction plans: wanted to let the southern states rebuild themselves, if they would take an oath of allegiance would be readmitted (not high ranked), restitution of property—did not include slaves. Hand pick governors and create their own governments. They had to revoke the secession ordinance, abolish slavery, and repay some of the war debts. However, the Radical Republicans were against this. South was democratic.
Black Codes: any kind of codes used to discriminate against blacks. Beginning of segregation, doesn’t specify race or whatever—grandfather clause.
Freedmen’s Bureau: 5o acres and a mule. ???
Wade-Davis Bill: radical’s view. Republicans being very angry at Johnson’s ideas. ???
Resistance of wage labor: against the blacks. The point when the blacks were trying to get jobs, paid less or discriminated or didn’t have wage. Went around to a lot of diff. places, subsistence farmers.
Thirteenth Amendment
Fourteenth Amendment Blacks were citizens
Fifteenth Amendment gave black citizens the right to vote. = treatment under the law.
Radical Republicans Reconstruction was about rebuilding society—totalitarian society. 5 diff. military districts. SC the last state to be released from this.
Radical Reconstruction
Johnson’s impeachment not really removed from office. Impeached because he ????
Election of 1868: Grant. Grant was a war hero?? Run for office and most likely win.
Women’s suffrage : homestead act. Women that moved out west were more independent with the farms, were widows b/c their husbands died. More independent women in the west.
Carpetbaggers and scalawags: Carpetbaggers: entreps from the north. Sc: southerners who believe in northern stuff. A lot of free open land, start businesses Go down