Chapter 16 Outline Part 1
Chapter 16 Outline part 1
The federal government in 1865 faced unprecedented questions: how could the Union be restored and the defeated south reintegrate into the nation? Would the Confederate states be treated as conquered territories? Who would set the standards for readmission- Congress or the president? Most important what would happen to the 3.5 million former slaves?
Reconstruction Politics (1865-1868)
National politics produced new constitutional amendments, a presidential impeachment, and some of the most ambitious domestic legislation ever enacted by Congress, The Reconstruction Act of 1867-1868.
In 1865, only a small group of politicians supported black suffrage. All were radical Republicans, led by Charles Sumner and Thaddeus Stevens. They helped pass the Reconstruction Act.
Lincoln’s Plan
In December 1863, Lincoln issued the Proclamation of Amnesty/Reconstruction, enabled southern states to rejoin Union if at least 10 % would take an oath of allegiance and accept emancipation.
Lincoln hoped to undermine the Confederacy by establishing pro-Union governments within it and build a southern Republican party.
Passed by Radical Republicans, The Wade-Davis Bill (1864) provided that a military governor would rule each former Confederate state; after at least half the eligible voters took an oath of allegiance to the Union, delegates could be elected to a state convention that would repeal secession and abolish slavery. Lincoln Pocket-Vetoed this bill, making many congressmen angry.
Nowhere in the U.S. was African-American suffrage a thing yet.
Presidential Reconstruction under Johnson
He was the only southern senator to remain in Congress when his state seceded, served as military governor of Tennessee from 1862 to 1864.
He was a lifelong Democrat who had been added to the Republican ticket in 1864 to broaden its appeal and who had become president by accident.
Against Republican desires in 1865, Johnson made a proclamation that brought back southern
The federal government in 1865 faced unprecedented questions: how could the Union be restored and the defeated south reintegrate into the nation? Would the Confederate states be treated as conquered territories? Who would set the standards for readmission- Congress or the president? Most important what would happen to the 3.5 million former slaves?
Reconstruction Politics (1865-1868)
National politics produced new constitutional amendments, a presidential impeachment, and some of the most ambitious domestic legislation ever enacted by Congress, The Reconstruction Act of 1867-1868.
In 1865, only a small group of politicians supported black suffrage. All were radical Republicans, led by Charles Sumner and Thaddeus Stevens. They helped pass the Reconstruction Act.
Lincoln’s Plan
In December 1863, Lincoln issued the Proclamation of Amnesty/Reconstruction, enabled southern states to rejoin Union if at least 10 % would take an oath of allegiance and accept emancipation.
Lincoln hoped to undermine the Confederacy by establishing pro-Union governments within it and build a southern Republican party.
Passed by Radical Republicans, The Wade-Davis Bill (1864) provided that a military governor would rule each former Confederate state; after at least half the eligible voters took an oath of allegiance to the Union, delegates could be elected to a state convention that would repeal secession and abolish slavery. Lincoln Pocket-Vetoed this bill, making many congressmen angry.
Nowhere in the U.S. was African-American suffrage a thing yet.
Presidential Reconstruction under Johnson
He was the only southern senator to remain in Congress when his state seceded, served as military governor of Tennessee from 1862 to 1864.
He was a lifelong Democrat who had been added to the Republican ticket in 1864 to broaden its appeal and who had become president by accident.
Against Republican desires in 1865, Johnson made a proclamation that brought back southern