years of age. You also need to have lived in the United States for at least 14 years. As the President of the United States you get Pay and benefits the congress determins the President’s salary. It can neither be increased or decreased during a presidential term. The President’s pay was first set at $25‚000 year in‚ 1789. Now its up to $400‚000 a year. The President also gets provided with a expense allowance of $50‚000 a year. The President is chief of state which means he is the ceremonial head
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Univ US History Plans for Reconstruction Johnson’s Plan for Reconstruction had some of Lincoln’s key concepts in it but the plan also differed from Lincoln’s greatly. The looming showdown between Lincoln and the Congress over competing reconstruction plans never occurred. The president was assassinated on April 14‚ 1865. His successor‚ Andrew Johnson of Tennessee‚ lacked his predecessor’s skills in handling people; those skills would be badly missed. Johnson’s plan envisioned Pardons that would
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Throughout the (last) week‚ we were assigned a congressional simulation. When we started the project‚ I had no clue what was going to happen. I understood the steps and roles in government‚ but I wasn’t sure how it was all going to play out with teenagers. The first day‚ we were to write a letter to your Congressmen and Senators telling them what you want out of this piece of legislation. Such as specific wants‚ needs‚ or desires for the party. I was pretty basic on what I wanted‚ some chips and
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Reconstruction was the era directly after the civil war‚ in which the US began the rebuilding process. Overall‚ I believe this time in United States history was more of success rather than failure. Most importantly the union was restored‚ and that was the main objective. The success of this time era to me over weighed its negatives. First off‚ the reunification of the Union was key because this separation lasted four years. Restoration‚ Lincoln’s driving force to put America back together was
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“various underhanded schemes [such as] literacy tests‚ unfairly administered by whites to the advantages of illiterate whites” (p. 496). Moreover‚ though the Supreme Court was left untouched during Reconstruction‚ when southern delegates were sent to take their seats in congress “on the first day of the congressional session‚ December 4‚ 1865‚ they banged shut Republicans banged shut the door in the face of the newly elected Southern delegations” (p. 488) in fear of losing their advantage in congress. Thus
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he vast majority of those who had been disqualified… After the passage of this act only a few hundred ex-Confederates remained unpardoned. How did the restoration of voting rights to white Southerners undermine efforts to preserve and protect the voting rights of the freedmen? ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
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1. There were four different plans for Reconstruction‚ but all had different approaches on how to recontruct the South. Abraham Lincoln’s plan was very lenient‚ and pardoned all Confederates who swore allegiance to the Union‚ except for high ranking officials. When 10% of the voters of a state took an oath of loyalty to the Union‚ the state would be readmitted into the Union. Andrew Jackson’s plan was similar to Lincoln’s plan‚ except it excluded high-ranking Confederates and wealthy Southern landowners
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was the future status of the four million newly freed slaves. After the death of President Lincoln and the failure of President Johnson‚ Congress‚ in 1867‚ took charge of the effort to “reconstruct” our divided nation. A large part of “Congressional Reconstruction” was an effort to establish and protect the citizenship rights of the freedmen. The former Confederacy was divided into five military districts‚ each governed by a Union general. The Southern states‚ in order to rid themselves of these
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Lincoln‚ the president of the U.S at the time came up with the plan to re-build the country after the war. He called it Reconstruction Plan. The Reconstruction Plan was put to use right after the war in 1865 and ended in 1877. Within the Reconstruction Plan‚ Lincoln offered a model for reinstatement of Southern states called the 10 percent Reconstruction plan. And also‚ during reconstruction period‚ we witnessed the emerged of Black Code which created the Fourteen and Fifteen Amendments and followed up
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“Review of Reconstruction Revisited” In “Reconstruction Revisited”‚ Eric Foner reexamines the political‚ social‚ and economic experiences of black and white Americans in the aftermath of the Civil War. With the help of many historian works‚ Foner gives equal representation to both sides of the Reconstruction argument. Foner writes that nowhere‚ was the transfer in black life more profound than in politics. The amazing political mobilization of the black community was one of the most striking
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