Reconstruction Plans

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Any southerner with over $20,000 of property had to apply directly to the President for a pardon.

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Johnson's Reconstruction Plan

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Each state had to ratify the 13th Amendment before being re-admitted to the Union.

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Johnson's Reconstruction Plan

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Established 5 military districts in the South.

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Congressional Reconstruction Plan

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Established the Freedmen's Bureau.

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Congressional Reconstruction Plan

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Wanted Reconstruction to be a fast process that did not severely punish the South.

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Lincoln's Reconstruction Plan

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Each Southern state had to nullify secession or say that the act had been illegal before re-entering the Union.

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Johnson's Reconstruction Plan

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Each Southern state had to ratify the 14th Amendment and create a new state constitution.

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Congressional Reconstruction Plan

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Created the Reconstruction Acts in response to the development of the KKK in the South.

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Congressional Reconstruction Plan

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Radical Republicans did not like this plan because they felt that it was not hard enough on the South and that it did not do enough to protect the rights of newly freed African Americans.

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Johnson's Reconstruction Plan

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Required that 10% of a Southern state's population swear an oath to the U.S. before that state could be re-admitted to the Union.

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Lincoln's Reconstruction Plan