Reconstruction Era Challenges and Plans

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Economic problems -- soldiers needed jobs. War orders were canceled and factories were laying off workers. Political Problems -- disagreed about how to bring the South back into the Union. Which region does this refer to?

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North

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Houses, barns and bridges had been destroyed in many areas. Railroad tracks had been destroyed by Sherman. Atlanta and Richmond were destroyed. A new class emerges in society -- freedmen -- men and women who had been enslaved. Which region is being described?

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South

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Southern states could form a new government after 10 percent of its voters took an oath of loyalty to the United States and the new government needed to abolish slavery. They could then elect members to Congress and take part in the national government. He also offered amnesty, government pardon, to Confederates who swore loyalty to the Union, but not to Confederate government officials.

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Lincoln’s Ten Percent Plan

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What required a majority of white men to swear loyalty to the Union and denied the right to vote or hold office to anyone who had fought for the Confederacy? Lincoln felt this was too harsh.

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Wade-Davis Bill

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the rebuilding of the South after the Civil War

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Reconstruction

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A government agency that would help former slaves. It gave food and clothing to the former slaves. It tried to find them jobs and helped to open schools for them.

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Freedman’s Bureau

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A majority of voters in each state had to pledge loyalty to the Union. States had to ratify the 13th Amendment which banned slavery in the nation.

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Johnson’s Reconstruction Plan

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 gave the freedmen the right to vote, but was vetoed by Johnson.

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Civil Rights Act of 1866

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They were created to keep freedmen from gaining political or economic power. Republicans felt that Johnson placed too few restrictions on the South and it encouraged them to pass the codes.

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black code

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____and ____ led the Radical Republicans. They wanted to break the power of the wealthy planters and to give the freedmen the right to vote. They used legislative reforms --

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Thaddeus Stevens, Charles Sumner