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PROMPT: “Humpty Dumpty”. Answer the following questions using your opinions. 1) What should the Union do with former Confederate leaders? 2) What should be done about the millions of newly freed African-Americans? - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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PROMPT: “Humpty Dumpty”Answer the following questions using your opinions.
1) What should the Union do with former Confederate leaders?
2) What should be done about the millions of newly freed African-Americans?
3) Look at your answers. Do you think your ideas would help or hurt efforts to reunite the country?
Reconstruction“All the King’s Horses and all the King’s Men….”
The South After the WarMost of the fighting was on Confederate soil.
Many families no longer had the manpower to rebuild.High Percentage of Confederate males now dead or disabled.
Everyone agrees the South must be rebuilt.
But HOW?!?!
Ten-Percent Plan (Lincoln-1863)10% of voters in a state must swear allegiance to the
Union
Amnesty to to all white southerners (except Confederate Leaders)
Educated or Enlisted African-Americans could vote
“However, he would not force Southern states to give rights held by white Americans to African Americans”
Thaddeus Stevens
Wade-Davis Bill - 1864
Majority of white males in a state must swear allegiance
Only non-Rebels could vote on new state Constitutions
No Confederates could hold office.States MUST abolish slavery
And then…
The New President
Andrew JohnsonOnly Southern Senator
to Support the UnionNot a fan of Southern
Slave HoldersActually a strong
advocate of State’s Rights
No real desire to help recently freed slaves
“Restoration”- Johnson’s Plan Most Southerners would be granted amnesty after swearing
allegiance. Confederate leads and wealthy landowners must apply for
pardon personally to the president. Appointed Southern governors and required new state
Constitutions to abolish slavery, denounce secession, and ratify the 13th Amendment
However, “White men alone must manage the South.” Johnson opposed enfranchising African Americans and
giving them equal rights.