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Roland BurrisUnited States Senator, Illinois
January 2009 - November 2010
Barack ObamaUnited States Senator, Illinois
January 2005 - November 2008
Carol Moseley Braun
United States Senator, IllinoisJanuary 1993 – January 1999
Edward BrookeU.S. Senator, MassachusettsJanuary 1967 – January 1979
Racial Composition of US Senate
US Senators, 1789-2012
African-American (six)
Caucasian, Hispanic, or Asian (1,925)
Blanche BruceU.S. Senator, Mississippi
March 1875 – March 1881
Hiram R. RevelsU.S. Senator, Mississippi
February 1870 – March 1871
APRIL 9, 1865
APRIL 11, 1865
By these recent successes the re-inauguration of the national authority – reconstruction --which has had a large share of thought from the first, is pressed much more closely upon our attention.
It is fraught with great difficulty. Unlike a case of a war between independent nations, there is no authorized organ for us to treat with. No one man has authority to give up the rebellion for any other man.
We simply must begin with, and mould from, disorganized and discordant elements. Nor is it a small additional embarrassment that we, the loyal people, differ among ourselves as to the mode, manner, and means of reconstruction.
From Lincoln’s final public address
APRIL 14, 1865
APRIL 15, 1865
APRIL 15, 1865
What happens to the South?
Question 1: Land
Is South in abeyance?Abeyance: a state of
expectancy when the right to property is not vested in any one person, but awaits the appearance or determination of the true ownerShould plantations and farms in the South be return to their former owners?
Is the former Confederacy a conquered province?
Question 2: Repatriation
Are confederates traitors?
What rights do rebels maintain?
How should soldiers, suppliers, and supporter of the rebellion be punished, if at all?
By what process do people regain citizenship? Is it automatic?
How do states “rejoin” the union?
Question 3: Rebuilding
Who pays for material reconstruction?
Not much debate on territory: Union would pay for the rebuilding of railroads, cities
What about “property” lost due to 13th Amendment?
What cultural, economic, political changes will result?
Lincoln’s plan
Oath of allegiance = pardonSouthern states would write new constitutions
Abolition of slavery a requirement of reinstatementMany northerners thought Lincoln was too lenient
Who should make the rules: Congress or the president?
Johnson’s plan
Largely similar to Lincoln’s
Wanted restoration as much as true reconstructionMade it easy for South to be reinstated
No real punishment
Alexander Stevens, CSA VP, returns to the US Senate
Radical Republican planWanted revolution more than reconstruction
Advocated full civil and voting rights for all freedmenClaimed Confederate states had committed “political suicide”
Thought Congress should set conditions of reinstatement
Reconstruction Acts (1867)
Established military districts in all southern states except TennesseeTN had ratified 14th Amendment
Passed over presidential veto
Required congressional approval of all state constitutionsGave the vote to all freedmen