Important Notes:
- Lincoln’s Plan : 10 Percent Plan
Lincoln’s plan excluded: Some southerners from taking the oath. Confederate government officials, military officers, and those who had resigned from Congress would be excluded. Also excluded were blacks, who had not been voters in 1860.
- Wade-Davis Plan:
The plan stated: At least half the eligible would have to take an oath of allegiance to the Union. After, delegates could be elected to a state convention that would repeal secession and abolish slavery.
To qualify as a voter or delegate: a southerner would have to take an oath of allegiance, swearing he had never voluntarily supported the Confederacy or black suffrage.
Lincoln pocket-vetoed the Wade-Davis bill.
- Reconstruction acts - 1867:
- Congress overrode two presidential vetoes from Johnson to pass these bills.
Republicans passed the Second Reconstruction Act: placing Union troops in charge of voter registration.
- Fourteenth Amendment:
What it means: No state can make or enforce any law which "deprives any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law. It also states a person could not "deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws."
- Conquered territory theory:
- A theory: held by many Reconstruction policy makers that the southern states which seceded from the Union to form the Confederate States of America should be treated as if they were territories conquered from a foreign nation.
- Texas v. White - 1869:
- The unreconstructed South:
- Scalawag:
- Carpetbaggers:
- "Forty Acres and A Mule":
- Black Codes:
- Ku Klux Klan (KKK):
What was it? It was founded in the South in 1866 in opposition to Reconstruction. Members used disguises, rituals, whippings and lynchings, to terrorize African-Americans and their supporters. Forrest disbanded the Klan in 1869.
- Thaddeus Stevens:
- Charles Sumner:
- Andrew Johnson:
- Freedmen’s Bureau:
- General Oliver O. Howard:
- Civil Rights Act:
- Thirteenth Amendment:
- Fifteenth Amendment:
- Tenure of Office Act:
- Impeachment:
President Andrew Johnson, after violating the Tenure of Office Act, by removing Secretary of War Stanton faced impeachment. The formal accusation of Johnson went through the House on Feb. 24, 1868, but the Senate did not remove him.
- Compromise of 1877: