The document summarizes Reconstruction after the Civil War and the different approaches taken by Abraham Lincoln, Congress, Andrew Johnson, and Radical Republicans. Lincoln wanted the Southern states readmitted peacefully and established the lenient Ten Percent Plan. Republicans in Congress wanted a stricter approach outlined in the Wade-Davis Bill. As President, Johnson took a more lenient approach similar to Lincoln's. Radical Republicans advocated for the strict Reconstruction Acts passed by Congress in 1867-1868 requiring Southern states to make changes before readmission.

1. Post 1865: Effects of the War

2. Vocabulary
Reconstruction - The period following the Civil War in which Congress passed laws designed to rebuild the country and bring the Southern states back into
the Union.
Ten-Percent Plan - Specified that a southern state could be readmitted into the Union once 10 percent of its voters (from the voter rolls for the election of
1860) swore an oath of allegiance to the Union.
Wade-Davis Bill - Unsuccessful attempt by Radical Republicans and others in the U.S. Congress to set Reconstruction policy before the end of the Civil War.
The bill, sponsored by senators Benjamin F. Wade and Henry W. Davis, provided for the appointment of provisional military governors in the seceded states.
Johnson Plan – Majority of white men from the south must prove loyalty to the union, Former confederate states must ratify the 13th amendment, former
confederate officials can serve office.
Reconstruction Act - the acts of Congress during the period from 1865 to 1877 providing for the reorganization of the former Confederate states and setting
forth the process by which they were to be restored to representation in Congress, especially the acts passed in 1867 and 1868.

3. President
Abraham
Lincoln
• Lincoln wanted the country to come back
together peacefully.
• Lincoln’s plan was created in 1863, about two
years before the end of the war.
• At the time of his death, the war was just ending
and he was not able to put his ideas into
practice.
The Ten Percent Plan
• 10% of voters in the seceded states must swear
loyalty under oath to the Union.
• The seceded states must abolish slavery.

4. Republicans in
Congress
• Wanted to be more strict with the States that had rebelled.
• Wanted a State to re-enter through a slower admission
process.
Wade-Davis Bill
• The majority of white men from formerly Confederate
states must swear loyalty to the United States.
• The seceded states must abolish slavery.
• Former Confederate soldiers or volunteers cannot hold
office or vote.

5. President
Andrew
Johnson

6. Radical
Republicans
• Radical republicans, often abolitionists,
represented a large part of Congress.
• These Congressmen wanted to be strict with the
States that had rebelled.
Reconstruction Act
• Formerly Confederate states must disband their
state governments.
• Formerly Confederate states must write new
state constitutions.
• Formerly Confederate states must ratify the 14th
Amendment
• Formerly Confederate states must allow African
Americans to vote

7. Reconstruction
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