Reconstruction Powerpoint-Three Plans

1. 8-18-14
Reconstruction
pps. 192-194
Essential Question (copy the question
on the purple paper)
How could the Confederate States be
brought back into the Union?

2. Reconstruction
• Period during which the U.S. began to rebuild
after the Civil War
• Process the Federal government used to
readmit the defeated Confederate States to
the Union

3. Three Plans for Reconstruction
• Abraham Lincoln’s Plan (lenient)
– 10% Plan
• Pardon all Confederates except high-ranking officials
and those accused of crimes against P.O.W.
• Swear allegiance to the Union
• 10% took oath to form new government

4. Andrew Johnson
• Break planter’s power
• Exclude high ranking Confederates and
wealthy Southern landowners from taking the
oath
• Pardoned 13,000 former Confederates

5. Radical Republicans (Congressional
Reconstruction)
Shift Reconstruction from President to Congress
Didn’t recognize state governments formed
under Lincoln or Johnson
Divided former Confederate States into 5
military districts
Required to grant African American men the
right to vote and to ratify the 14th Amendment
in order to reenter the Union