12.3_Reconstruction - Reconstruction 1 Ending Slavery 2...

Reconstruction
1. Ending Slavery
2. Lincoln’s Plan
a. Loyalty oath by 10% of whites
b. Passage of 13
th
amendment
c. No provision for black voting
d. No discussion of redistribution of land
3. Johnson’s plan/ the Black Codes
a. Loyalty oath/disqualification of wealthy [pardons]
b. Ratification of 13
th
amendment
c. Readmission after new state conventions
d. New state conventions, old politicians [fall 1865]
e. ‘black codes’ replace slaves codes
f. Confederates reelected
g. December 1865: Congress refuses to seat new reps.
i. It seems like the south has not even been defeated, which leads to Congressional
Reconstruction
ii. Re-opens Freedman’s Bureau
iii. Congress debates changes in voting
4. The four houses of freedom: aspirations
5. “Radical” reconstruction