Lincoln's Reconstruction Plan

Reconstruction was known as a bloody time period in American history from 1865 to 1877. Many people lost their life over the matter of slavery. Many states seceded from the United States to form the Confederate States when Abraham became president. During the split of the United states, Republican had the upper hand and took the South out of electorate because they left the Union. Abraham Lincoln wanted to preserve the Union after his election in 1860. The period after the Civil War was known as Reconstruction. After the Civil War towns, plantations, bridges and railroad were all destroyed in the South. Slavery was abolished by the Emancipation Proclamation and the Thirteenth Amendment by December 1865. White Southern and freed slaves faced …show more content…
Both Radical Republican and Conservatives supported former slaves on Africans American Rights. December 1863, Lincoln announced his Reconstruction plan known as Lincoln’s 10% Plan. This plan allowed Southern state to join back to the United States, when ten-percent of the 1860 vote from the state had taken an oath of allegiance to the United States and pledged to follow the Emancipation. Radical Republicans feel that Lincoln’s plan was to lean on the Southern states. Therefore, lead Congress to pass the Wade-Davis Bill in July 1864, the bill allow the the president to appoint a provisional governor for states that have rejoin the United States, but was more in depth and consequences than Lincoln’s ten-percent Plan. The Wade-Davis Bill did not last long it was quickly vetoed by Lincoln. Lincoln was not liked by most White Southerners because of the Emancipation. While watching a play at the Ford’s Theater in Washington April 14, 1865, Lincoln was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth. Booth was an advocate of the Southern cause. Lincoln’s vice president Andrew Johnson filled in as the seventeenth president of the United States after his death. Johnson’s plan for Reconstruction was similar to Wade-Davis Bill. In order for States that had seceded to rejoin the United States, they had to put an order out to end secession, abolish slavery, ratify the Thirteenth Amendment, and cannot be …show more content…
Congress could put out a bill even if the president does not agree to it. Making it harder for the other states that seceded to be readmitted into the United States. Congress did not use the Lincoln-Johnson plan for the ten remaining Confederate States to be readmitted into the United States. Three Reconstruction Bills was passed in 1867 by Congress; all the bill were passed even with President Johnson 's vetoes. Congress combined the ten Confederate state into five military district with a military leader running each district, registering all African Americans male adult and white male that were not involved in the secession. The registered voter prepared to elect ways for a new state constitutions that had to be approved by Congress. Which had to include providing black suffrage and the ratification of the Fourteenth Amendment. In 1870 the ratification of the Fifteenth Amendment, which forbade the states and the federal government to deny suffrage to any citizen on account of “race, color, or previous condition of servitude,” was required for Confederate state to rejoin the United States. Radicals feared the president would interfere with their plan, Congress passed two laws in 1867. The Tenure of Office Act prohibit the president to civil officials, including members of his own cabinets, without consent from the Senate