Therefore, he proposed a plan that allowed the states to reenter the Union as long as 10% of the people who had voted in the 1860 election swore an oath of allegiance to the US. After Lincoln died, President Andrew Johnson implemented a very similar plan. However, the Radical Republicans were not satisfied. They were particularly angry because the South instituted the “black codes” that treated the freed slaves harshly.…
In May of 1865 President Johnson Declared his proclamation of Amnesty. Returning rebellious Southerners to their property. Some people were excluded including certain political leadership, military officers or a person whose taxable worth is more than 20,000. Johnson was a Democrat and a former slave owner which bothered the republicans. The Radical Republican plan for reconstruction looked to overturn the southern society and ending the plantation system.…
Reconstruction Plan On may 9,1865, soldiers began packing up and going back home, from the bloodiest war in American history, however when some confederate soldiers came back to the south they were surprised to find that their home had been completely destroyed and in ruins. To fix the south we need to abolish slavery and any form or type of slave labor, build schools in the south that are not separated, and shutdown prejudice groups like the ‘KKK’. This is a very important matter because the south needs help on improving its economy and improving itself in general. If we want to make any sort of progression, the first precaution we have to take is abolishing slavery and any form or type of slave labor.…
1. Briefly explain how Abraham Lincoln, Andrew Johnson, and the Radical Republicans envisioned Reconstruction. Be sure to share how each planned to deal with the question of citizenship for former Confederates and newly freed slaves. Abraham Lincoln- Lincoln’s plan was to reunify the north and south as soon as possible after the end of the civil war.…
What is the 10% plan? Lincolns master planes for the reconstruction of the south, included the 10% plan. This plan clearly states that a southern state could be rejoined into the union again once 10% of its voters swore it over of allegiance to the union. 4. What views did pres.…
They could then set up new governments after only ten percent of voters swore allegiance to the United State. He also planned to grant amnesty to all except for the highest ranking Confederate officials. Lincoln was able to succeed in abolishing slavery and creating the Freedman's Bureau, however, disagreement with Congressmen and ultimately his assassination did not allow him to see through his plan of bringing the nation back together as he had wished.…
Congress and president Johnson were constantly at odds. When President Abraham Lincoln was assassinated, some of the Republican radicals were hopeful that the new president, Johnson, would have a harsher view against the South, and not re-admit the states so easily as Lincoln would have, with his 10 percent plans. Johnson tricked them into believing that he would do just that and reconstruct the South with a rod of iron. Those were not his real intentions, however, and he quickly began implementing many of Lincoln's 10 percent plans, in hopes of re-admitting the South without much change whatsoever. Congress, and the Republican radicals were infuriated.…
After the North’s victory in the Civil War, and peace was made between the two sides, the nation faced the question of what to do next. They needed to figure out how to redistribute the land in the South, and how to rebuild it. The nation had to find a solution for what to do with former Confederate offices, the representation of the South in Congress and most importantly: what to do with the freed slaves and how to reorganize the government. It was during this time of reconstruction that many of these questions were answered, and while some progress was made, many major areas that needed to be improved and addressed were not. There were amendments made to the constitution, and acts were passed to give black people the rights they deserve, but they were not always followed through.…
President Abraham Lincoln believed it was the job of the president to take control and impose his authority in order to reunite the nation and preserve the union, and he regarded every measure needed to achieve that as lawful1. Thus said, he devised a plan for Reconstruction that would help get the South readmitted into the union as soon as possible. It was called the Ten Percent plan because it only required ten percent of the voters in each state to take an oath of loyalty to the union in order to establish state governments. Louisiana, Arkansas, and Tennessee reestablished state governments in accordance to the Ten Percent Plan in 1864.…
In March, 1868, Congress tried to remove President Andrew Johnson from office. At that time, Congress was controlled by radical members of the Republican Party. They opposed Johnson, a Democrat Congress failed to remove Johnson. But it did succeed in getting control of efforts to rebuild the South following America's Civil War. Radical Republicans wanted to punish the South for starting the war.…
Lincoln’s 10% plan, in which the Union would readmit Southern states if 10% of voters swore an oath of allegiance, was too lenient. He offered all southerners amnesty, focusing on rebuilding the Union instead of punishing the South. While Johnson’s plan also incorporated the 10% plan, it was harsher than Lincoln’s plan since he forced southerners with property valuing more than $20,000 to appeal to the president for a pardon, which could limit…
Poverty struck the South bad because many white southerns lost their land and the blacks were newly freed, but there was little jobs offered to African Americans. The industrialization in the South was too slow and sharecropping and tenant farming brought more complications because it was unfair to the laborers on the land. Corruption of taxes because little percent would be used to help and the rest would go in the government’s pockets. Taxes were raised in order to rebuild the South and Jim Crow Laws which supported discrimination and racial…
When Lincoln was inaugurated for a second term he put the 10% plan into use. This plan allowed the south to come back into the union if 10% of its voters pledged an oath of allegiance back into the union. Soon after this plan was put into use, Lincoln is assassinated and President Johnson is sworn into office. He ultimately favored Lincoln’s 10% plan and freely let the south back into the economy. All the African Americans wanted was to have freedom and get paid for the work they did.…
He, in opposition to Radical Republicans, agreed with Lincoln’s Ten-Percent Plan and pushed it forward. Johnson’s goal for Reconstruction was to see a speedy restoration of the states, believing that they had never truly left the Union, and thus should again be recognized as loyal citizens to the United States. To Johnson, African-American suffrage was a distraction, and it should be a state’s responsibility to decide who should vote. Johnson, pushing these policies through the government, gave favor to the South. This gave them an easy way back into the Union.…
New political forces in the South gave way for new changes. During reconstruction, African Americans made huge political gains. They voted in large numbers and were also elected to political office. African Americans were elected as sheriffs, mayors, legislators, Congressmen, and Senators. Even thought their participation was significant, it was exaggerated by white southerners angry at the Black Republicans governments.…