The Reconstruction Era took place after the Civil War from the years 1865- 1877. The Reconstruction Era brought on new challenges, questions, and the rebuilding of the South by the North. The purpose main purpose of Reconstruction was to put back the pieces back together after the civil war and unify the North and South. The reconstruction Era consisted of factors like black codes, Presidential Reconstruction, Radical Reconstruction, and Congressional Reconstruction. There were some problems that arose during the Reconstruction Era. These problems included economic issues, loss of slaves in the South, the destruction of property, debt, and large numbers of lost population for both the North and South. Political views became more relevant
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The first part of this proclamation was the ten percent loyalty oath. When a minimum of ten percent of the qualified voters took a loyalty oath to the Union they could then organize a state government. The next part of Lincoln’s Plan was that the new constitution for the new state government had to abolish slavery and provide education for the blacks. Lincoln did not insist that the high ranked Confederate leaders banded from public life. Lincoln also indicated that he would be generous in granting pardons to Confederate leaders and would compensate people for their slave property. Lincoln’s Plan was not a popular strategy with the Radicals, they believed he was too lenient, so they created a stricter proposal which was named the Wade-Davis Bill. This bill required fifty percent of a state’s white adult males to take an ironclad oath of allegiance before fashioning a new state constitution, this bill also restricted power to hard core unionists. Lincoln vetoed this bill, and stopped it from becoming a law. The first couple parts of Lincoln’s Plan were quite strong, beneficial points like providing freedom and education for the blacks, but the plan as a whole contained many weaknesses. For example, Lincoln’s Proclamation of Amnesty and Reconstruction did not help unify the North and the South, and Congress strongly opposed Lincoln’s plan. With Congress opposing Lincoln’s Plan, the plan was not quite effective as it could be. However, Lincoln’s assassination was the main reason the plan did not live up to its full effectiveness. Another approach taken during Reconstruction consisted of Johnson’s Plan. At first Johnson won the Radicals over with by publicly attacking and breaking up the planter aristocracy and insisting that the Confederates be punished and
The first part of this proclamation was the ten percent loyalty oath. When a minimum of ten percent of the qualified voters took a loyalty oath to the Union they could then organize a state government. The next part of Lincoln’s Plan was that the new constitution for the new state government had to abolish slavery and provide education for the blacks. Lincoln did not insist that the high ranked Confederate leaders banded from public life. Lincoln also indicated that he would be generous in granting pardons to Confederate leaders and would compensate people for their slave property. Lincoln’s Plan was not a popular strategy with the Radicals, they believed he was too lenient, so they created a stricter proposal which was named the Wade-Davis Bill. This bill required fifty percent of a state’s white adult males to take an ironclad oath of allegiance before fashioning a new state constitution, this bill also restricted power to hard core unionists. Lincoln vetoed this bill, and stopped it from becoming a law. The first couple parts of Lincoln’s Plan were quite strong, beneficial points like providing freedom and education for the blacks, but the plan as a whole contained many weaknesses. For example, Lincoln’s Proclamation of Amnesty and Reconstruction did not help unify the North and the South, and Congress strongly opposed Lincoln’s plan. With Congress opposing Lincoln’s Plan, the plan was not quite effective as it could be. However, Lincoln’s assassination was the main reason the plan did not live up to its full effectiveness. Another approach taken during Reconstruction consisted of Johnson’s Plan. At first Johnson won the Radicals over with by publicly attacking and breaking up the planter aristocracy and insisting that the Confederates be punished and