Another Brick in the Wall

Lincoln’s Plan
 Preserve Union

 Forgiving Peace
-”With malice toward none, with
charity for all.”
-Amnesty Proclamation
- 10% voters to restore statehood

 Lincoln’s Assassination
-Ford’s Theater
-John Wilkes Booth
 Radical Plan
 Radical Republicans
 Thaddeus Stevens
 Charles Sumner

 Wade-Davis Bill

 “Ironclad Oath”
 Radical Reconstruction Act
1867
 Martial Law
 Bans former Confederates
 Reconstruction
Amendments
 13th Amendment
 Officially abolished and
continues to prohibit slavery

 14th Amendment
 Defines citizenship and
protects a person's civil and
political rights from being
abridged or denied by any
state

 15th Amendment
 Prohibits government from
denying a citizen the right to
vote based on that citizen's
“race, color, or previous
condition of servitude"
 The South
 Tenant Farming
 Sharecropping
 Freedman’s Bureau
 Education
 Schools

 Carpetbaggers

 Scalawags
 Andrew Johnson
 President after Lincoln
Assassintation
 Repeated clashes with
Radicals
 Southern Loyalty?
 Tenure of Office Act
 Impeached, but
acquitted.
Which would you choose?