Reconstruction
Amnesty
President Lincoln's Proclamation of Amnesty and Reconstruction called for a general amnesty, or pardon, to all Southerners who took an oath of loyalty to the United States and accepted the Union's proclamations concerning slavery. after ten percent of the state's voters in e 1860 election had taken the oath, the state could organize a new state government.
Radical Republicans
The Radical Republicans had four main goals they wanted to prevent the Confederate leaders from returning to power after the war. They wanted the Republican Party to become powerful in the South. They wanted the federal government to help African Americans achieve political equality by guaranteeing them the right to vote in the south. They also wanted the South to pay for the war.
Wade-Davis Bill
Moderate Republicans thought Lincoln's plan was too tenient on the South and the Radical Republicans's was too harsh. By the summer of 1864, the moderates and the radicals came up with a plan that they both could support, the Wade-Davis Bill. Lincoln thought that this bill was too harsh, so he blocked the bill with a pocket vet
Freedman's Bureau
Freed African Americans, known as freedmen marched hrouh Georgia and South Carolina. To help them get food, Sherman se em up on a plantaion along he South Carolina coast. As a reslt of the refugee crisis, Congress establishe the Freedman's Bureau. of The Bureau was to feed and cloh war refugees in the Souh using army surplus supplies. It also provided schools, paid teachers, and helped establih colleges for training African American teachers.
Andrew Johnson's Proclamation of Amnesty
Vice President Andrew Johnson became president after Lincoln was assassinated. In May of 1865, Andrew Johnson issued a new Proclamation of Amnesty. This plan offered to pardon all former citizens of the Confederacy who took an oath of loyalty to the Union and to return to their property. Excluded from the plan were all stormer Confederate officers Nd officials and all former Confederates who owned property worth more than $20,000.
Black Codes
Johnson's plants restore the South to the Union included having each former Confederate state call a constitutional convention to repeal its order to secede and to ratify the Thirteenth Amendment, abolishing slavery. The new southern state legislatures passed laws, known as the black codes, that severely limited African Americans rights in the south. The codes varied from state to state, but in general, they were written with the intention of keeping African Americans in conditions similar to slavery.
Civil Right of Act of 1866
in late 1865, House of Senate Republicans created a joint committee on Reconstruction to develop their own program for rebuilding the Union. In March 1866, Congress passed the Civil Rights Act of 1866. The aact gave citizenship to all persons born in the United States, except Nagive Americans.