Reconstruction

I. Reconstruction:
Jourdon Anderson

II. Political Reconstruction:
A. LINCOLN’S PLAN FOR RECONSTRUCTION


B. CONGRESSIONAL RECONSTRUCTION
Both Radicals and Moderates had plans:

1. RADICALS:

Thaddeus Stevens & Charles Sumner

“The foundations of their institutions
must be broken up and re-laid, or all our blood and treasure will have been spent in vain.” (Stevens)

“40 Acres and a Mule”

Was redistribution of land a real option?
Was redistribution of land a good option?


2. MODERATES:
Wade-Davis Bill (“ironclad oath”)
--passed Congress at end of 1864:
--sent to the President and…

C. JOHNSON'S RESTORATION
1. Freedmen's Bureau
2. Black Codes

D. RADICALS STRIKE BACK
1. First Civil Rights Bill (1866)
2. 14th Amendment (1867)
3. First Reconstruction Acts (1867)
4. Tenure of Office Act
5. Fifteenth Amendment

E. The Compromise of 1877
Hayes versus Tilden

III. Why does Reconstruction Matter?

Frederick Douglass (1865):
"Slavery is not abolished until the black man has the ballot."