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Lincoln’s plan fails b/c of congress

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  • When 3 southern states (Tennessee, Arkansas, and Louisiana) ready to rejoin:
  • other southern states are mad,
  • when the 3 states go to Washington congress refuses to let them in, refuses to work with them to come up with a plan
  • Lincoln angry war continues
  • congress comes up with its own plan
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Lincoln’s plan

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Ten percent plan: created in 1863- Gettysburg: only major war in north, Vicksburg: control of Mississippi

  • Forgiveness, reunion of north and south
  • Strategy: in each confederate state 10% of voters from 1860 must pledge loyalty to the US
  • After this pledge: states will have conventions to set up new state govt.
  • Lincoln is trying to mKe it easy for the south to rejoin
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Congress’s plan

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  • radical republicans: extreme republicans
  • punish south; keep democrats out of power
  • wade-Davis bill (1864): 51% of voters from 1860 election in each southern state must pledge loyalty to US
  • makes it harder for southern states to rejoin
  • anyone who participate in confederacy could not be apart of new govt.
  • only free slaves were not apart of confederacy
  • govt made up of free slaves and women
  • southern supporters huge numbers
  • each new state had to abolish slavery
  • if congress approves states may rejoin
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Johnson’s plan

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  • Lincoln gets assassinated in 1865
  • Vice President Andrew Johnson takes over
  • majority of 1860 voters must pledge loyalty to the US in each confederate state: congress happy south mad
  • confederate leaders and wealthy people must apply for special pardons from president south happy congress mad
  • states must repeal acts of secession south mad congress happy
  • states must abolish slavery south mad congress happy
    New states could send members to congress
    If you followed all the steps u r welcomed back
    Johnson’s plan never pleased everybody
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Radical republicans & republicans in office

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  • they were the extremist of congress
  • extreme republicans
  • Lincoln, congress
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Freedman bureau

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  • organization of freedman, refugees, and abandoned lands
  • set up to last 1 year
  • help for poor, homeless blacks and whites
  • 40 hospitals, 4,000 schools, new courts, farms
  • 30,000 people given food, shelter in 1st year
  • renewed to last 5yrs
  • Johnson vetoes, congress overrides twice
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13th amendment

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  • abolish slavery, no person can be forced to serve unless punishment by crime (1865)
    South opposed
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14th amendment

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  • people born in US are citizens
  • all citizens are entitled to equal protection under the law
  • no citizens can be deprived of life, liberty, and property without due process
  • 1866
  • Johnson opposed
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Due process: how it works

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Rules to follow

  • arrest warrant enforced by law officers
  • present charges to suspect
  • inform suspect of rights ( to remain silent, to an attorney)
  • habeas corpus: to appear in court to plead before a judge (guilty/not guilty) show up in court
  • trial rights: judge, attorney, jury of peers, witnesses, appeal conviction
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To pass a law

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  1. A bill must pass each part of congress(51%): hor, senate—> legislative branch
  2. Bill is sent to president(executive branch)
    - president can either sign into law or veto
    - Separation of powers, checks and balances
  3. After a veto, the bill is returned to congress for an override veto
    - 2/3 of each part of congress override the veto
    - the bill then becomes a law
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Pocket veto: how it works

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  • if a bill is sent to the president within 10 days of a congressional recess the president may use a pocket veto: refuse to sign and bill dies
  • third option= pocket veto: president doesn’t have to do anything ONLY if it is 10 days before the recess
  • there is no way to override a pocket veto
  • Lincoln used this to kill the wade Davis bill
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Reconstruction

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Fixing, rebuild, the action of reconstructing or being reconstructed

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Abraham Lincoln

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16th president, saved union during civil war, emancipated slavery, assassinated in 1865

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10% plan

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Lincoln’s reconstruction plan, 10% of voters from 1860 pledge loyalty to US

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1860 voters

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Voters from 1860 who had an impact on the reconstruction plan

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Loyalty oath

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An oath/promise of being loyal to an organization, institution, or state within that individual person

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Confederate

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Southern supporters, leaders, members

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Reunification

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The act of coming together

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Reconciliation

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The restoration of friendly relations

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Tenure of office acts

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A federal law passed restricting the power of the pres

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Repeal

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Take away

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Secession

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Withdraw from government

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Abolition

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Get rid of

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Wade Davis bill

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Bill made by Benjamin wade and Henry winter Davis, 51% pledge loyalty to the US

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Pocket veto

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Retaining the bill unsigned until it is too late for it to be dealt with during the legislative session, 10 days before the congressional recess

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Veto

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A constitutional right to reject a decision or proposal made by a law making body

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Override

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To use ones authority to reject or cancel

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Amendment

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A minor change in a document

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Acquit

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Free someone from a criminal charge by a verdict of not guilty

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Due process(definition)

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Fair treatment through the normal judicial system

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Emancipation proclamation

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All slaves were forever free

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Equal protection

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14th amendment, everyone is protected under the law

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Reconstruction acts

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Cruel punishment to the southern states because they are not cooperating

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Freedman

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Emancipated slave

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Scalawag

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Whites in south who supported reconstruction

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Carpetbagger

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Person from north who moves to south for opportunity and profit during reconstruction

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Poll tax

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A tax levied on every adult

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Literacy test

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A test to determine to see if a person reached the literacy requirements for voting

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Grandfather clause

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If someone’s grandfather was allowed to vote in 1860 than u were able to

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Martial law

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Military government involving the suspension of ordinary law

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Impeach

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Accuse

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Ratify

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Sign or give formal consent to a treaty, contract, or agreement making it official

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Pardon

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The action of forgiving or being forgiven

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Radical reconstruction acts

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  • for all southern states except for Tennessee
  • south is divided into 5 military districts; each one run by a general under martial law
  • new state constitutions must be written by delegates elected by BLACK AND WHITE MALE CITIZENS
  • congress has to approve each state constitution
  • each state must ratify 14th amendment ( Tennessee already ratified 14th amendment)
  • all states do this by 1870
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Problems in the south

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  • Pardoned confederate leaders are elected
  • black codes, Jim Crow laws create a segregated society
  • ku klux klan emerges as a powerful group
  • blacks are denied rights, threatened, killed (lynching)
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Black codes

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Limit the rights of blacks

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Jim Crow laws

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Two of everything: two water fountains, two sections of the restaurant

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Segregated

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Separate

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Lynching

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Hanging death, execution without trial

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Ku klux klan (kkk)

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White extremist, against all non-whites, against all non-Christians

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Johnson v. Congress

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  • congress passes tenure of office act, march 1867
  • president cannot fire a person in a federal position without senate approval> a check on the president power
  • Johnson this is unconstitutional(it is!!)
  • February 1868: Johnson fires secretary of war Edwin Stanton ( from Lincoln’s cabinet)
  • March 1868: 11 articles of impeachment from the hor
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Impeachment trial

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  • March to May 1868
  • house is prosecutor
  • senate is the jury
  • Supreme Court Chief Justice is judge
  • 2/3 of senate (54) need to vote guilty to convict and remove president from office
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Results of impeachment trials

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  • senate does a roll call vote»»>35-18
  • if one vote had gone the other way (36-18) Johnson would have been removed
  • the last vote was Ross of Kansas
  • vote 35-19
  • Johnson stays in office but has little power
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Convict

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Guilty

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1868: Ulysses s. Grant is elected

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Grant was popular war hero, but he trusted too many ppl
Scalawags
Carpetbaggers
Both are terms of insult

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1869 : 15th amendment

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The right to vote cannot be denied because of race
- ratified 1870
S reaction: increased kkk activity
Threats, violence, firebombs, burning cross, beating, murder
Local officials were Often members

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Grant as president

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Physical reconstruction: rebuild schools, farms, businesses, rr
Taxes raised- but corruption is everywhere, many financial scandals
Grant is re-elected in 1872: he pardons ALL confederates

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Corruption

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Misused

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When confederates are empowered this leads to increased efforts to restrict African American voting

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  • poll tax
  • grandfather clause
  • literacy test

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