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One of the most controversial issues about Reconstruction was how to treat the states that had seceded. Should they be punished? Should they be welcomed back to the Union with open arms? Andrew Johnson leaned toward the latter, as shown in this document, which pardoned members of the Confederacy. Report broken link
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As President Johnson embarked on his plan for Reconstruction, he envisioned that the leaders who had dominated Southern politics before the war—that is, the wealthy class of plantation owners, who actually represented a very small minority of the total Southern white population—would now be replaced with Unionists (those who had remained ...
Feb 3, 2021 · May 29, 1865: Andrew Johnson’s Reconstruction Plan. President’s Johnson’s Reconstruction plan offered general amnesty to southern white people who pledged a future loyalty to the...
Mar 27, 2024 · 1865 - 1877. Location: United States. Context: American Civil War. Reconstruction Acts. Major Events: Reconstruction Acts. Wade-Davis Bill. Key People: Andrew Johnson. Top Questions. What was the Reconstruction era? Why was the Reconstruction era important? What were the Reconstruction era promises?
Andrew Johnson Reconstruction Plan The looming showdown between Lincoln and the Congress over competing reconstruction plans never occurred. The president was assassinated on April 14, 1865.
May: President Johnson announces his plan of Presidential Reconstruction. It calls for general amnesty and restoration of property -- except for slaves -- to all Southerners who will swear...
In March 1867 the new Congress passed, over Johnson’s veto, the first of the Reconstruction acts, providing for suffrage for male freedmen and military administration of the Southern states. With Reconstruction virtually taken out of his hands, the president, by exercising his veto and by narrowly interpreting the law, managed to delay the ...
