RECONSTRUCTION 1865 1877
PRESIDENT LINCOLNS LEGACY
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Congress let them be their own country again
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Congress forced officials from each state to come to Washington to beg for a pardon
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Congress cut financial support to the south until they agreed to ratify the 14th Amendment and rejoin the union
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Congress took control of the ten states by dividing them into 5 military districts
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Detailed explanation-1: -Under the Radical Republican Plan, southern states had to write a new constitution and ratify the Fourteenth Amendment. If they did not do that, then their governments would be removed and military rule would be imposed on them.
Detailed explanation-2: -The Radicals felt strongly that the Confederates needed to be punished for their pro-slavery views and should only be readmitted to the Union after they had abolished slavery among other conditions. They believed that government intervention in states was necessary to ensure abolition and civil rights for Blacks.
Detailed explanation-3: -Radical Republicans won over two-thirds of the seats in the House of Representatives and the Senate. They now had the power to override Johnson’s vetoes and pass the Civil Rights Act and the bill to extend the Freedmen’s Bureau, and they did so immediately. Congress had now taken charge of the South’s reconstruction.
Detailed explanation-4: -what did Radical Republicans do to make the effect of the Fourteenth Amendment stronger? They passed four more Reconstruction laws. What kept some African Americans who could read and write were allowed to vote: The test they had to take was extremely difficult.