USA HISTORY

RECONSTRUCTION 1865 1877

RECONSTRUCTIONS EFFECTS ON AFRICAN AMERICANS

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
All of these were included in President Johnson’s Reconstruction Plan except
A
cancellation of war debts
B
new state constitutions for Confederate states.
C
ratification of the Thirteenth Amendment.
D
guarantee of voting rights for freedmen
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Johnson’s plan envisioned the following: Pardons would be granted to those taking a loyalty oath. No pardons would be available to high Confederate officials and persons owning property valued in excess of $20, 000. A state needed to abolish slavery before being readmitted.

Detailed explanation-2: -section4. In 1865 President Andrew Johnson implemented a plan of Reconstruction that gave the white South a free hand in regulating the transition from slavery to freedom and offered no role to blacks in the politics of the South.

Detailed explanation-3: -States could be restored fully into the Union after they wrote new constitutions that accepted the abolition of slavery, repudiated secession, and canceled the Confederate debt. State conventions charged with writing new constitutions were not required to allow African Americans to participate.

Detailed explanation-4: -The Lincoln Reconstruction Plan. The Initial Congressional Plan. The Andrew Johnson Reconstruction Plan. The Radical Republican Reconstruction Plan.

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