RECONSTRUCTION 1865 1877
RECONSTRUCTIONS EFFECTS ON AFRICAN AMERICANS
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Confederate generals could serve as delegates to conventions that were called to consider ratification of the Thirteenth Amendment.
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all Southerners were required to take a special oath of allegiance to the Union and the president.
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Southern states could elect all-white governments and many Confederate leaders returned to power.
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Confederate generals could request and expect to receive presidential pardons that exempted them from punishment.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Under Johnson’s Presidential Reconstruction, all land that had been confiscated by the Union Army and distributed to the formerly enslaved people by the army or the Freedmen’s Bureau (established by Congress in 1865) reverted to its prewar owners.
Detailed explanation-2: -The Confederate states would be required to uphold the 13th Amendment, which abolished slavery; swear loyalty to the Union; and pay off their war debt. Then they could re-write their state constitutions, hold elections, and begin sending representatives to Washington.
Detailed explanation-3: -Johnson implemented his own form of Presidential Reconstruction, a series of proclamations directing the seceded states to hold conventions and elections to reform their civil governments.
Detailed explanation-4: -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.