¡  Lincoln’s Plan – States will be readmitted when 10% of 1860

voters swear allegiance to US, and the state agrees to end slavery. Amnesty for all except high-ranking Confederate officers.

¡ Wade Davis Bill – States readmitted when at least 50% take oath of loyalty to the union.

WADE-DAVIS VS. 10 PERCENT PLAN

¡  13th (1865) – Abolishes Slavery

¡  14th (1868) – Equal Citizenship Rights Regardless of Race

¡  15th (1870) – Prohibits Discrimination in Voting Rights Based on Race

RECONSTRUCTION AMENDMENTS

FREEDMEN’S BUREAU

Created in 1865, it helped freed slaves with housing, employment, education, and fair trials.

MILITARY RECONSTRUCTION

¡ "The slave went free; stood a brief moment in the sun; then moved back into slavery”

-W.E.B. DuBois

ELECTION OF 1876

¡ The removal of all federal troops from the former Confederate States.

¡  The appointment of at least one Southern Democrat to Hayes's cabinet.

¡ The construction of another transcontinental railroad using the Texas and Pacific in the South

¡ Legislation to help industrialize the South and build their economy.

COMPROMISE OF 1877

COMPROMISE OF 1877

¡  Let me assure my countrymen of the Southern States that it is my earnest desire to regard and promote their truest interest — the interests of the white and of the colored people both and equally — and to put forth my best efforts in behalf of a civil policy which will forever wipe out in our political affairs the color line and the distinction between North and South, to the end that we may have not merely a united North or a united South, but a united country.

Hayes’ Inaugural Address (5 March 1877).