Politics of Reconstruction

Social and economic distress

End of slavery

Government response

O. O. Howard and the Freedman’s Bureau

Presidential Reconstruction

Lincoln

Louisiana

1863

10% Plan

Black suffrage

Arkansas and Tennessee

Congress

Wade-Davis Bill

50%

Iron clad oath

Pocket veto

Lincoln Assassinated

Andrew Johnson

$20,000

Banned certain classes

Pardons

Congressional Reconstruction, 1867-77

Radical Republicans

Thaddeus Stevens and Charles Sumner

Renewal of Freedman’s bureau

Veto overridden

Civil Rights Act of 1865

Election of 1866

Constitutional Amendments

13^th, 14^th, 15^th

Tenure of Office Act and Command of the Military Act

Impeachment of Johnson

Election of 1876, Hayes v. Tilden

Compromise of 1877