HIST 2057 Lecture : PAPER 1 Lecture 1
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These questions were first tackled by lincoln, then johnson, and lastly congress: abraham lincoln and reconstruction, more concerned about uniting north and south as quickly as possible, granted amnesty to southerners to encourage them to rejoin the country. Lincoln was a republican when he originally ran, when he reran during the war his running mate was johnson (a southern democrat) Lincoln renames the republican party as the union party. People assumed that johnson would be tougher on the southern states than lincoln was. This was incorrect, johnson was much more lenient: granted a blanket amnesty, appoints prominent politicians to be governors and reorganize each state, by 1865 all states, but texas are readmitted (texas admitted in 1866) A. thirteenth amendment (1865: abolishes slavery officially in every state. Emancipation proclamation did not abolish all slavery: congress was incredibly unhappy that southern states were readmitted without congressional approval. The same people in charge of the confederacy are now in control of congress.
