HIST 2057 Chapter : History 2057 Mending A Divided Nation 01082017
Document Summary
January 8, 2017: abraham lincoln and reconstruction. Reconstruction- period in which those problems that led to the civil. Two major issues remained after the civil war: how to mend a divided nation (bringing southern states back into a unified country) and what to do with the former slaves. His policy consisted of: granting amnesty (no prosecution for treason or going to war against the. United states) to confederates who took an oath of allegiance to the. One tenth of the voting population only included white men and was a very small percentage of its state. It was even a smaller subset of white men because of some states requiring owning property. Louisiana is the first confederate state to be readmitted under. By april 1865 after the civil war, virginia and. Lincoln"s policy was very lenient, working in small doses to readmit. However, abraham lincoln was also assassinated in this year and andrew johnson took office.
