HIST 2057 Chapter : Reconstruction
Document Summary
Can slavery continue indefinitely: lincoln fights to answer these questions. Lincoln"s goal was to win the war but not destroy the old south: congress wanted to transform the south and its society and economy, lincoln believed in a gradual emancipation plan. Wartime reconstruction, 1862-1864: emancipation proclamation, 1863, proclamation of amnesty and reconstruction, 1863, known as. Lincoln"s ten percent plan: moderate plan, wade-davis bill. Free slaves could enlist in the union army and fight the southern soldiers. Government: proclamation guarantees the protection of lower ranking. Confederate soldiers from trials of treason: confederates who left union to join confederates and tortured or killed union soldiers they would not be given amnesty. Lincoln"s plan did not call for punishment to the confederates, also only frees the slaves but does nothing more for them. Lincoln believed it was way to radical, lincoln refused to sign the bill (effectively vetoed it) and it died.
