AMH 2020 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Fourteenth Amendment To The United States Constitution, Sea Islands, Dawes Act
14 Mar 2018
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The term reconstruction refers to the period immediately following the civil war. President lincoln"s reconstruction plans were committed to rapid readmission of the southern states to the union. President andrew johnson was opposed by radical republicans. Black codes showed that southerners wanted african americans to return to positions of servility. The first bill ever passed over a presidential veto was the. The radical republicans believed that the rights of the freedmen should be ensured by the federal government. On the sea islands in the early 1860"s, former slaves seemed to aspire to lives as independent farmers. Why was abraham lincoln"s reconstruction policy called the 10 percent plan? former confederate states could reestablish their governments once 10 percent of voters pledged loyalty to the union. The freedmen"s bureau was established as an all-purpose relief agency for the south. Northerners who moved south after the civil war.
