PHYS 2001 Lecture : Recitation Exercises Week 7
Document Summary
Experiments with reconstruction started during the war. The constitution does not answer two questions: is the union perpetual and can slavery continue indefinitely. Emancipation proclamation, 1863- it ended slavery in southern controlled states. Proclamation of amnesty and reconstruction/10% plan- lincoln"s plan to reunite the union. Lincoln"s plan does nothing for black civil rights. Radical republicans wanted legislation to protect free black men as well: pardoning confederates who signed an oath of allegiance to the union. Confederates who had committed torture or executed union soldiers would be prosecuted. Wade-davis bill- a bill proposed for the reconstruction of the south written by two radical. Republicans, senator benjamin wade of ohio and representative henry winter davis of. Radical republicans wanted to disenfranchise confederates and appoint military union governors. Also, civil rights and voting rights to blacks. Land redistribution, a free labor system: the army redistributed land to give black people land to farm. The government also gave mules to freed men.
