HIST 162 Study Guide - Quiz Guide: Fourteenth Amendment To The United States Constitution, Reconstruction Acts, Radical Republican

• School: Central, CCSU
• Department: History
• Course: HIST 162
• Professor: Thomas M.Slopnick

Document Summary

Reconstruction: readmitting southern states and integrating freed slaves into society, time period after the civil war; ultimately a failure. Leader/president of confederate states during the civil war. General of confederate army of northern virginia. Wanted to readmit confederate states as soon as possible, but required 10% of voters in confederate states to swear oath of allegiance first. African-americans were not granted any rights under this plan. Required 50% of voters in confederate states to swear oath of allegiance before readmission into the union. Congress voted to pass, vetoed by lincoln. Tailor president , born in humble beginnings, caused him to be bitter towards wealthier men. Elected to congress from tennessee, refused to leave union because he did not like rich plantation owners. Honest but stubborn, wrong man at the wrong time . Generous , oath can be taken to constitution to be pardoned unless they had more than k in taxable income.