HIST 1312 1st Edition Lecture 2 Outline of Last Lecture I Reconstruction A End of Civil War B Lincoln s Assassination C Freedman s Bureau II Amendments A 13th Amendment B 14th Amendment C 15th Amendment Outline of Current Lecture I Presidential Reconstruction A Lincoln s 10 Plan B Pardons II Congressional Reconstruction A Command of the Army Act B Tenure of Office Act C 5 Military Districts III Black Radical Reconstruction A K K K B Force Acts of 1870 1871 C Mississippi Plan Current Lecture l A Lincoln s 10 plan was a deal made with the South He said that if 10 of southerners voted in the 1860 election to rejoin the Union then that particular southern state would be back in the right relationship with the Union Meaning that the Union would forgive all war debts and reconstruction would end faster for the states that voted to be back in the Union If someone had served as a confederate official or a wealthy white Democrat elite of the South they could not vote yet because they were charged with incitement to rebellion All other men in the South could vote again besides these B This 10 Plan was President Lincoln s way of saying he forgave the South of their war crimes he pardoned them They only had to deal with the repercussions of the These notes represent a detailed interpretation of the professor s lecture GradeBuddy is best used as a supplement to your own notes not as a substitute Reconstruction They did not have to pay their war debts and they were accepted back into the Union ll A The Command of the Army Act was passed in 1867 and it required President Johnson to issue all military orders through the General of the Army Ulysses S Grant instead of dealing directly with the military This act kept any interference with Reconstruction at a minimum B The Tenure of Office Act was created in 1867 to restrict the President s power specifically President Johnson at this time to remove office holders without the approval of the Senate This law was enacted with President Johnson s veto because Johnson did not like his Secretary of War Stanton C The South is divided into 5 military districts in 1867 1 is Virginia 2 is North and South Carolina 3 is Alabama Georgia and Florida 4 is Arkansas and Mississippi and 5 is Texas and Louisiana By dividing these rebel states Congress had more efficient rule over them lll A The K K K began to form around the 1860 s with the freedom of blacks Once blacks were given the right to vote white Anglo Saxon Protestants formed a group called the K K K to protest black rights and they wore signature white robes with pointed hats when they went on their raids They would stand at voting doors to intimidate blacks from voting and they would lynch blacks as well B The first Force Act in 1870 was against the Ku Klux Klan because of their violence towards blacks It established penalties for people hindering other citizen s rights to vote However if a member was caught for harassing a black he would be tried but by fellow southerners and possibly Ku Klux Klan members So the Force Act of 1871 allowed members of the K K K to either be tried or shot on sight Many of the K K K could now be shot whenever they were seen wearing a white robe with their white hat so the K K K died out for a while C The Mississippi Plan was organized by southern whites who wanted to keep blacks and southerners who supported the north from voting They formed Rifle Clubs and stood outside the voting entrance making it difficult for blacks to enter and if their gun went off killing the black man they could claim it as an accident and wouldn t be charged So many blacks were discouraged from voting in the South because of this
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