HIST 1312 1st Edition Lecture 2 Outline of Last Lecture I. ReconstructionA. End of Civil WarB. Lincoln’s AssassinationC. Freedman’s BureauII. AmendmentsA. 13th AmendmentB. 14th AmendmentC. 15th Amendment Outline of Current Lecture I. Presidential ReconstructionA. Lincoln’s 10% PlanB. Pardons II. Congressional ReconstructionA. Command of the Army ActB. Tenure of Office ActC. 5 Military DistrictsIII. Black/Radical ReconstructionA. K.K.K.B. Force Acts of 1870 & 1871C. Mississippi PlanCurrent Lecturel.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 torebellion. 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 allowedmembers 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
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