Struggle for National Reconstruction

Presidential Reconstruction 

• Lincoln - 10% loyalty 
  • Repudiate secession 
  • Ratify 13th amendment 
  • Amnesty to ex confeds 
• Johnson 
  • Allows Confeds to reform S. gov'ts
  • Ratification of 13th amend. 
  • Individual pardons 

Congressional Reconstruction

• Radical 
• March 1865: Freedmen's Bureau
• Civil Rights Act (1866)
  • Slaves = citizens have full access to courts 
• Johnson vetoes, Congress overrides 
• 14th Amendment 
  • Federal Power 
  • 1866
• Congressional Reconstruction Continued 
  • Reconst. Act of 1867 
    • Directs South into 5 military districts 
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