Reconstruction

Claude Bowers, The Tragic Era (1929)

Abraham Lincoln's 10% Plan 1863)

Wade-Davis Bill (1864)

Andrew Johnson's Plan (1865)

Black Codes
     -Labor
     -Apprentice
     -Vagrancy

The American System
     -Morrill Tariff (1861)
     -Morrill Land-Grant College Act (1862)
     -National Banking Acts (1862, 1863, 1864)
     -Homestead Act (1862)
     -Railroad Land Grants (1862, 1864)

Andrew Johnson
     -Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands
     -Civil Rights Bill (1865)
     -Fourteenth Amendment

Radical Reconstruction
     -African-Americans
     -Scalawags
     -Carpetbaggers

Criticisms
     -Corruption
     -Spending
     -Incompetence
     -Harshness

"Forty Acres and a Mule"

Compromise of 1877












     Emancipation


Congressional Reconstruction


      Election of 1876
                       

Homesteading