Reconstruction After The American Civil War

Lesson Snapshot:

• Reconstruction is the word used to describe the process of returning the US Southern States to the USA.
• It was also the process by which Southern Society would be rebuilt with the end of slavery.
• Lincoln started the process before the end of the US Civil War and his assassination.
• The Emancipation of the Slaves had started the process in 1863 and Lincoln now had to plan for a life with freed slaves in the USA.
• The plan that Lincoln devised was now called the Ten Percent Plan:
  
  The 10% Plan:
• If a Southern State wanted to be readmitted to the Union it had to agree to the following:
• 10% of the men eligible to vote from 1860 had to agree an oath of loyalty to the Union (they had been the ones to secede at that time.)
• The State had to support all existing Acts of Congress relating to slavery.
• They allow some African-Americans to vote.
• Louisiana was the first Southern State to accept Lincoln’s 10% Plan but Congress refused to accept them back – they wanted a tougher plan.

Powerpoint Lesson Plan:

• Aimed at Students studying across UK Year 7,8 & 9 or equivalent
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• Complete lesson plan focused on the reconstruction of the US after the Civil war.