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=== ﻿Andrew Johnson made a plan of Reconstruction similar's to Lincoln's. Johnson allowed southern states to organize new governments, and to elect representatives to Congress. Each southern state was required to abolish slavery and ratify the thirteenth amandment. By fall most southern states had all of Johnson's requirments. In 1856, when congress met, the representatives and senators elected by white southerners included many fromer confederate leaders. Congress quickly denied Johnson's approach. ===
 * ===Notes on Standard=== || * === After the Civil War ended, the nation was separated and certain people made plans to unite the south and north again. The process of uniting both the north and the south was known as the Reconstruction. ===
 * === All southerners faced a long struggle to rebuild their homes, and lives. ===
 * === Physical destruction was caused on the south, cities and plantations were destroyed, and two thirds of the railroads were destroyed. ===
 * === A quarter of a million soldiers died in the war, thousands were disabled by their wounds. ===
 * === Most slaves that had been freed after the war had no land, no jobs, and no eduaction. ===
 * === The economy of the south was ruined, money wasn't worth anything, and people lost their savings. ===
 * === In 1863 congress passed a plan for Reconstruction called the Wade-Davis Bill. In the bill 50 percent of voters would have to sign a loyalty oath beforoe a state could return to the union. Though the Wade-Davis Bill was never approved, because Lincoln would not sign it. ===
 * === Congress passed the Civil Rights Act of 1866, it granted citizenship rights to African Americans. It garanteed the civil rights of all people except for Native Americans. This bill later got enough votes to become a law. ===
 * === The fourteenth amendment became a good tool for the civil rights. However, almost a century passed before it was used for that purpose. ===
 * === The Reconstruction Act of 1867 got rid of all the governments of southern states that refused to ratify the fourteenth amendment. It then placed military rule on these states. Before going back to the union, each state had to write a new constitution, and ratify the fourteenth amendment. ===
 * === Since they were under military rule, blacks were able to vote, in five states African American voters out numbered white voters. In the election of 1868, Republicans won all southern states. After that most of the states had been "Reconstructed. ===
 * === Southern states used black-codes, to control African Americans. ===
 * **African Americans could not vote or serve on juries.**
 * === ﻿ ﻿The end of Reconstruction was a exclusive result of the presidential election of 1876.  ===
 * === The Reconstruction ended because it was one vote short from becoming a law, but then democratic's agreed to accept it because congress pointed a special commission of all twenty electoral votes to Haynes. === ||
 * ===**Dates with specific references regarding all persons or parts of your standard** === || === After the Civil War ended, Lincoln hoped for a peaceful Reconstruction.Though Lincoln didn't get to put his plans into practice. He was shot on April 14, 1856, by John Wilkes Booth, while Lincoln was attending a play with his wife. === ||
 * ===Describe any specific people involved and what they are known for=== || ===Abraham Lincoln wanted to make it easy for the southern states to rejoin the Union. His goal was to fix up the bad effects of the war as quickly as possible. In 1863 he came up with a plan called the "Ten Percent Plan." If ten percent of states voters swore an oath of loyalty to the United States, the voters could make a new state government. Then that government would have to declare an end to slavery.===

=== Hiram Revels was a preacher, who preached for African American across the midwest. In 1870, he was elected to the US senate. He than became the nation's first African American senator. He was elected to complete the unfinished term of former Confederate president Jefferson Davis. === || Abraham Lincoln (16th President) []
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