LINCOLN Easy on the Southerners 1 HE OFFERED A PARDON TO ALL

Last updated: 6/21/2023

LINCOLN Easy on the Southerners 1 HE OFFERED A PARDON TO ALL SUPPORTERS OF THE CONFEDERACY IF THEY SWORE ALLEGIANCE TO THE UNION AND PLEDGED TO ACCEPT THE END OF SLAVERY WHEN 10 OF THE MEN ELIGIBLE TO VOTE IN 1860 DID THIS THE STATE QUALIFIED FOR REENTRY INTO THE UNION 2 NEW STATE CONSTITUTIONS HAD TO OUTLAW SLAVERY 3 NO PROTECTION FOR FREED AFRICAN AMERICANS JOHNSON VP Harsh on the Southerners 1 PROPOSED HIS PLAN AFTER LINCOLN WAS ASSASSINATED AND HE ASCENDED TO THE PRESIDENCY 2 AMNESTY TO WHITES WHO SIGNED LOYALTY OATHS 3 STATES MUST ABOLISH SLAVERY 4 STATES MUST PAY WAR DEBTS 5 NO ROLE FOR FREED BLACKS 6 NO VOTE FOR AFRICAN AMERICANS How did the agenda of the Radical Republicans affect Reconstruction RUCTION RADICAL REPUBLICANS IN CONGRESS Wanted to help blacks the most 1 PROMOTED EQUAL RIGHTS FOR FREED AFRICAN AMERICANS 2 MILITARY OCCUPATION OF THE SOUTH TO OVERSEE CHANGES 3 VOTING RIGHTS FOR AFRICAN AMERICAN MALES 4 13TH 14TH 15TH AMENDMENTS In order to ensure that white southerners who signed loyalty oaths were given amnesty Radical Republicans pressured the President to pardon them In order to ensure that the Reconstruction Amendments were implemented Radical Republicans mandated that new southern constitutions outlawed slavery O In order to ensure that the Reconstruction Amendments were implemented Radical Republicans placed the South under the control of the federal military O In order to ensure that white sout