Reconstruction
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Important details to remember about the Reconstruction
On the complex question of returning the defeated Confederate states to the Union, charles sumner believed that the condeferate states had ceased to exist as states and must be treated as conquered territory.
President Lincoln's 10% plan for reconstruction did not require southern sttes to guarantee African americans the right to vote.
Congress' Wade-Davis Bill required southern states to repudiate the confederate debt.
Andrew Johnson was made President Lincoln's running mate in 1864 primarily for the political benefits that would result from his being a Democrat from a border state.(johnson was known for his distaste of southern aristocracy. but his rigid style of politics soon alienated him from every powerful Republican in Washington
President Johnson's Reconstruction proposal would not have required full civil and political equality for African Americans.
The Fourteenth amendment guaranteed U.s. citizenship to former slaves.
(this amnedment did not include the Indians)
The 14th Amendment did not require former Confederate states to pay their war debts...