I. Presidential
Reconstruction
A. Lincoln's
Plan
1. Legal
Questions
2. His
Plan
3. Reaction
of Congress
B. Wade-Davis
Bill (1864)
C. Andrew
Johnson
1. Background
and Character
2. His
Plan
3. The
situation in Dec. 1865
II. Congressional
Reconstruction
A. Radical
Republicans: Charles Sumner and Thaddeus Stevens
B. Why
Johnson's plan was doomed
C. Black
Codes
D. Joint
Committee on Reconstruction
E. Freedmen's
Bureau (1865)
F. Civil
Rights Act (1866)
III. Johnson
v. Congress
A. Johnson's
reasoning
B. Fourteenth
Amendment
C. 1866
Congressional Election
D. Reconstruction
Acts
E. Tenure
of Office Act 1867
F. Impeachment
IV. Reconstruction
Continues
A. Election
of 1868
B. Fifteenth
Amendment
C. Republican
Reconstruction
D. Treatment
of Blacks in the South and the White Counterrevolution
E. The
Election of 1876 and the Compromise of 1877