History 1.04

Anna Stout

History 1.04

Mr. Stedt

Part 1 – Complete the following chart using information from the lesson. One example appears for you.

Somebody… | Wanted… | But… | So… |

President Abraham Lincoln | The nation to heal as quickly as possible from the Civil War and planned to reunify the nation quickly. | He was assassinated in 1865 only days after Robert E. Lee’s surrender. | Plans for reconstruction were taken over by Vice President Andrew Johnson, who became president after Lincoln’s death. |

President Andrew Johnson | To also reunite the nation and presidential Reconstruction. | Congress refused to seat legislators from those states and Congress also attempted to overrule the Southern acts by advancing the legislation. | He was impeached by the House of Representatives when he kept trying to discharge Edwin Stanton. |

Radical Republicans | To control the South. | Lincoln didn’t want a bill too strict, so he did not sign it into law. | The bill was automatically vetoed which kept the Wade-Davis bill from signing into law. |

Southern Democrats | The removal of all the remaining federal troops from the south as well as having a change in congress. | They had to commend the decision of the commission and directive to make Rutherford B. Hayes the 19th president in the 1876 election. | They had agreed to accept Rutherford B. Hayes as the next president if he removed all remaining federal troops from the South. |

Part 2 – Answer the following questions in a complete paragraph of your own words.

What was the main issue relating to Reconstruction that divided Republicans at the end of the Civil War? If you had been a member of Congress at the time, what type of plan for Reconstruction would you have supported and why?

The main issue relating to Reconstruction that divided Republicans at the end of the Civil War was between the moderate and the radicals. The moderate people who included Lincoln wanted to unify the South back in with them. However the...