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A 6 page paper detailing the various aspects of Reconstruction. Particular emphasis is placed the successes and failures of the policies relating to the rights of the former slaves and how those rights were both protected and abused. Bibliography lists four sources.
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File: D0_Recon.doc
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war relatively unscathed, and in fact had prospered as a result of it, the south has sustained tremendous damage both materially and ideologically. Much of the south had been
destroyed. Atlanta Georgia and Richmond Virginia were in shambles. Southern railroads and industries were almost completely destroyed. States which had succeeded had to be readmitted. Decisions
had to be made regarding how or if to punish Confederate leaders and how to go about protecting the rights of the newly freed slaves and the white Southern supporters
who had remained faithful to the Union during the war. The policies and legislation which would follow would leave a long term mark on our nation. The most
notable of these would be the various acts and policies regarding what to do with the former slaves. Before
the war had even ended the debate as to how to handle the above issues had begun. President Lincoln had laid out his plan for Reconstruction in December of
1863, a year and four months before the end of the war. Lincolns plan was fairly straightforward in addressing the issue of reentrance into the Union for those states
who had succeeded (Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, and Virginia). Lincoln proposed that if ten percent of the citizens of each state
(based on the number who had voted in the Presidential election of 1860) would swear an allegiance to the Union that state would be allowed to form a new government
and constitution (which prohibited slavery) and rejoin the Union. The issue at to whether Congress or the President should determine the
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