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Abraham Lincoln and Reconstruction


Lincoln's Reconstruction: An Unfulfilled Vision of the Union

As Union victory became imminent, Lincoln set forth on the long path toward reconstruction, presenting in his speeches a vision of reconstruction in which the ...

Lincoln on Reconstruction - Teaching American History

In the annual message of December 1863, and in the accompanying proclamation, I presented a plan of reconstruction, as the phrase goes, which I ...

Abraham Lincoln's Presidency | U.S. History Primary Source Timeline

Abraham Lincoln was elected president in 1860 and again in 1864. His first inauguration, on March 4,1861, featured an unprecedented amount of security around ...

The White House and Reconstruction

On December 8, 1863, President Lincoln introduced his first plan for Reconstruction; the Proclamation of Amnesty and Reconstruction. This ...

Wade-Davis Bill (1864) | National Archives

In December, President Lincoln proposed a reconstruction program that would allow Confederate states to establish new state governments after 10 ...

Abraham Lincoln and Reconstruction

Lincoln's reconstruction policies were not designed to punish the South, but to usher in a “new birth of freedom.”

Abraham Lincoln - Postwar Policy, Reconstruction, Assassination

Abraham Lincoln - Postwar Policy, Reconstruction, Assassination: At the end of the war, Lincoln's policy for the defeated South was not ...

Lincoln's Plan for Reconstruction | Purpose, Provisions & Legacy

President Lincoln hoped to reunify the nation as quickly and painlessly as possible. He realized that it wasn't just the South that needed to be rebuilt; many ...

Reconstruction Timeline | American Experience | Official Site - PBS

Early 1864: President Lincoln begins Reconstruction in the Union-occupied former Confederate state of Louisiana. Lincoln's lenient 10 percent policy upsets ...

Primary Source: Lincoln's Plans for Reconstruction - NCpedia

In 1864, Abraham Lincoln won re-election as President of the United States. He faced strong opposition from Democrats who wanted to end the war quickly.

Lincoln's Plan | United States History I - Lumen Learning

In early December 1863, the president began the process of reunification by unveiling a three-part proposal known as the ten percent plan that outlined how the ...

Lincoln Lecture Discusses the Reconstruction Period and America's ...

On September 21, the sixth annual Abraham Lincoln Lecture on Constitutional Law was held at Northwestern Pritzker School of Law, ...

Timeline | Abraham Lincoln and Emancipation | Articles and Essays

Lincoln issued his Proclamation of Amnesty and Reconstruction, which established lenient terms for the return to the Union of former Confederates, but ...

Abraham Lincoln and Reconstruction | Princeton University Press

Peyton McCrary offers a comprehensive account of the social and political upheavals in Louisiana, set against the background of a new interpretation of the ...

Lincoln and Reconstruction - Southern Illinois University Press

As the Civil War progressed, Rodrigue shows, Lincoln's definition of reconstruction transformed from the mere restoration of the seceded states to a more ...

Reconstruction era - Wikipedia

Lincoln was assassinated on April 14, 1865, just as fighting was drawing to a close. He was replaced by President Andrew Johnson. Johnson vetoed numerous ...

Reconstruction ‑ Civil War End, Changes & Act of 1867 | HISTORY

At the outset of the Civil War, to the dismay of the more radical abolitionists in the North, President Abraham Lincoln did not make abolition ...

Abraham Lincoln and the Problem of Reconstruction - Project MUSE

Abraham Lincoln considered the problem of reconstruction, and for four years he took actions that he hoped would hasten the end of the rebellion.

United States - Reconstruction, New South, Industrialization

Reconstruction and the New South, 1865–1900 · News · Reconstruction, 1865–77 · Reconstruction under Abraham Lincoln · Lincoln's plan · The Radicals' plan.

Lincoln's Ten Percent Plan | History, Elements & Significance - Lesson

The Ten Percent Plan was a plan proposed by President Abraham Lincoln during the Reconstruction-era following the conclusion of the Civil War.