Question Asked by Huck. Your Email Address:. Index Newest Popular Best. New Player Log In. Newest Questions Post a Question Search All Questions Please cite any factual claims with citation links or references from authoritative sources. Editors continuously recheck submissions and claims. It fails following the financial panic of , and the federal government does nothing to bail out depositors. A clause that would prohibit segregated schools is defeated.
The Republicans also promise federal aid for southern railroad construction and flood control along the Mississippi River. Digital History. December The 10 Percent Plan. President Lincoln announces a plan for reconstructing those Confederate states already under Union control. He offers to pardon Confederates who take an oath to support the Union. When ten percent of a state's citizens eligible to vote in swear an oath of allegiance and a state has abolished slavery, he promises to readmit the state to the Union.
By the end of the war, Lincoln publicly calls for limited black suffrage in the South. July The Wade-Davis Bill. March Freedman's Bureau. To coordinate efforts to protect the rights of former slaves and provide them with education and medical care, Congress creates the Freedmen's Bureau. April 4, Lincoln's Assassination.
Lincoln's assassination makes Vice President Andrew Johnson president. November Black Codes. Beginning with Mississippi, the ex-Confederate states adopt "Black Codes," legal codes that deny African Americans the right to purchase or even rent land.
December Johnson Declares the Union Restored. Despite the failure to fully comply with his provisions for readmission to the Union, President Johnson announces that the Union is restored. Virginia was re-admitted back into the Union in Only Texas and Georgia had not complied with the requirements to re- join the Union. They would join the union later that same year.
President Andrew Johnson notably opposed the Reconstruction Acts, as he felt that it would hamper state government autonomy and stand in the way of a peaceful reconciliation between the states. Despite his vetoes, Congress managed to pass all four Reconciliation Acts. Georgia's declaration elaborates a description of the history of slavery and economy in the century before their secede. But, in terms of timing, their issues are specific. What exactly are they referring to with their "serious causes of complaint?
In essence, it all comes down to the abolitionist movement. In the South, there were numerous uprisings against slavery by black people. This was a cause of great concern to slaveholders, especially in states where the slave population was a near-majority or was a majority. It was a source of fear and anxiety, and one that they kept in check through restrictive laws and the threat of military force. These laws were opposed by many groups, especially by free black people living beyond the immediate influence of slaveholders.
Northern abolitionists actively opposed these laws meant to keep the enslaved population oppressed. They refused to return escaped slaves or report on them.
They helped more people escape slavery. They opposed attempts to expand slavery or support it at a federal level. They generated a great deal of anger and paranoia among slaveholders that exploded when abolitionist John Brown actively armed and incited an uprising in Harper's Ferry, Virginia.
People across the South feared that Northerners would incite violence and terror to get rid of slavery in their states.
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