APUSH: Chapters 16 and 17

-Amnesty - all Southerners (except high military and government officials) should be pardoned upon taking an oath of allegiance to the Union

-10 percent - when 10% of the voters in a state took this oath of allegiance, they were permitted to form a legal state government, and send reps. to Congress

-A majority of the voters would have to take an oath of allegiance

-New State constitutions would be required to abolish slavery, and disenfranchise Confed. civil and military leaders

(Pocket vetoed by Lincoln)

-Harsher than Lincoln's, but fell short of expectations of Radical Republicans

-Blocked by Rad Rep

-Some rights were granted to blacks: right to marry, enter into contracts, be sued, own property in some states

-However, segregation was enforced, could not serve in juries, could not testify against whites, could be punished more severely for crimes than whites

-Proclaimed all persons born of naturalized in US were citizens

-If a state denied suffrage to male citizen, its representation in Congress would be proportionally reduced

-Disqualified all prewar officeholders who had supported the Confederacy

-Eliminated Confederate debt but maintained federal debt

-Invalidated state governments formed under Lincoln and Johnson plans

Prohibited the denial of suffrage because of race, color, or previous condition of servitude

Northerners who went South - some were eager to help blacks adjust to freedom; many were teachers and priests; others sought to further their own fortunes through business and politics

Southern whites who cooperated with carpetbaggers

Organizations operated to drive out carpetbaggers, fighter scalawags, and intimidate blacks so as to keep them from voting. Klansmen threatened blacks, burned their homes, flogged them, and sometimes lynched them.