HIST206 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Emancipation Proclamation, John Wilkes Booth, Thirteenth Amendment To The United States Constitution

• School: University of Delaware
• Department: History
• Course: HIST206
• Professor: Kreitzer

Document Summary

*us civil war ranged from 1861-1865, plans for reconstruction began before the war ended* Reconstruction was the process of bringing the southern states that succeed from the. Union to join the confederacy back into the union. Civil war was the bloodiest war in american history. No guidelines on how to deal with the situation. Lincoln was acting as both president of the union and the designer of reconstruction. Many citizens faced loss and many people wanted retribution. This made it hard to plan what would happen without isolating the. Needed to devise a plan to mend the country, keep the confederacy from succeeding again, and get the country back on track quickly and efficiently. North supported abolition, high population of quakers. A large number of northern citizens believed slavery should end, but keep a social hierarchy throughout the us, whites at the top, blacks at the bottom.