HIST 2112 Midterm: History Exam 1
Document Summary
In response to lincoln"s 10 % plan, they called for a majority of voters/government officials to take the ironclad oath: swear they never supported the confederacy or made war against the. They had to take the oath in order to participate in future politics of the south. Congress approved the bill, but lincoln pocket vetoed it because no southern state would have met the criteria and it would have delayed reconstruction. Significant because lincoln wanted to quickly bring back the southern states into the union. Helped ease the transition from slavery to freedom by negotiating labor contracts and wage labor, reuniting families of freedmen, establishing public schools for freed people and poor whites. Significant because it was a symbol of the lack of commitment; the northern voters grew weary. A series of discriminatory state laws designed to maintain the social and economic structure of racial slavery. Significant because it demonstrated how northern voters grew weary of reconstruction.
