AMH 2020 Chapter 16: The Agony of Reconstruction 1865-1877
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Robert smalls was born a slave in south carolina in 1839. When the union army blockaded charleston in 1862, smalls took command of the confederate ship, the. He was then commissioned as a union officer off the coast of south carolina and later served in the south carolina constitutional. Convention, state legislature, and even the us congress. The white house favored a minimal approach to reconstruction while the congress favored a radical approach. Minimal reconstruction policy-quickly restoring the union with no protection for the freed slaves except prohibiting slavery. Radial reconstruction policy-(cid:498)loyal(cid:499) men will replace confederate power and blacks will acquire basic rights. Tensions between abraham lincoln and the congress arose nearing the end of the civil. War as they both had different approaches towards reconstruction. Ten percent plan-1863; proposed by lincoln stating that once 10% or more of a voting population of any occupied confederate state has taken oath, they can set up a local government repentant confederates.
