HIST 119: The Civil War and Reconstruction Era, 1845-1877
Lecture 21 - Andrew Johnson and the Radicals: A Contest over the Meaning of Reconstruction. In this lecture, Professor Blight begins his engagement with Reconstruction. Reconstruction, Blight suggests, might best be understood as an extended referendum on the meaning of
the Civil War. Even before the war's end, various constituencies in the North attempted to control the shape of the post-war Reconstruction of the South. In late 1863, President Abraham Lincoln offered his lenient "Ten Percent Plan." Six months later, Congressional Republicans
concerned by Lincoln's charity rallied behind the more radical provisions of the Wade-Davis Bill. Despite their struggle for control over Reconstruction, Congressional Radicals and President Lincoln managed to work together on two vital pieces of Reconstruction legislation in
the first months of 1865 - the 13th Amendment, which outlawed slavery in the United States, and the Freedmen's Bureau bill.
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Lecture 21 - Andrew Johnson and the Radicals
Time
Lecture Chapters
[00:00:00]
1. Introduction to Reconstruction
[00:05:11]
2. Reconstruction as a Forum to Understand the Civil War
[00:13:37]
3. The Early Debates on Reconstruction and Lincoln's Ten-Percent Plan
[00:24:49]
4. The Development of the Wade-Davis Manifesto
[00:36:04]
5. The Passing of the 13th Amendment and the Freedmen's Bureau