US History › Section H · Civil War and Reconstruction › Topic H.5
Restoring the Union
Winning the war answered two questions: the Union would survive, and slavery would end. It left open harder ones. On what terms would the defeated states return, who would set those terms, and what would freedom mean for about four million people who had been enslaved?
In this topic
- The questions of 1865
- Lincoln's Ten Percent Plan
- The Radical challenge: Wade-Davis
- Worked example: comparing two plans
- The Thirteenth Amendment
- Worked example: one clause, long consequences
- Freedom in practice
- The assassination of Lincoln
- Andrew Johnson's plan
- Congress refuses to accept the result
- Common mistakes to avoid
- Key takeaways
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