Prospects for Reconstruction at War’s End

• Background

  • Lincoln’s “ten-percent” plan (1863)
  • Wade-Davis bill and Lincoln’s veto (1864)

• Sherman’s Special Field Order No. 15 (Jan. 16, 1865)

• Congress endorses 13th Amendment (Jan. 31, 1865)

• Freedmen’s Bureau established (Mar. 1865)

• Lincoln’s encouragement of limited suffrage for blacks in Louisiana (April 1865)

• Lincoln’s assassination hardens northern opinion

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