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