Presidential and Congressional Approaches to Wartime Reconstruction

A Historical Analysis of Wartime Reconstruction Policies

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The wartime reconstruction, in reality, started at the period of war. According to Alexander, in the beginning, Lincoln was of the idea of settling all the blacks in some countries that he referred to as repatriation^[1]. Harris stated that the proclamation of the amnesty became the core part of the wartime reconstruction^[2]. What the proclamation of amnesty did was to offer a presidential pardon the entire southern whites who were under a pledge of loyalty to the union and acknowledged elimination of slavery. Johannsen pointed out the fact that the only exceptional people who were omitted from this were the high ranking military officers as well as the confederate^[3]. In the states which had ten per cent of the men population taking oath was…