HISTORY 3
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- Contrast the terms of Lincoln′s program of Reconstruction with Johnson′s Program
The reconstruction program for both Lincoln and Johnson different in different ways. Firstly, according to Lincoln’s program, all the confederation officers and military leaders where momentarily omitted from the plan but on Johnson’s reconstruction program pardon was not given to high Confederate officials and military leaders if someone among them was found owning property worth $20,000 (Davis, 2016). Secondly, in Lincoln’s reconstruction program, he promised and guaranteed to protect the property of the southern people, but he never assured them that he would protect their slaves (McCrary, 2015). However, according to Johnson’s program, he forbade all Radical Republican efforts to dissolve the plantation system, restructured the southern economy, and safeguarded the civil rights of backs.
- What were the advantages and disadvantages of sharecropping to black laborers? To white landowners?
Notably, he sharecropping is a method that began in Georgia and the southern part of American in 1865 after the Civil War ended (Bartlett, 2016). There advantages and disadvantages of sharecropping to both the black laborers and white landowners. The first advantage that the black laborers had is that unlike the slavery system, they were never forced to work until exhaustion and also they were never supervised. The second advantage is that the white landowners used to get money by allowing African American to rent their farms. On the other hand, the first disadvantage to the black laborers is that when the rains were not enough, the harvest and money would be low making the laborers to pay all to the white landowners thus having nothing to save. The second disadvantage to the white landowners is that there was no initial upfront payment from the lack of laborers; they only had to wait until the crops are mature, harvested and sold.
References
Bartlett, J. T. (2016). Uncovering the hidden history of African-American cooperatives. Journal of Cultural Economy, 9(6), 626-629.
Davis, L. (2016). Andrew Johnson: the Unique One. WCDS History Essays, vol. 2: the Civil War Era, 59.
McCrary, P. (2015). Abraham Lincoln and Reconstruction: The Louisiana Experiment (Vol. 1407). Princeton University Press.