1. The document discusses the three Reconstruction plans put forth after the Civil War: Lincoln's 10% plan, the Radical Republican's plan, and Johnson's presidential reconstruction plan.
2. It examines the political and economic status of freed slaves during Reconstruction, including the establishment of Black Codes and the Freedmen's Bureau.
3. Congress took control of Reconstruction in 1867, dividing the South into military districts and requiring new state constitutions that allowed universal male suffrage and ratified the 14th Amendment.
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