Our Reconstruction Plan
Attorney General
Some Requirements for states to be reinstated into the Union:
Some Requirements for states to be reinstated into the Union:
- All States had to ratify the 13th, 14th, and 15th amendment
- 1/3 of the population has to swear allegiance to the Union
- All states must allow Union soldiers to occupy their cities and countryside for a maximum of 12 years.
- All states must accept taxation and laws unless all former Confederate states send a formal petition to the government for change. If this is done, than the laws will be reviewed and changed accordingly.
Secretary of Agriculture
We can build many cotton farms and tobacco farms because the South solely focused on the production and farming of cotton and tobacco. Northerners can help by going to the South and help in the reconstruction of farms. People can work at the farms for payed labor, so the farm owner doesn't have to harvest all the crops on their own.
- If a farmer has workers he can pay them after all the crops are produced and harvested.
- If a farmer has rented land he will be able to purchase the land from the landowner.
- A farmer can pay the landowner the money for the rent whenever he wants to.
- Freedmen will be paid the same amount of money as if they were American.
We can build many cotton farms and tobacco farms because the South solely focused on the production and farming of cotton and tobacco. Northerners can help by going to the South and help in the reconstruction of farms. People can work at the farms for payed labor, so the farm owner doesn't have to harvest all the crops on their own.
Secretary of Defense
TO ENSURE THE SAFETY OF CITIZENS the Department of Defense has decided to enact the Military Reconstruction act.This act, though President Jackson thinks otherwise, will rebuild the Southern governments ,as well as enforce that all Blacks have rights. With these acts we will divide the south into 5 different districts each under a major general who has the power to arrest any traitors.
Citizens will have to pertain to the laws enacted, colored or not. There will be no more slavery and African Americans must now be treated like equals from now on, they are now free citizens with the right to vote. If anyone misuses or disobeys these laws will be subject to punishment, such as a fine or imprisonment.
TO ENSURE THE SAFETY OF CITIZENS the Department of Defense has decided to enact the Military Reconstruction act.This act, though President Jackson thinks otherwise, will rebuild the Southern governments ,as well as enforce that all Blacks have rights. With these acts we will divide the south into 5 different districts each under a major general who has the power to arrest any traitors.
Citizens will have to pertain to the laws enacted, colored or not. There will be no more slavery and African Americans must now be treated like equals from now on, they are now free citizens with the right to vote. If anyone misuses or disobeys these laws will be subject to punishment, such as a fine or imprisonment.
Secretary of Housing and Development
To solve the problem of discrimination, I plan to have suggested city layouts for new cities that segregate the black's and the white's homes with intermingled shopping areas in between. This would help because then the blacks would not have to worry about whites bothering them in their own households. The intermingled shopping areas are to gradually combine the cultures of the blacks and the whites so they will eventually accept each other. The homes will be similar to modern day apartment buildings.
To solve the problem of discrimination, I plan to have suggested city layouts for new cities that segregate the black's and the white's homes with intermingled shopping areas in between. This would help because then the blacks would not have to worry about whites bothering them in their own households. The intermingled shopping areas are to gradually combine the cultures of the blacks and the whites so they will eventually accept each other. The homes will be similar to modern day apartment buildings.
Secretary of Labor
Policies on Freedmen
First we will give them a basic education and then suggest jobs with familiar concepts, or guarantee them a job (police, fire dep. library, bank, etc.) to get them started. If we want to get the freedmen to be more efficient, we have to treat them like whites. If we give those people who nearly killed themselves with labor, less respect, there is no doubt that they are going to rebel. If we give them more respect and a wage as high as a white's, they are going to be fond of us, and they will work more efficiently.
Policies on State Cooperation
The South could send natural resources (timber) and agricultural goods (crops), while the Northerners can use these resources to make manufacturing goods. This system of trading goods back and forth will hopefully create a beneficial relationship to accelerate reconstruction.
Policies on Freedmen
First we will give them a basic education and then suggest jobs with familiar concepts, or guarantee them a job (police, fire dep. library, bank, etc.) to get them started. If we want to get the freedmen to be more efficient, we have to treat them like whites. If we give those people who nearly killed themselves with labor, less respect, there is no doubt that they are going to rebel. If we give them more respect and a wage as high as a white's, they are going to be fond of us, and they will work more efficiently.
Policies on State Cooperation
The South could send natural resources (timber) and agricultural goods (crops), while the Northerners can use these resources to make manufacturing goods. This system of trading goods back and forth will hopefully create a beneficial relationship to accelerate reconstruction.
Secretary of Veterans Affair
We will help the veterans of the wars of the United States of America with jobs, liberties, rights, and excepting the world that they come home to.This is all important because men and women of the United States who fought and came home victorious, who did what we would not, deserve the welcome and privileges of coming home to their country, to keep them equal with the modern population instead of shunned and giving them the respect they deserve. Those who kissed their families goodbye and were alone through hellfire and brimstone, without a friendly face for comfort on the hellish plain of the battlefield. They deserve the respect of our fellow citizens, and we are here for them.
We will help the veterans of the wars of the United States of America with jobs, liberties, rights, and excepting the world that they come home to.This is all important because men and women of the United States who fought and came home victorious, who did what we would not, deserve the welcome and privileges of coming home to their country, to keep them equal with the modern population instead of shunned and giving them the respect they deserve. Those who kissed their families goodbye and were alone through hellfire and brimstone, without a friendly face for comfort on the hellish plain of the battlefield. They deserve the respect of our fellow citizens, and we are here for them.