Monday, June 6, 2011

Presidential Reconstruction - Artist Statement by Colleen Whalen

I worked on my quilt square with Maya. This quilt square was harder than the others but I am glad I did it. We did our quilt square on Presidential Reconstruction. We chose to do the Presidential Reconstruction Plan because it sounded interesting. President Johnson’s Plan was to have the South write a new state constitution, ratify the 13th Amendment, and the South had to get new government officials because the North didn’t want former Rebels to be in charge. On the square, we put the Reconstruction Plan between President Lincoln and Johnson to show the connection between them. However, Johnson’s plan ended up very different from Lincoln’s because Johnson did not help former slaves like Lincoln would have. He also did many things to help wealthy southerners, which is not what Lincoln wanted.

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