Who was the president that went into office after the assassination of the previous president and gave his State the Union Address when the American Civil War had ended?
1865 State of the Union Address The 1865 State of the Union Address was written by the 17th President of the United States, Andrew Johnson. It was presented to the United States Congress on Monday, December 4, 1865. He stated, "Our thoughts next revert to the death of the late President by an act of parricidal treason. The grief of the nation is still fresh. It finds some solace in the consideration that he lived to enjoy the highest proof of its confidence by entering on the renewed term of the Chief Magistracy to which he had been elected; that he brought the civil war substantially to a close; that his loss was deplored in all parts of the Union, and that foreign nations have rendered justice to his memory." The American Civil War had ended, and now it was time for the Reconstruction era to begin.
Ten percent plan The ten percent plan, formally the Proclamation of Amnesty and Reconstruction (13 Stat. 737 ), was a United States presidential proclamation and executive order issued on December 8, 1863, by President Abraham Lincoln, during the American Civil War. By this point in the war (nearly three years in), the Union Army had pushed the Confederate Army out of several regions of the South, and some rebellious states were ready to have their governments rebuilt. Lincoln's plan established a process through this postwar reconstruction could come about.