Ch.17- Reconstruction

Question 0

What was Lincoln’s plan for the South?

Answer 0

10% Plan (1863)- how much of the population had to pledge support to the Union.

Question 1

What were the 3 goals for reconstructing the South?

Answer 1

1. Politics
2. Economy
3. Culture

Question 2

What was Congress’s plan for the South?

Answer 2

Wade-Davis Bill (or 50% Plan) (1864)

Question 3

Explain: free, but poor…or even free?

Answer 3

Used to describe the freed slaves situation. On the one hand they were free but had no other skills than working on a plantation and also had been no where else but the plantation. In some cases states did not even tell them they were free for a long time.

Question 4

Explain the doubt that congress had when Lincoln was assassinated and Andrew Johnson assumed the presidency.

Answer 4

Majority of congress were northern republicans and Johnson was:
1. Democrat
2. From the south
So congress thought he might be too loyal to the south.

Question 5

Was it a presidential or congressional led reconstruction?

Answer 5

Johnson wanted to run it but eventually congress takes over.

Question 6

Describe the radical republican’s agenda .

Answer 6

They wanted total equality for the freedmen.

Question 7

What were the main reconstruction amendments?

Answer 7

1. ) 13th Amendment (1865)- abolished slavery
2. ) 14th Amendment (1868)- citizenship equality
3. ) 15th Amendment (1870)- right to vote

Question 8

What was the Freedmen’s Bureau?

Answer 8

Established in 1865 and allowed some slaves to get land

Assisted in the transition from slavery to freedmen

Question 9

What were the Black Codes?

Answer 9

• Restricted movement of freedmen
• Vagrancy laws
• Employment limitations
• Economic sanctions

Question 10

How did it become a congressional reconstruction?

Answer 10

Republicans thought Johnson was being to lenient towards the South and impeached him. Then divided the South into military districts.

Question 11

The white southerners hated…?

Answer 11

• Carpetbaggers (northerners coming down to help the freedmen)
• Scalawags (southerners who helped freedmen)
• freedmen

Question 12

The hate of the northerners and freedmen brought what out if the South?

Answer 12

White resistance groups like:

• KKK
• Redeemers

Question 13

What was Black Agency?

Answer 13

Period in the reconstruction where blacks prospered and had some semblance of a normal life.

Question 14

When Ulysses S. Grant is elected president, what is The Grant Conundrum?

Answer 14

Southern reconciliation with guaranteed constitutional rights for all.

Question 15

What were the Force Acts?

Answer 15

Congress grants power to chase fins and arrest KKK members.

Question 16

What was the failure of the reconstruction?

Answer 16

• resentment from the North (south’s problem now)
• still rampart racism
• Supreme Court found the Force Acts unconstitutional

Question 17

What was the Compromise of 1877?

Answer 17

“The Failure of the Reconstruction”

In return for the northern republican candidate, Hayes, winning the north pulled their troops out of the South.

Question 18

What were the legacies of the reconstruction?

Answer 18

• blacks entered politics
• established churches
• community under repression within the dominant white community
• temporary radical transformation

Question 19

How long was the Reconstruction?

Answer 19

1865-1877