Chapter 16 Section 1

Question 1

How did the government try to solve key problems facing the nation after the war?

Answer 1

The government developed a plan for Reconstruction and set up the Freedmen’s Bureau to try to solve postwar problems.

Question 2

voluntary

Answer 2

not forced; done of one’s own free will

Question 3

resolve

Answer 3

to decide to solve

Question 4

amnesty

Answer 4

group pardon

Question 5

freedman

Answer 5

enslaved people who had been freed by the war

Question 6

What was Lincoln’s Ten Percent Plan?

Answer 6

Introduced in Dec. 1863, as soon as 10% of a state’s voters swore an oath of loyalty to the US, the voters could organize a new state government.

Question 7

What was the goal of Lincoln’s plan for Reconstruction?

Answer 7

to bind the wounds of war as quickly as possible

Question 8

What did the Wade-Davis Bill propose?

Answer 8

Half of the voters in each state had to swear loyalty to the Union; no Confederate volunteer could vote or hold office.

Question 9

What did the President want to accomplish?

Answer 9

The President hoped to win the loyalty of influential southerners to the Republican Party.

Question 10

What did Congress want to accomplish?

Answer 10

Congress wanted to prevent former Confederate leaders from regaining power.

Question 11

How did Lincoln’s plan for Reconstruction differ from that of the Radical Republicans in Congress?

Answer 11

His plan made it easier for southerners to rejoin the Union and offered amnesty to some former Confederates.

Question 12

How do you know that education was very important to newly freed slaves?

Answer 12

They traveled long distances to attend school and pooled their money to pay teachers.

Question 13

Would Radical Republicans support President Johnson?

Answer 13

Yes, because they thought he would take a hard line on Reconstruction.

Question 14

What was the the Freedmen’s Bureau?

Answer 14

It was a government agency to provide emergency relief and to establish schools, particularly for freedmen.

Question 15

What effect do you think the assassination of Lincoln would have on the nation?

Answer 15

It may have delayed the start of Reconstruction and dashed hopes for a lenient Reconstruction Plan.

Question 16

What happened at Ford’s Theatre in Washington on April 14, 1865?

Answer 16

President Lincoln was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth.

Question 17

Why did many people expect Johnson to take a hard line on Reconstruction?

Answer 17

Johnson expressed bitterness toward the Confederates.

Question 18

What problems faced the South at the end of the Civil War?

Answer 18

The South was in ruins and refugees needed food, shelter, and work.

Question 19

Why did the South have greater difficulty than the North in recovering from the Civil War?

Answer 19

Because of the vast destruction, the South had fewer resources to work with.

Question 20

How did Lincoln’s plan for Reconstruction differ from the Wade-Davis Bill?

Answer 20

Lincoln’s plan was more lenient. It required only 10% of voters to swear loyalty, and offered amnesty to Confederate fighters and supporters, except for leaders. Wade-Davis Bill required 50% of state’s voters to swear loyalty to the Union and denied political rights to anyone who volunteered to fight for the Confederacy.

Question 21

What problems were there for reuniting the nation in each plan?

Answer 21

Lincoln’s plan might make it easier for Confederates to regain control of the state governments; Congress’s plan might cause resentment.

Question 22

What did the Freedmen’s Bureau propose to do to help the freedmen?

Answer 22

It helped set up schools, find them jobs, and settle disputes.

Question 23

What did former Confederates have to do to get amnesty under Lincoln’s plan to rebuild the Union?

Answer 23

To receive pardon under Lincoln’s plan, they had to take the loyalty oath to the U.S.