Early Reconstruction

Question 1

Reconstruction?

Answer 1

Reconstruction was the task of rebuilding the former Confederate states and readmitting them to the Union

Question 2

Amnesty

Answer 2

Forgiveness for any crimes committed

Question 3

Lincoln’s Ten Percent Plan

Answer 3

Required voters in each Southern state to take an oath of loyalty to the Union. When 10 percent of the voters in a state had taken the oath, the state could form a new state government. The state also had to make a new constitution that banned slavery.

Question 4

Why were the Radical Republicans considered “radical”?

Answer 4

They were very powerful and had much influence on the Republican party that controls Congress

Question 5

Freedmen

Answer 5

Men who just got out of slavery

Question 6

Purpose of Freedmen’s Bureau (3)

Answer 6

Helped African Americans adjust to life after slavery, provided food, clothing, and medical care to poor Southerners, and helped people get their own land to farm or find work for fair pay

Question 7

John Wilkes Booth

Answer 7

Lincoln’s assassin

Question 8

Andrew Johnson

Answer 8

Vice President who became president after Lincoln’s death

Question 9

Johnson’s Reconstruction Plan

Answer 9

Gave amnesty to most Southerners who swore loyalty to the Union. However, high-ranking Confederates could only receive pardons if they appeal to the President

Question 10

13th Amendment

Answer 10

Freed all slaves in the U.S.