Module 19 Lessons 1-3 slides

Question 1

What did the Ten Percent Plan require?

Answer 1

Southerners had to swear allegiance to the Union and agree that slavery was illegal.

Question 2

What could happen after the 10 percent of the voters made the pledges for that state?

Answer 2

New state governments could be formed

Question 3

Who did the Ten Percent Plan affect?

Answer 3

the Confederace/ Southerns

Question 4

What did the states that secede have to do to get back into the Union?

Answer 4

To be readmitted, a state had to ban
slavery, and a majority of adult males had to take a loyalty oath.

Question 5

Who tried to pass the Wade Davis bill and why?

Answer 5

The Republicans
Congressional Republicans’ alternative to Lincoln’s plan

Question 6

What did the Wade-Davis bill say for voting or holding office

Answer 6

Only southerners who swore they had
never supported the Confederacy could
vote or hold office.

Question 7

Did President Lincoln sign the Wade-Davis Bill?

Answer 7

President Lincoln refused to sign the bill into law.

Question 8

Who agreed on abolishing slavery after the Civil War?

Answer 8

Republicans

Question 9

What did the Thirteenth Amendment do?

Answer 9

Made slavery illegal in the United States

Question 10

What did African Americans do now that they were free?

Answer 10

-Married couples could legalize their marriages.

-Families searched for Family members

-Most Moved

They basically started there lives

Question 11

What did the Freedmen’s Bureau do? And Who did it help?

Answer 11

Newly freed African Americans
-Provided relief for freed people and poor people in the South

-Distributed food and provided education and legal help

Question 12

Where was President Lincoln shot at and when did he die?

Answer 12

At the theater and died the next morning

Question 13

Who became president since President Lincoln was died?

Answer 13

Vice President Andrew Johnson

Question 14

What did President Johnson do when he got in office for the reconstruction?

Answer 14

Johnson appointed a temporary governor to lead each state.

States were required to revise their constitutions and declare that secession was illegal.

Question 15

What did the Confederacy have to do after President Johnson got into office for the reconstruction?

Answer 15

-States had to ratify the Thirteenth Amendment

Question 16

Was everyone in the Union happy about the Confederacy joining the union again?

Answer 16

Congress refused to accept them back into the Union

Question 17

What did Black Codes do or say? What did African Americans do in return?

Answer 17

Black Codes, laws that greatly limited the freedom of African Americans.

African Americans organized to oppose the codes.

Question 18

Who started to create Black Code laws?

Answer 18

The new legislatures of the South

Question 19

What was the black codes allowing that was just like slavery?

Answer 19

The codes created working conditions that resembled slavery for African Americans.

Question 20

Who were not happy with the black code laws? What did they believe about the South because of the Codes?

Answer 20

Republicans they believed that the South was returning to its old ways.

Question 21

What did the Radical Republicans want?

Answer 21

Wanted the federal government to step in. They wanted more federal control over Reconstruction to make sure southern leader did not remain loyal to the old Confederate principles

Question 22

Who is an example of an Radical Republican?

Answer 22

Pennsylvania’s Thaddeus Stevens

Question 23

What did the Fourteeth Amendment do?

Answer 23

Ensured citizenship for African Americans

Question 24

Who passed the Civil Rights of 1866?

Answer 24

Congress

Question 25

What happened during the process of passing the Civil Rights Act of 1866?

Answer 25

President Johnson vetoed it, Congress overrode the veto. It also proposed the Fourteenth Amendment to secure these protections

Question 26

What Amendments was a key issue in the 1866 congressional elections?

Answer 26

The Fourteenth Amendment

Question 27

What did the Fourteenth Amendment say?

Answer 27

Defined all people born or naturalized in United States, except Native Americans, as citizens

Guaranteed citizens equal protection under the law

Said states could not “deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of
law”

Banned many former Confederate officials from holding state or federal offices

Made state laws subject to federal court review

Gave Congress the power to pass any laws needed to enforce the amendment

Question 28

In the elections of 1866 gave Republicans a two-thirds majority in what places in Congress?

Answer 28

House of Representatives and Senate

Question 29

What did the Republicans pass once they got into Congress?

Answer 29

First several Reconstruction Acts

Question 30

Who established the Freedman’s Bureau? Also what did the Freedman’s Bureau establish?

Answer 30

Congress
Established 3,000 schools and universities