Reconstruction

Question 1

The time period when the government was focused on REBUILDING and REUNITING the country after the Civil War

Answer 1

Reconstruction

Question 2

What was/were the goal(s) of Reconstruction after the Civil War?

Answer 2

End the war quickly and reunite the country.

Question 3

How did Lincoln’s assassination CHANGE what happened during Reconstruction?

Answer 3

Johnson basically kept the same policy, but wanted to humiliate the Southern elite.

Question 4

What was the 10% Plan?

Answer 4

If 10% of the people of a state pledged their allegiance and ratified the 13th amendment, they could form a state government, elect people to Congress, and fully participate in the Union again.

Question 5

Explain the 13th Amendment.

Answer 5

abolished slavery in the U.S.

Question 6

Explain the 14th Amendment.

Answer 6

gave citizenship to anyone born in the U.S., with the exception of Native Americans. Also gave equal protection under the law.

Question 7

Explain the 15th Amendment.

Answer 7

gave anyone who was a citizen, regardless of race, color, or previously being a slave, the right to vote, except for women.

Question 8

Explain at least three things that the Freedmen’s Bureau did. ALSO, tell what group(s) it helped.

Answer 8

provided food, clothing, education, medical care, and some protection to African Americans and poor White Southerners

Question 9

This person was president right after Abraham Lincoln. He did not have the support of Congress with his plan for Reconstruction.

Answer 9

Andrew Johnson

Question 10

A southern subversive group of businessmen, lawyers, judges, and politicians that intimidated black voters and tried to make sure African Americans were not granted their rights.

Answer 10

Ku Klux Klan (KKK)

Question 11

African Americans wanted to achieve freedom by…

Answer 11

reunite with families, form their own churches, become educated, and establish businesses

Question 12

What limits were placed on African Americans? (How were they held back?)

Answer 12

Black Codes limited new freedoms of African Americans

Question 13

What was the difference between sharecropping and working as a slave on a plantation?

Answer 13

with sharecropping, you could rent land and grow/ sell crops

with slavery, you could not do either

Question 14

Describe the conflict between President Johnson and the Radical Republicans.

Answer 14

see battles on Capital Hill flowchart

Question 15

What was Congressional Reconstruction and why was it imposed?

Answer 15

a policy that called for military occupation of southern states because of violence showed to the freedmen

Question 16

How were the economic rights ad independence of freedmen limited during Reconstruction?

Answer 16

they couldn’t receive their own land to work to better themselves

Question 17

What were black codes and why were they imposed?

Answer 17

laws that restricted the freedmen’s rights; they were imposed to threaten and intimidate them

Question 18

What were Jim Crow laws?

Answer 18

laws that enforced racial segregation

Question 19

What was the Compromise of 1877? How did it impact freedmen and Southerners?

Answer 19

agreed to support the election of the Republican candidate in exchange for removal of troops in the South; African Americans were abandoned by the government and Southern governments began passing laws to limit their rights

Question 20

What were some of the effects of Reconstruction on African Americans?

Answer 20

see Effects chart

Question 21

What were some of the effects of Reconstruction on the Southern elite?

Answer 21

see Effects chart

Question 22

What were some of the effects of Reconstruction on poor whites?

Answer 22

see Effects chart

Question 23

What were some of the effects of Reconstruction on Northerners?

Answer 23

see Effects chart