Reconstruction Notes Flashcards
What were the physical results of the Civil War?
A. 70% of Southern shipping industry destroyed
B. 9,000 miles of railroads destroyed
C. 35% of live stock gone
D. infrastructure reduced to rubble
What were the human costs of the war?
A. 260,000 southerners killed
B. 33% of Southern white men killed or wounded
C. 364,000 Northerners killed
D. 38,000 African Americans killed
What was the status of the African-Americans in the South after the war?
Free but no longer had basic necessities provided to them by slave owners
What were the effects for plantation owners?
Lose $3 billion in slaves and government seizes $100 million in abandoned property
How were poor white families affected by freed Americans-Americans?
They were competing with them for jobs
What was the major question surrounding the concept of Reconstruction?
What should they do with the South? Punish them or Pardon them?
What were the four steps to Lincoln’s plan he made before he was killed?
A. Pardon any Confederate who would take an oath of allegiance to the Union
B. No pardons for any Confederate government or military official or anyone who had killed African-American POWs
C.A state may hold a convention to create a new constitution after 10% of voters had sworn allegiance to the union
D. States may then hold elections and participate in the Union
What was the problem with Lincoln’s plan for African-Americans?
Did not provide voting rights for them
