U2L1 Early Reconstruction

Question 1

What economic problems did the North face after the Civil War?

Answer 1

Some 800,000 returning Union soldiers needed jobs

Question 2

How long did it take for the Northerners to solve their economic problems?

Answer 2

The northerners economic disruption was only temporary. Boom times quickly retuned.

Question 3

What political problems did the North face after the Civil War?

Answer 3

There was a disagreement about how to bring the South back into the Union and what to do with newly freed African Americans.

Question 4

What problems did the Southern soldiers face during the Civil war?

Answer 4

Confederate soldiers had little chance of taking up where they had left off. In some areas, every house, barn, and bridge had been turned into heaps of scrap.

Question 5

What problems did the Southern financial system face?

Answer 5

After the was Confederate money was worthless, people who loaned money to the confederacy were never repaid. Many Southern banks closed, and depositors lost their savings.

Question 6

Almost overnight, there was a new class of nearly four million people known as _______ – men and woman who had been enslave.

Answer 6

freedmen

Question 7

What was the era following the Civil War called?

Answer 7

Reconstruction, or rebuilding the South

Question 8

Who made the Ten Percent Plan? When was it made?

Answer 8

As early as 1863, Lincoln outlined the Ten Precent Plan for reconstruction

Question 9

What did the Ten Percent Plan outline?

Answer 9

A southern state could form a governmental after 10% of its voters swore on oath of loyalty to the U.S. The new government has to abolish slavery. Voters could then elect members of Congress and take part in the national government once again.

Question 10

What did Lincoln’s plan (10% plan) offer?

Answer 10

Amnesty, or a government pardon, of Confederate who swore loyalty to the Union. Amnesty would not apply to the former leaders of the Confederacy.

Question 11

What did most Republicans think of the Ten Percent plan?

Answer 11

They thought it was too generous

Question 12

What plan bill did Republicans pass to rival the Ten Precent plan?

Answer 12

The Wade-Davis Bill

Question 13

What did the Wade-Davis Bill outline?

Answer 13

It required a majority of white men in each southern state to swear loyalty to the Union. It also denied the right to vote to or hold office to anyone volunteered to fight for the Confederacy.

Question 14

Why didn’t Lincoln sign the Wade-Davis Bill?

Answer 14

He felt is was too harsh

Question 15

When was the Freedmen’s Bureau Bill passed?

Answer 15

One month before Lee’s surrender

Question 16

What did the Freedmen’s Bureau Bill do?

Answer 16

Helps former slaves. It gave food, clothing, and even tried to find jobs for former slaves. It also helped poor whites. It provided medical care for more than one million people. One of its most important tasks was to set up schools for freedmen.

Question 17

True or False.

By the 1870s, African Americans were teaching in grade schools throughout the South

Answer 17

True

Question 18

What date did Lincoln die? Where?

Answer 18

On April 14, 1865, he died in a theater 🎭

Question 19

Who killed Lincoln?

Answer 19

John Wilkes Booth

Question 20

What happened to John Wilkes Booth?

Answer 20

He had captured and killed in a barn 🐮🤡

Question 21

Why was Lincoln’s assassination significant?

Answer 21

It was the first president assassination in the U.S.

Question 22

What group was Booth apart of? What happened to them?

Answer 22

Booth was part of a group of 20 conspirators who long been plotting to kill Lincoln, Vice President Andrew Jackson, and Secretary of State William Seward. Four of Booth’s co-conspirators were hanged for their crimes including Mary Surratt, the first woman executed by the U.S.

Question 23

Who became president after Lincoln’s death?

Answer 23

Former Vice President Andrew Johnson was now president

Question 24

Andrew Jackson told all states to ratify which amendment?

Answer 24

The thirteenth amendment, which banned slavery throughout the nation.

Question 25

What economic problems did the North face after the Civil War?

Answer 25

Returning soldiers needed jobs, and the government canceled war orders, leading to layoffs in factories.

Question 26

Describe the state of the South’s financial system after the war.

Answer 26

After the war, Confederate money was worthless. Loans went unpaid and many southern banks had to close.

Question 27

What is the major difference between the Ten Percent Plan and the Wade-Davis Bill?

Answer 27

The Ten Percent Plan was Lincoln’s plan that allowed a southern state to form a new government after 10 percent of its voters swore an oath of loyalty to the United States. The Wade-Davis Bill was the Republicans’ plan for Reconstruction. It required a majority of white men in each southern state to swear an oath of loyalty to the United States before that state could set up a new government.

Question 28

What were the highlights of Johnson’s Reconstruction plan?

Answer 28

A majority of voters in each southern state would have to pledge loyalty to the United States. The states also had to ratify the Thirteenth Amendment.

Question 29

What was the impact of the Thirteenth Amendment on the South?

Answer 29

Without slavery, the South’s social and economic systems changed. In addition, the amendment overturned states’ laws and Supreme Court decisions, which gave Congress the power to intervene.

Question 30

Why was there tension between Congress and President Johnson when the new Congress met?

Answer 30

The primarily Republican Congress were upset that some of the new state governments in the South allowed former Confederate officers to be elected to high offices. Also, the new southern governments did not allow African Americans to vote.

Question 31

How did the South’s economic and social problems after the war contribute to its political problems?

Answer 31

With many newly freed men and new politicians, it was unclear how the would run state governments

Question 32

Why did Booth assassinate President Lincoln?

Answer 32

Booth was angry about the Confederate defeat

Question 33

How did the Republican Congress feel about Andrew Johnson’s political decisions in the wake of President Lincoln’s assassination?

Answer 33

Johnson was too lenient on the Confederate leaders.