Chap. 17 Reconstruction Study Guide

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1 Chap. 17 Reconstruction Study Guide True/False Indicate whether the statement is true or false. If it is false, fix it so that it is true. 1. Congress accepted without question Abraham Lincoln s plan to rebuild the Union, but fought especially hard against Andrew Johnson s plan. 2. President Lincoln proposed a plan to readmit the southern states even before the Civil War ended. 3. The Black Codes greatly limited the rights and freedom of African Americans in northern as well as southern states. 4. The Ku Klux Klan was formed in response to the increasing number of African Americans taking office in the federal government, among other examples of the extension of civil rights to African Americans. 5. President Abraham Lincoln s Reconstruction plan called for the establishment of military districts in the South. 6. After the election of 1866, the Radical Republicans gained a majority in Congress and took control of Reconstruction. 7. After the Civil War the economy of the South was badly damaged and many banks and merchants went bankrupt. 8. In the election of 1868, Republican Ulysses S. Grant won the presidency with the help of African American votes. Matching Match each item with the correct statement below. a. sharecropping b. Poll tax c. Reconstruction Acts d. Civil Rights Act of 1866 e. Freedmen s Bureau 9. organization that provided assistance to all poor people living in the South 10. set of laws that divided the South into five districts under military control 11. farming system used in the South in which a worker farms the land and gives the landowner a portion of the crop as payment for rent 12. policy set forth by Redeemer governments in an effort to deny African Americans the right to vote 13. law passed by Congress that gave African Americans the same legal rights as white Americans

2 Short Answer 14. What was President Andrew Johnson s plan for wealthy southerners and former Confederate officials? 15. What restriction were placed on African Americans under the Black Codes? 16. Why was the Ku Klux Klan able to obtain a great deal of power in the South before 1870? 17. Why did the House of Representatives vote to impeach President Johnson in 1868? 18. How did the Reconstruction Acts, passed by Congress in March 1867, affected the makeup of the southern states? 19. What were the Black Codes? 20. Why did Congress pass a law limiting President Johnson s powers in 1868? 21. Why did President Johnson decided to reject the Freedmen s Bureau? 22. The main goal of Reconstruction was to What right of African American did the Fifteenth Amendment protect? 24. What did the verdict in Plessy v. Ferguson establish? 25. What was the purpose of the Jim Crow laws? 26. Who were the Redeemers? 27. The formation of the Ku Klux Klan inspired Congress to what? 28. How did state legislatures in the South begin to change as a result of Reconstruction?

3 29. In 1872, what change in southern state governments brought about the end of many Reconstruction reforms? 30. How did President Johnson s administration go about setting up new southern governments? 31. Why did the Black Codes required that African Americans sign work contracts? 32. How did the Freedmen s Bureau affect education for freed slaves in the South? 33. Hiram Revels was the first African American to hold which post? 34. How did Radical Republicans increased their influence in Congress? 35. How did the sharecropping system limit opportunities for African Americans to own farms and property? 36. What were the direct effects of the Compromise of 1877? 37. Why was the Freedmen s Bureau established? 38. What did ratification of the Thirteenth Amendment mean for African Americans? 39. Why did many Republican Congress members disagreed with Lincoln s Ten Percent Plan for Reconstruction? 40. Why did Southern governments passed the Black Codes? 41. How did the Wade-Davis Bill differ from Lincoln s Ten Percent Plan? 42. Jobs in which industry offered many southern workers an alternative to farming in the late 1800s? 43. How did Reconstruction affect the social structure of the South?

4 44. Why did Republicans proposed the Fourteenth Amendment before southern states were readmitted to the Union? 45. What were the reasons behind the creation of the Ku Klux Klan in 1866? 46. Why did Southern governments believe they were justified in passing the Black Codes? 47. The Fourteenth Amendment defined who could be considered a U.S. citizen. Which group did the Amendment exclude from U.S. citizenship? 48. How did members of the Ku Klux Klan demonstrate their anger towards African Americans? 49. Why did congressional Republicans think that passing the Fifteenth Amendment would help protect their Reconstruction plan? 50. Whom did white southerners call carpetbaggers? 51. What was Lincoln s main vision for Reconstruction?

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