Unit Test: Reconstruction

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Radical Republicans, as Congressional Republicans --

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did not support slavery, wanted the South to be punished for the Civil War, wanted to quickly bring the South back into the Union, wanted to send Union troops to the South to protect the rights of freed Blacks.

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Why was Abraham Lincoln's Reconstruction Plan sometimes called the “10% Plan”?

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Before a Southern state could be readmitted to the Union, 10% of its voters had to pledge allegiance to the United States and support the abolition of slavery.

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Wade-Davis Bill—

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Stated that 50% of voters in Southern states had to pledge allegiance to the United States.

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What was a "Scalawag"?

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A term for Southern whites who supported Reconstruction.

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Freedmen's Bureau—

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Helped former enslaved people with education, employment, and housing.

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What was the Ku Klux Klan?

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Former Confederate soldiers terrorizing Black people in the South.

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How did sharecropping resemble the old plantation system?

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Freed Black people began working on plantations again for very little (if any) money.

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What are Black Codes?

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Laws that restricted the rights of free Black people in the South.

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How did Reconstruction affect the Southern economy?

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It caused economic decline and poverty due to the destruction that occurred during the war.

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Who is MOST LIKELY to have WRITTEN the poem above? Options: Former Confederate president Jefferson Davis, Former Union general Ulysses S. Grant, Thomas A. Wilkins, a carpet merchant from Connecticut, Frances Ellen Watkins, daughter of freed slaves.

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Frances Ellen Watkins, daughter of freed slaves.