Impact of Reconstruction

What was a political effect of people in the states where war was fought?

• Those con the Confederate side lost the war so they had to obey the federal government..
• Women 's bread riots and problems at home convinced some husbands to leave the army
• Destruction of Sherman's march

What was a social effect of the Civil War on the nation as a whole?

• Much of the South had to be rebuilt
• Federal government grew larger and stronger
• Deaths of family members and destruction was heavy

What was a social effect of the Civil War on slave holders?

• Loss of their idea of state's rights
• After the war, they feared that freedmen would rise up against them in violence
• Loss of their slaves, homes, farms, businesses, wealth and male relatives

What was a political effect on women after the Civil War?

• Women had to take over business, and farms without training
• Many women lost husbands, sons and other male relatives
• Women's rights movment became more popular and widespread

What was a economical effect from the Civil War for African Americans?

• Freedom from slavery
• People looked for their family members all over the South
• Freddman's Bureau gave equal amounts of housing, food and farming supplies to blacks and whites.

What group gained control of Congress after Lincoln's assassination?

• Southern Democrats
• Former Confederates
• Radical Republicans
• Communists 

Who was the first African American to serve in the US senate?

• Frederick Douglass
• Harriet Tubman
• Hiram Revels
• Barack Obama

Hayes agreed to remove federal troops from the South in order to win the Presidency in the Election of 1876. This--

• started Reconstruction
• got him impeached
• made Southern Democrats angry
• ended Reconstruction

Many southern states passed laws after the Compromise of 1877.  The laws that legalized the segregation of whites and blacks were called--

• Jim Crow Laws
• Black Codes
• Freedman's Bureau
• Reconstruction

How did the 14th amendment overrule the Dred Scott decision?

• It abolished slavery
• It said slaves could vote
• It protected African Americans as equal citizens
• It said that African Americans could move north