Reconstruction

The goals/aims of Reconstruction were different for different groups of Americans:

President Andrew Johnson

• To end the war as quickly as possible

• to humiliate the Southern Elite

• reunite with families

1st assistance program to help ALL people in the South who needed it

• Radical Republicans

• Ku Klux Klan

• Freedman's Bureau

_____________a period of rebuilding after the Civil War,

during which the Southern states rejoined the Union.

• Reconstruction

• Sharecropping

• Slavery

Johnson’s Plan to humiliate the southern elite:

Check all that apply

• Required wealthy land owners to ask for presidential

  pardon

• Allowed southern states to pass Black Codes.

• form new state governments.

• formed the Freedman's Bureau

The goals/aims of Reconstruction were different for different groups of Americans:

Abraham Lincoln

• To humiliate the Southern Elite

• Preserve the union & end the civil war as quickly as possible

• He didn't want anything to change

Which of the following were other economic effects?

Check ALL that apply

• sharecropping

• Most Northerners and Southerners wanted to reestablish a labor system of high productivity for little cost

• Most landowners continued to own their land and be the social “elite” of the South. They had economic control over the sharecroppers.

Which of the following is an economic effect on the Southern Elite?

• Some were unable to pay taxes, so they lost their land

• a political voice for the first time

• cooperated with the Republican government

_______________in exchange for the right to work the land, poor whites and African Americans would be given a share of the crop they grew.

• Farming

• Voting

• Sharecropping

Which of the following is an economic effect on poor whites?

• They had economic control over the sharecroppers.

• regained political control

• remained in a position of social inferiority by the Southern Elite

Poor whites were called ______

• Carpetbaggers

• Scalawags

• Freed men