Topic 9 Reconstruction

How would a Radical Republican describe Johnson's Reconstruction Plan?

• Too difficult to implement

• Too lenient

• Too harsh

• Fair

What industry did the South depend on MOST before, during, and after the war?

• Agriculture (farming)

• Iron production

• transportation

• Construction

Match the following

• Limited African American voting rights

• Black Codes

• Provided education to people of all ages

• Freedmen's Bureau

• Extended the right to vote to African American male citizens

• Fifteenth Amendment

• Defined citizenship as people born in the USA, or naturalized

• Fourteenth Amendment

• outlawed slavery and involuntary servitude

• Thirteenth Amendment

Scalawags were a group

• of Southerners who supported Reconstruction

• of Northerners who supported Reconstruction

• African Americans who could vote

• white conservatives who supported Black Codes

Many southerners disagreed with Reconstruction because

• failed to end the war

• failed to provide an education to freedmen

• gave Congress too much control over the South

• made it too difficult to re enter the Union

What happened AFTER the 15th Amendment was passed?

• African Americans could vote freely in all elections

• The amendment allowed women to vote

• New methods were found to prevent African Americans from voting

• Reconstruction was complete

In the area of ________ Reconstruction had its most positive impact.

What role did carpetbaggers play during Reconstruction?

• They were Northern Republicans who came to the South to take advantage of the South

• The were a white conservative group

• They were Southerners who supported Reconstruction

• They voted to end Reconstruction

Who held this view: It would be easier to consider that the Confederacy had never seceded.

• Johnson

• Lincoln

• Hiram Revels

• Thaddeus Stevens

Where had most of the battles taken place during the Civil War?

• The North

• The South