1865-1877 Reconstruction - Rebuilding the Nation

What does Reconstruction mean?

• Putting the country back together

• Rebuilding the White House

• Rebuilding the U.S. government

• Punishing the South for seceding

President Lincoln worked on a plan in 1863 known as the Proclamation of Amnesty and Reconstruction, also known as the 10% Plan. Which of the following was part of his plan?

• Ten percent of Confederate soldiers could never re-join the Union.
• Ten percent of plantation owners would be sent away to other countries.
• Freedmen would become the owners of ten percent of former plantations.
• A southern state would be allowed to rejoin the Union once 10 percent of its voters pledged allegiance to the Union.

What did Abraham Lincoln's 1863 Proclamation of Amnesty and Reconstruction focus on?

• punishing the South
• giving African Americans Constitutional Amendments that guaranteed voting rights
• Southern states proving their loyalty to the Union after the war
• preserving the Union instead of punishing the South

What did President Abraham Lincoln's 1863 plan for Reconstruction of the South of Proclamation of Amnesty and Reconstruction do?

• It mostly focused on rebuilding roads and bridges.
• There was less focus on punishing the South than other plans.
• There was more focus on punishing the South than other plans.
• It mainly intended to increase the conflict between North and South.

How did many Republicans react to Lincoln's Plan?

• They agreed with it completely.
• They disliked it and came up with their own plan.
• They called for a special meeting to discuss it.
• Ten percent of them agreed with it.

What did Radical Republicans want to accomplish in Reconstruction?

• They wanted punishment for Union military officers.
• They wanted punishment for Confederate leaders.
• They wanted to reinstate the practice of slavery.
• They wanted to secede from the Union.

What did President Lincoln think about the Wade-Davis bill of 1864?

• It was too easy on the South because it only required 10 percent of southerners to take an oath of loyalty to the Union.
• It was too harsh on the South because it required 50 percent of southerners to take an oath of loyalty to the Union.
• It was a perfect way to reunite the North and South.
• It needed to be renamed the "Davis-Wade" bill, to put the names in alphabetical order.

What did Lincoln do with the Wade-Davis bill?

• He signed it into law.
• He pocket-vetoed it.
• He asked for Congress to make some changes to it then he agreed to sign it.
• He forgot to sign it and it became law.

The 13th Amendment of 1865

• banned slavery
• granted voting rights
• granted citizenship and equal protection
• restored Confederate rights

The Civil War ended on April 9, 1865.President Lincoln ____. Check all that apply.

• was shot at Ford's Theatre in Washington, DC
• died six days after the war ended
• died on on April 15, 1865
• never got to serve his second term in office