Module 9

What were the main differences between Lincoln’s Ten Percent plan and the Radical Republican plan?

• The Radical Republicans wanted harsher treatment of the South for leaving the Union and starting the war.

• Limit African Americans’ rights and movement

• Poverty and Discrimination 

• Tried to remove the Secretary of War and he ignored the Tenure of Office Act

List 2 reasons for the Black Codes

• Limit African Americans’ rights and movement

• Poverty and Discrimination 

• Accepted the right for them to vote, but created a poll tax

List 3 parts of the black codes.

• taking advantage of the southern people

• voting

• learning to read

• renting land

Who was Governor Brownlow? What side of the Civil War did he support? What did his enemies call him?

• TN governor who supported the confederate

• TN governor who supported the union

• scalawag

• carpetbagger

 What did the Freedmen’s Bureau provide to the newly freed slaves?

• educational opportunities

• food

• clothing

• medicine

What were the long term effects of Reconstruction on black Americans?