Reconstruction and Its Effects

The period of rebuilding the nation after the Civil War is called __

​ (a)   : Republicans that wanted to destroy the political power of former slaveholders

​ (b)   : White Southerners who joined the Republican Party

​ (c)   : System in which landowners gave a few acres of land to farm workers in return for a portion of their crops

​ ​ (d)   : Northerners who moved to the South after the war

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• Radicals
• scalawag
• Sharecropping
• Carpetbagger

What is all that the Freedman's Bureau did?

• Gave food and clothing to former slaves

• Set up hospitals and schools

• Gave former slaves 50 acres

• Made 10 former slaves US Senators

• Allowed to small business loans

​ (a)   Amendment: guaranteed citizenship for African Americans

​ (b)   Amendment: guaranteed the right to vote for African Americans

​ (c)   : stated that no state could re-enter the Union unless it met a few conditions

​ (d)   : laws to stop the violence from the KKK

​ ​ (e)   : States could not enact laws that discriminated against African Americans

• 14th
• 15th
• Reconstruction Act of 1867
• Enforcement Acts
• Civil Rights Act of 1866

​ (a)   became president after the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. He had clashes with ​ (b)   and was ​ (c)   . He avoided conviction by ​ (d)   vote.

• Andrew Johnson
• Congress
• impeached
• 1
• 5
• removed
• Ulysses S. Grant

​ (a)   : Civil War hero that won the 1868 election in part because of the African-Americans that voted in the South

• Ulysses S. Grant
• Andrew Johnson
• Rutherford B. Hayes
• Abraham Lincoln

​ (a)   : 16h US President

​ (b)   : 17th US President

​ (c)   : 18th US President

​ (d)   : 19th US President

​ (e)   : 20th US President

• Abraham Lincoln
• Andrew Johnson
• Ulysses S. Grant
• Rutherford B. Hayes
• James A. Garfield

Three groups of Republicans in the South during Reconstruction

​ (a)   : white Southerners; small farmers who did not want wealthy planters to regain power

​ (b)   : Northerners who had moved South

​ (c)   : group that had voting rights for the first time but had resistance for equality

• Scalawags
• Carpetbaggers
• African Americans

What did the South face terrible economic conditions after the war?

• Many men had died

• People lost their investments

• Farms were ruined

• over population

• wise leaders

What did state government do to help the Southern economy?

• began public works programs to repaid the physical damage

• social services provided

• land was taken and distributed evenly

• everyone was allowed to vote