Reconstruction Unit Study Guide
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1. The period after the Civil War, when southern states rejoined the Union is known as
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2. These were laws that denied African American many civil rights
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3. Northerners who traveled to the South after the war to help Southerners in need:
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4. Southerners supporting Reconstruction policies:
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5. What were the aims (goals) of Abraham Lincoln:
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6. What were the aims (goals) of Vice President Andrew Johnson:
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7. Explain why Reconstruction policy changed.
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8. In your own words, explain what the 13th amendment means:
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9. In your own words, explain what the 14th amendment means:
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10. In your own words, explain what the 15th amendment means:
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11. Most freedmen immediately migrated to the North and West after the Civil War.
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12.General Sherman’s “forty acres and a mule” solved African Americans land and job problems.
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13. African Americans voted and held elective office during Reconstruction.
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14. What effect did Reconstruction have on African Americans? Be sure to tell about the way
Reconstruction changed the different aspects of their lives.
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15. Which Federal agency was set up in 1865 to provide food, schools, and medical care to freed
slaves and poor southern whites?
16. Southern planters found a new way to work their land. This new way was called
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17. This discriminatory group formed during the 1860’s to terrorize African Americans.
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18. The separation of different races (blacks and whites) is called ___________________________.
19. This happened to Abraham Lincoln. ____________________________________________________
20. The president that followed Abraham Lincoln was _________________________________.
21. Voting rules including reading tests, grandfather clauses and poll taxes limited the
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22. Compare and Contrast Scalawags and Carpetbaggers.
Scalawags
23. Which President was impeached?
Same
Carpetbaggers
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24. This was when the Supreme Court ruled that “separate but equal” was acceptable.
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25. This means to set free, and southern African Americans were granted this by Lincoln.
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Find out what happened to Abraham Lincoln –tell the Who, What, When, Where, and Why.
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