P 130-131, “The election of 1864”-“The war ends”
1. Who was Abraham Lincoln’s Vice President after the election of 1864?
2. Draw a representation of Sherman’s March to the Sea in the box below.
3. List four essential events that end the American Civil War
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b.
c.
d. .
Section 3 “Reconstruction” (p 132)
PRESIDENTIAL RECONSTRUCTION
1. What was Lincoln’s plan for rebuilding the South (Presidential
Reconstruction)?
a. Proclamation of Amnesty & Reconstruction:
b. Ten-Percent Plan:
2. Define “Reconstruction.”
3. What would be required of southern states to be readmitted to the union if
the Wade-Davis Bill had passed?
4. What did President Johnson want wealthy southerners to do in order to
enter back into the Union?
CONGRESSIONAL RECONSTRUCTION
1. Define “Black Codes.”
2. How did the Ku Klux Klan impact Reconstruction in the South?
3. How did the “Radical Republicans” want to reconstruct the South?
4. Define the following terms in the chart below:
Freedman’s Bureau
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8.
Civil Rights Act of 1866
Complete a Frayer Chart for the “Fourteenth Amendment.”
Describe how the “Reconstruction Acts” set a new path for Reconstruction.
How did the Tenure of Office Act lead to President Johnson’s impeachment?
Complete the following Venn diagram
Presidential
Reconstruction
Congressional
Reconstruction
REPUBLICANS IN CHARGE
1. Who became President after Andrew Johnson?
2. Write a brief letter to a friend in the North or the South describing the
Fifteenth Amendment and your feeling on it.
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3. Create two fictional characters that exhibit the historical traits of a
“scalawag” and a “carpetbagger.”
4. Create a sign advertising the repeal of the Black Codes using specific
rights African-Americans achieved.
5. Match the following terms to the source it applies to
a. Share cropping
b. Tenant farming
“the said Cooper Hughs Freedman with his wife and one other woman, and the said
Charles Roberts with his wife Hannah and one boy are to work on said farm and to
cultivate forty acres in corn and twenty acres in cotton… and to do all other work on
said farm necessary to be done to keep the same in good order and to raise a good
crop and to be under the control and directions of said IG Bailey and to receive for
their said services one half of the cotton and one third of the corn and fodder raised
by them on said farm in said year 1867…”
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“farmer who pays rent with a portion (often half) of the crop he raises and who
brings little to the operation besides his family labor; the landlord usually furnishing
working stock, tools, fertilizer, housing, fuel, and seed, and often providing regular
advice and oversight.”
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RECONSTRUCTION ENDS
1. Note important information in the following graphic organizer based
on the section “RECONSTRUCTION ENDS” (p137-138).
Reconstruction
Ends
Discontent with
Reconstruction
Impact of
Reconstruction
Causes of
Reconstruction