Reconstruction Questions

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Reconstruction Questions
1. What was the fate of the Confederate leaders after the Civil War?
2. What was the state of the postwar economy in the South?
3. What did emancipation mean to Southern blacks?
4. What was the Thirteenth Amendment?
5. What was the Freedman's Bureau? Accomplishments?
6. Why was Andrew Johnson included on the Republican ticket in 1864?
7. What was Lincoln's plan for Reconstruction?
8. What was the Wade-Davis Bill?
9. What was Johnson's plan for Reconstruction?
10. What were the black codes? Purpose?
11. How did the North view the black codes?
12. Why did many Republicans have a problem with the South regaining full rights?
13. What was Congressional Reconstruction?
14. What was the Fourteenth Amendment?
15. What was the basis of the battle between Johnson and Congress?
16. What was the Fifteenth Amendment?
17. Who were scalawags and carpetbaggers?
18. What were the accomplishments of the Radical Reconstruction state governments?
19. What was the Ku Klux Klan? What did they do?
20. Why was Johnson impeached?
21. Why was Johnson acquitted in his impeachment trial?
22. Was Reconstruction effective?
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