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Reconstruction - Chapter 12
Study Guide
A. Review the Essential Questions:
To what extent can political goals of war be achieved through military victory?
To what extent can a society be rebuilt after war?
How does a democratic government compel obedience to law?
To what extent does a reform movement fulfill its goals?
B. Review Main Ideas:
1. Explain three major problems the South faced at the end of the Civil War? How did
these problems contribute to ongoing tensions?
2. Identify and describe the plans for Reconstruction the Lincoln, Johnson, and
Congress had.
LINCOLN’S PLAN
Anything similar?
JOHNSON’S PLAN
CONGRESS
3. How did life change for African Americans during Reconstruction? What problems
still remained?
4. Summarize the “sharecropping system.” How did it affect farmers in the South?
5. What was the KKK and how did it attempt to undermine the changes made during
Reconstruction?
6. Why was Johnson impeached?
7. Was Reconstruction a success or a failure? Why?
8. How did the period of Reconstruction get the nickname of “the Second Civil War”?
B. Review the Important Terms
(Be able to identify each and explain its significance)
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to reconstruct
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Lincoln’s Plan for Reconstruction
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Congress’ Plan (Radical Reconstruction)
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Johnson’s Plan
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Abraham Lincoln
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Assassination
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John Wilkes Booth
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Andrew Johnson
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to impeach
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process of Impeachment
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Ulysses S. Grant
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Freedman’s Bureau
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13th Amendment
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14th Amendment
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15th Amendment
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KKK
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Black Codes
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Effects of Reconstruction
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to pardon
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carpetbagger
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scalawag
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sharecropping
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tenant farmer
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Hayes and Tilden Election
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Compromise of 1876
C. Review the Important Illustrations, Maps, and Charts, Activities
(What does each map, chart, or illustration tell you about the material in the chapter?)
Lincoln’s Second Inaugural Address, (a personal voice), p. 351
Thaddeus Stevens (key players), p. 382
Southern Military Districts (map), p. 354
Major Reconstruction Legislation (Chart) p.355
Freedman’s School p. 356
Sharecropping and Tenant Farming (cause and effect), p. 364
Point/ Counterpoint Success of Reconstruction p. 372
Jim Crow Map Lab
Sharecropping Simulation
The Ku Klux Klan: A Secret History
Prom Night in Mississippi