Name: ______________________________ Date:__________ Period:_________
Define the following terms: (Who, What, When, Why, Why important, and How)
13th Amendment
14th Amendment
15th Amendment
Impeach
Pardon
Tenant farming
Sharecropping
Infrastructure
Carpetbagger
Scalawag
Reconstruction
Southern Redemption
Civil Rights Act of 1866
Freedmen’s Bureau
Thaddeus Stevens
Frederick Douglas
Reconstruction Acts
Ku Klux Klan
Enforcement Acts
Panic of 1873
Civil Rights Act of 1875
Rutherford B. Hayes
Samuel J. Tilden
Compromise of 1877
poll taxes
Literacy tests
segregation
Jim Crow laws
Plessy v. Ferguson
Madam C. J. Walker
Booker T. Washington
Ida B. Wells
Black Codes
Answer the following:
1. Compare and contrast Lincoln’s plans for Reconstruction, Presidential Reconstruction, and Radical
Reconstruction.
2. What effect did Reconstruction have on blacks? Were they better off after Reconstruction than they
were before the Civil War? Explain
3. Was the impeachment of President Johnson justified? Why or why not? What were the
consequences of his acquittal in the Senate?
4. What effect did the Compromise of 1877 have on politics in the North and South?
5. Part of President Lincoln's plan for Reconstruction was to offer what to Southerners who would
take an oath of loyalty to the United States?
6. Where did the Freedmen's Bureau make the most lasting impact?
7. What group made up scalawags during reconstruction?
8. Following the Civil War, many Southern states enacted black codes to do what?
9. What effect did sharecropping have on the South after the Civil War?
10. What was Lincoln’s message in his Second Inaugural Address?
11. Explain Sherman’s Field Order No. 15 and its impact on African Americans.
12. What was the Tenure of Office Act and how did it relate to the imnpeachment of Andrew
Johnson?
Name: ______________________________ Date:__________ Period:_________