Chapter 12: Reconstruction

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Chapter 12: Reconstruction

Section 1: Pages 402-408

1.

What were farms and houses in the South worth after the war?

2.

_____________ African Americans won their freedom.

3.

Describe three problems African Americans faced after the war.

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4.

When was the purpose of the Freedman’s Bureau?

5.

Describe President Lincoln’s Reconstruction plan.

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6.

What was the Wade-Davis Bill?

7.

Describe the assassination of President Lincoln.

8.

Identify two ways President Johnson’s plan was similar to Lincoln’s.

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Section 2: Pages 411-415

9.

What were the Black Codes?

10.

Give three examples of how Black Codes were enforced.

11.

How did the Ku Klux Klan begin?

12.

What did the Radical Republicans favor?

13.

What were the two bills the moderates proposed?

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14.

When did Congress pass the 14 th

Amendment and what did it do?

15.

Define impeachment, and then use it in a sentence.

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16.

What was the 15 th Amendment?

Section 3: Pages 416-422

17.

Why was General Longstreet viewed as a scalawag?

18.

What is a scalawag?

19.

What did it mean to be a carpetbagger?

20.

Describe two ways African Americans were involved in government.

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21.

Identify three places African Americans went to seek economic opportunity.

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22.

Describe the importance of education and religion in the lives of African Americans.

Education Religion

23.

From the Quick Facts chart on page 421, describe how African American’s hopes were raised and denied.

24.

Describe sharecropping and tenant farming.

Section 4: Pages 424-427

25. The _________________________was the most active terrorist group in the South during Reconstruction.

26. Describe how the Enforcement Acts broke the power of this group.

27. Describe the Compromise of 1877.

28. Describe the legacy of Reconstruction in the South.

New South Solid South

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