Unit 5 Study Guide
1. How did Johnson’s plan for Reconstruction differ from Lincoln’s?
2. What was a major accomplishment of Mississippi’s Reconstruction government?
3. What were the differences between Presidential Reconstruction and Congressional
Reconstruction?
4. When Mississippi established the Black Codes, this was simply another way for the
state to accomplish?
5. Describe social life in Mississippi following the war.
6. What were the 14th and 15th Amendments?
7. Why did whites in Mississippi want a reapportionment?
8. What were the two phases of Lincoln’s Reconstruction?
9. Why did many white Republicans return to the Democratic Party?
10.
What clause was established to try to keep blacks from voting?
11.
Why did Congress take over Reconstruction?
12.
Why did whites in Mississippi dislike carpetbaggers and scalawags?
13.
What was a positive accomplishment of the Civil Rights Act of 1865?
14.
What role did the Ku Klux Klan play in the Reconstruction period?
15.
What was the final blow to Reconstruction and how did it end?
16.
When was Mississippi admitted back into the Union?
17.
Describe the Constitution of 1890.