Rebuilding the South
Goal of Lincoln's plan for Reconstruction.
What is to admit the Southern states quickly?
How the Freedmen's Bureau helped freed people.
What is they built schools and colleges?
These people wanted Johnson's administration to be more active.
What are the Radical Republicans?
Leader of the 5 districts in Southern Reconstruction.
Who was a military commander?
This helped to weaken northern support for Reconstruction.
What is the Panic of 1873?
What the 13th Amendment did.
What is made slavery illegal?
Johnson appointed these to help set up new state governments.
What are temporary governors?
What the 14th Amendment did.
What is granted citizenship to all, except Native Americans?
What the 15th Amendment did?
What is give African American men the right to vote?
The industry that was important to the economy of the New South.
What is the textile industry?
Explain how the black codes limited the freedom of the newly freed African Americans. Examine why these laws angered many Republicans.
African Americans had to sign contracts to work, could not buy weapons, and could only rent property in cities.
Many Republicans thought the south was returning to its old ways.
Explain at least three accomplishments of the Freedmen's Bureau.
Provided relief for freed people and certain poor people in the South
-Distributed food and provided education and legal help
-Established 3,000 schools and several universities
Describe the Ku Klux Klan’s use of terror to interfere with elections in the South.
-The Ku Klux Klan attacked voters and public officials.
-The Klan prevented some people from voting
Define impeachment. Tell who voted to impeach the president. Examine the reason they did this. Explain whether or not Johnson kept his job. Finally, list at least one possible outcome of the impeachment trial.
-Impeachment is the process used by the legislative body to bring charges of wrongdoing by a public official.
-The House of Representatives voted to impeach Johnson.
-They did this because he illegally fired his Secretary of War, Edwin Stanton.
-Johnson was acquitted. He kept his job by one vote.
-As a result of this trial, Johnson did not run for re-election in 1868.
Examine the reasons African Americans turned to sharecropping. Explain what sharecropping was. What types of crops did they grow? How did the growing of these crops hurt their families? What type of cycle were they stuck in?
-Very few African Americans could afford to buy or rent land.
-Sharecroppers would provide labor on a farm to landowners. In exchange, the sharecropper would give the majority of the crop to the owner.
-Sharecroppers were forced to grow cash crops.
-They needed to grow food for their families.
-They were often forced to buy this food from the landowner, causing the sharecropper to be stuck in a cycle of debt.
Examine at least 3 ways state governments reconstruction provided money for many new programs.
-They helped establish public schools.
-They built hospitals.
-They passed laws against discrimination.
-They constructed railroads and bridges.
How far away was Reconstruction from Abraham Lincoln?
what is 12 years
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