Factoids
Why did transportation in the south suffer so much after the war?
Railroad tracks were torn up
Because Republicans in Congress disagreed over his plans for Reconstruction, Congress attempted to impeach which President
Andrew Johnson
The southern economy was based largely on ______________ making it especially difficult on the south to recover from the war
Agriculture
The rebuilding of the South after the Civil War
Reconstruction
Which industry's decline hurt the souths economy the most?
Agriculture/farming
Scalawags and carpetbaggers were accused of taking advantage of who after the Civil War
Southerners
According to the Constitution all citizens are _____________ before the law
equal
A member of Congress during Reconstruction who wanted to take power from the wealthy southern plantation owners and ensure that freedmen received the right to vote
Radical Republican
President Johnson's Reconstruction plans were considered to be too lenient or too harsh by Republican congressmen?
Too lenient
After the 15th Amendment was ratified new methods were found to prevent which group of people from voting
African Americans
The ____________ amendment defined citizens as people born in the United States or naturalized
Fourteenth
a person who rents a plot of land from another person and farms it in exchange for a share of the crop
sharecropper
True or false... The Freedmen's Bureau provided education to people of ALL ages
True
Many Southerners disagreed with Reconstruction because they believed it gave ________ too much power over southern states
Congress
The ________ amendment extended the right to vote to African American male citizens
Fifteenth
The legal separation of people based on racial, ethical, or other differences
segregation
Thinking it would be easiest to consider that the Confederacy had never seceded was which president's plan for Reconstruction
Lincoln
Reconstruction had the most positive effect on what area....
education, agriculture, urbanization, poverty
education
The __________ amendment outlawed slavery and involuntary servitude
Thirteenth
an 1867 law that threw out the southern state governments that refused to ratify the 14th amendment
Reconstruction Act