The Challenges of Reconstructin
During the era of Reconstruction (1865-1877), the federal government struggled with how to return the --_____(number of) southern states to the Union.
11 southern states. Look at page 338.
What was the name of the plan which terms meant that as soon as ten percent of the state's voters took the oath of loyalty, they could return to the union?
Lincoln's Ten Percent Plan. Page 340
How did Andrew Johnson become the President?
As a Vice President, he took office after President Lincoln's assassination. Page 341
What was the purpose for the Fourteenth Amendment?
It states that the representation of seats in the House of Representatives was based on a counting of the people in the state. Specifically abolished the Three-Fifth Compromise. Remember the Three-Fifth Compromised had required for each African American to be counted as 3/5 of while man. Page 343
Radical Republicans
Members of Lincoln's party who insisted that the Confederates had committed crimes. Page 340
What the impact of the Civil War on the South?
It devastated the South. Between 1860 and 1870, the South's share of the nation's total wealth declined from more than 30 percent to 12 percent. Page 339
Develop a new government and constitution stating that they have abolished slavery and free education would be provided for African Americans. Page 340
What was the main requirement for the Johnson's Plan for Reconstruction?
That each state ratify the Thirteenth Amendment and draft a constitution that abolished slavery. Page 341
What did the act do to those states that had not ratified?
The act divided them into five military districts governed by former Union generals. In each state voters were elected as delegates to write a new constitution that guaranteed suffrage for African American men. Page 343
Wade-Davis Bill
Required a majority of state's prewar voters swear loyalty to the Union before the process of restoration could begin. Page 341
More than 3 million. Page 339
What did the Wade-Davis Bill require from voters?
It required that a majority of the stat's prewar voters sear loyalty to the Union before the process of restoration could begin. Page 340
Johnson expected the United States to have a "government of ____ men".
White. President Johnson did not want African Americans to have the vote and had little sympathy for their plight. Page 341
Why did the congress try to impeach President Johnson?
There was a power struggle between the Congress and the President. The Congress wanted to limit the powers of the president and limit his ability to replace Cabinet members. Page 343
Black Codes
laws that sought to limit the rights of African Americans and keep them as landless workers. Page 342
Who proposed giving southern lands to benefit freed men? More commonly known as "Forty acres and a mule".
General Sherman. Page 339
Which Republican Party program did receive President Andrew Johnson's support?
The Freedmen's Bureau. Page 340
What kinds of jobs or occupations did the Black Codes in the South require for African Americans and what would happen to those African Americans without a job?
To work only limited to occupations such as servants or farm laborers. Some states prohibited African Americans from owning land, and all set up vacancy laws. These laws stipulated that any African American person who did not have a job could be arrested and sent to work as prison labor. Page 342.
Was President Johnson impeached?
No. page 344
Guaranteed equality under the law for all citizens. Page 343
Which political party dominated the congress and supported programs to extend full citizenship to African Americans?
The Republican Party. Page 339
What was the goal of the Freedman's Bureau plan?
It's goal was to provide food, clothing, health care, and education to both African American and white refugees in the South.
How was the Civil Rights Act of 1866 passed and did President Johnson support it?
Congress sought to overturn the Black Codes. They passed the act to guarantee that African Americans had civil rights. But Johnson vetoed the law, because he thought Reconstruction measures were against constitutional principles. Page 342
Did President Ulysses S Grant win the majority vote and how did he perform with while men who voted?
The Fifteenth Amendment
Forbade any state from denying suffrage on the grounds of race, color, or previous condition of servitude. Page 344