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When did Reconstruction take place?
The Reconstruction era was the period after the American Civil War from 1865 to 1877,
Who were the 3 presidents during Reconstruction?
Abraham Lincoln, Andrew Johnson, Ulysses S. Grant, and Rutherford B. Hayes
What were the three reconstruction plans?
Lincolns 10% plan, Johnsons (Presidential) plan, and radical Republican plan
Who won the war of reconstruction?
What were the 3 reconstruction plans after the Civil War?
Lincoln's 10%
Presidential Plan (Johnson)
Radical Republican's plan
What is the actual definition of reconstruction?
The act of reconstructing, rebuilding, or reassembling, or the state of being reconstructed: the gigantic task of reconstruction after a fire.
What did Abraham Lincoln do during Reconstruction?
President Lincoln introduced his first plan for Reconstruction; the Proclamation of Amnesty and Reconstruction.
What Reconstruction plan was the harshest?
(Radical Republicans)
Who were the 3 phases of reconstruction?
Reconstruction is generally divided into three phases: Wartime Reconstruction, Presidential Reconstruction and Radical or Congressional Reconstruction
Why did reconstruction end?
The Compromise of 1876 effectively ended the Reconstruction era.
Reconstruction
the reorganization and rebuilding of the former Confederate states after the Civil War
Why was Lincoln's Reconstruction Plan important?
The Proclamation of Amnesty and Reconstruction was Lincoln's plan to reintegrate the Confederate states back into the Union,
What was Abraham Lincoln's 10 percent plan?
Lincoln's proposal offered lenient terms of pardon and amnesty to Confederates who swore allegiance to the United States.
What was civil war reconstruction?
the turbulent era following the Civil War, was the effort to reintegrate Southern states from the Confederacy
What were the 3 major issues of Reconstruction?
reconstruction encompassed three major initiatives: restoration of the Union, transformation of southern society, and enactment of progressive legislation favoring the rights of freed slaves.
Black Codes:
laws passed in the South just after the Civil War aimed at controlling freedmen and enabling plantation owners to exploit African American workers
What was Andrew Johnson's plan for Reconstruction?
Andrew Johnson implemented a plan of Reconstruction that gave the white South a free hand in regulating the transition from slavery to freedom and offered no role to blacks in the politics of the South.
What was Abraham Lincoln's plan for Reconstruction?
Who won the Civil War?
Was the Reconstruction successful?
Reconstruction was a success in that it restored the United States as a unified nation: but due to civil rights problems and the abrupt ending, many consider it a failure
Fourteenth Amendment
gave full citizenship to all people born in the United States, giving equal protection of the laws
Who opposed Johnson's Reconstruction plan? (Hint* he was Secretary of War who was removed from office by Johnson).
Edwin Stanton
What was the easiest Reconstruction plan (on the south)?
Why did reconstruction happen after the war?
What was one of the failures of the reconstruction era?
The economy in the South was not rebuilt, and the rights of African Americans were not protected.