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OP 5 Notes

RECONSTRUCTION

(WAR TIME RECONSTRUCTION)

  1. What is Reconstruction?
  1. Explain Lincoln’s plan for Reconstruction?

10% Plan
1. Offered a general amnesty/ pardon to southerners who took an oath except southerners ---
2. had to accept the 13th amendment which ------
3. 10% of each ______population had to meet the requirements
4. once each state met the above they could write new ______
  1. People opposed to Lincoln’s plan for reconstructions were called ______
  2. Why were they opposed to his plan?
  3. This created tension between the ______& ______branches of government over who would lead the Reconstruction effort
  4. Goals of Radical Republicans/ leaders----
  5. Prevent leaders of CSA from returning to power
  6. Rep. party to become dominate party in the south
  7. Help African Americans achieve equality.
  1. What issue did northerners have with membership in the House?
  1. Who are the Moderate Republicans?
  1. WADE DAVID BILL – also called the ( Iron Clad Oath)
  2. Required majority of whites to wear allegiance
  3. Ratify the ______amendment
  4. Reject debts gained as a member of the CSA
  5. Lincoln’s reaction to the Wade Davis Bill?
  1. What is the Freedmen’s Bureau?
  2. Tasks –
  1. carpetbaggers –
  1. Significance of April 14, 1865 –
  2. Successor to Lincoln

Presidential Reconstruction

  1. Johnson’s Plan for Reconstruction –

10% + Plan
  1. pardon all former citizens who took an oath except CSA military officers, high ranking officials, or confederates with a property value of over $20,000
  2. denounce secession
  3. ratify 13th
  4. reject debts
*** all former CSA states agree to except TEXAS
  1. How did Johnson hurt his own Plan? Why?
  1. Explain the Congressional Make Up of 1865 – meaning who came to congress from the south? Why was this problem?
  1. What new laws were taking shape in the south?

Radical Republicans Take Control 1866

  1. What is the 14th Amendment? (ERA AMENDMENT)
  1. Radical Republicans win the Congress in 1866 and enact a new Reconstruction PLAN

Radical Reconstruction Plan
  1. civil authorities subject to military supervision
  2. ratification of the 13th and 14th amendments and black suffrage
  3. MILITARY RECONSTRUCTION ACT
  4. divide the 10 states that did not ratify the 14th amendment into 5 military zones
  5. Command of the Army Act
  6. Tenure of Office Act – will cause IMPEACHMENT

  1. What does Johnson do to get himself impeached? Was he removed as president?
  1. Difference between carpetbaggers and scalawags?
  1. ACHIEVEMENTS DURING MILITARY RECONSTRUCTION

  1. former slave took part in governments
  2. Hiram Revels/ Joseph Rainey –
  3. 8 freedmen were elected to the House and Senate –
  4. significance of the 15th amendment –
-response of women
  1. Civil Rights act of 1875
  2. Republicans become dominant party in the South
  3. began repeal of Black Codes
  4. public schools
  5. SC, LA, FL --- schools were ______
  6. 4,000 new schools
  7. 9,000 new teachers
  8. HBCUs --- Morehouse and Fisk
  9. SC – majority black ______

SOUTHERN RESISTANCE

  1. What is the KKK –
  1. kleegling
  1. Enforcements Acts –

FAILURE OF RECONSTRUCTION

  1. How did Grant see his role as President?
  1. Who won the election of 1872?
  1. what scandals happened during Grant’s Administration that took away from the process of Reconstruction?
  1. what was happening to the economy?
  1. significance of the year 1874 –
  1. how did the election of 1876 bring about an end to Reconstruction?
  1. how did African Americans or Freedmen fair in the NEW SOUTH?

- what laws were passed to keep the people of color “down”

WHY DID AMRAHAM LINCOLN HAVE FRUSTRATIONS WITH SO MANY OF HIS GENERALS? EVENTUALLY WHY IS GRANT ABLE TO FORCE LEE INTO SURRENDURING?

WHAT PROBLEMS EXISTED AFTER THE CIVIL WAR CONCLUDED? HOW MIGHT YOU HANDLE THESE PROBLEMS? WHAT FUTURE PROBLES COME ABOUT FROM THE CIVIL WAR?

WHAT TERM IS GIVEN TO THE HISTORICAL ERA DIRECTLY FOLLOWING THE CIVIL WAR?