Reconstruction(1865-1877)Study Guide

Directions: On a separate sheet of paper, answer the following questions in short form.

  1. What event brought an end to the Civil War?
  2. Where did the Civil War end?
  3. When did the Civil War end?
  4. What are the dates of the Reconstruction Era?
  5. Define Reconstruction.
  6. What did the federal government try to do during Reconstruction?
  7. What were three results of Reconstruction?
  8. What was President Abraham Lincoln’s belief regarding Reconstruction?
  9. Did President Lincoln want to punish the South after the war was over?
  10. After the Civil War, did President Lincoln want to reunify the nation as quickly as possible?
  11. Who spoke the words, “With malice towards none, with charity for all…let us bind up the nation’s wounds…?
  12. What happened to President Abraham Lincoln a few days after Lee’s surrender at Appomattox?
  13. Who succeeded Abraham Lincoln as president?
  14. Who were the Radical Republicans?
  15. What two ideas did the Radical Republicans want included in the federal government’s Reconstruction policy?
  16. What did the term military occupation mean during Reconstruction?
  17. With whom did the Radical Republicans in Congress repeatedly clash?
  18. On what particular issue did the Radical Republicans completely disagree with President Johnson?
  19. Who were the freedmen?
  20. What action did the Radical Republicans take after President Andrew Johnson tried to prevent their program on behalf of freedmen?
  21. Define impeachment.
  22. Under the Constitution, does impeachment necessarily mean an official is removed from office?
  23. Under the Constitution, which house of Congress can impeach the president?
  24. Under the Constitution, which house of Congress can remove a president from office?
  25. Did the Radical Republicans succeed in removing President Andrew Johnson from office?
  26. Who sits as the jury at a president’s impeachment trial?
  27. What proportion of senators must vote to convict an impeached president for him to be removed from office?
  28. What three amendments did the Radical Republicans add to the United States Constitution in order to help African-Americans?
  29. Identify the Thirteenth Amendment.
  30. Identify the Fourteenth Amendment.
  31. Identify the Fifteenth Amendment.
  32. How had the Civil War affected the Southern states?
  33. What had been destroyed throughout the South during the Civil War?
  34. Did Confederate money have any value at the end of the war?
  35. What two major Southern cities lay in ruins at the end of the Civil War?
  36. Why did the Civil War change the source of labor in the Southern states?
  37. What was the long-term result of the South’s devastation during the Civil War?
  38. How did the Civil War affect the North and Midwest?
  39. What were the long-term results of the Civil War’s industrialization of the North and Midwest?
  40. What transportation achievement occurred in 1869?
  41. What was the effect of the first transcontinental railroad?
  42. What did both Robert E. Lee and Ulysses S. Grant urge after the Civil War?
  43. What did Grant urge Radical Republicans not to do?
  44. To what office was Grant elected in 1868 and when did he serve in this office?
  45. What did President Grant advocate or support and what did he oppose?
  46. What did Robert E. Lee urge Southerners to do after the Civil War?
  47. What job did Lee hold after the Civil War?
  48. What did Lee emphasize as a college president?
  49. What did Frederick Douglass become after the Civil War?
  50. During Reconstruction, what did Frederick Douglass support and advocate?
  51. What type of federal actions did Douglass encourage?
  52. What did Douglass do later in his career?
  53. What deal was made between Southern Democrats and Republicans to end Reconstruction?
  54. What was this deal called?
  55. Define the term Electoral College.
  56. What are electoral votes?
  57. Under the Constitution, how many electoral votes does each state receive?
  58. Who gained power in the Southern states as a result of the Compromise of 1877?
  59. Define the term “Jim Crow Era.”
  60. What happened to Southern African-Americans during the era of Jim Crow?
  61. During the era of Jim Crow, what specific political rights did most Southern blacks lose?
  62. What happened to Southern blacks after Reconstruction ended?