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Reconstruction Answers
1. When was Reconstruction?
2. Define Reconstruction.
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3. What did the federal govt try to do during Reconstruction?
4. What were three results of Reconstruction?
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5. What was President Abraham Lincoln’s belief regarding
Reconstruction?
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6. Did President Lincoln want to punish the South after the war was
over?
7. After the Civil War, did President Lincoln want to reunify the
nation as quickly as possible?
8. Who spoke the words, “With malice towards none, with charity
for all…let us bind up the nation’s wounds…?
9. What happened to President Abraham Lincoln a few days after
Lee’s surrender at Appommatox?
10. Who succeeded Abraham Lincoln as president?
11. Who were the Radical Republicans?
6.
1865-1877
the federal government’s plan to rebuild and re-establish the
states of the former Confederacy
rebuild the South and restore the Union after the Civil War
1) Southern white resentment toward both Northerners and
blacks
2) Control of the South by whites
3) Gains of former slaves were temporary
Since secession was illegal, the southern states had never really
left the Union. Therefore, Reconstruction was a matter of
quickly restoring state gov’ts., which were loyal to the Union.
No.
7.
Yes.
8.
Lincoln
9.
Assassinated
12. What two ideas did the Radical Republicans want included in the
federal government’s Reconstruction policy?
13. What did the term military occupation mean during
Reconstruction?
14. With whom did the Radical Republicans in Congress repeatedly
clash?
15. On what particular issue did the Radical Republicans completely
disagree with President Johnson?
16. Who were the freedmen?
17. What action did the Radical Republicans take after President
Andrew Johnson tried to prevent their program on behalf of
freedmen?
18. Define impeachment.
19. Under the Constitution, does impeachment necessarily mean an
official is removed from office?
20. Under the Constitution, which house of Congress can impeach the
president?
21. Under the Constitution, which house of Congress can remove a
president from office?
22. Did the Radical Republicans succeed in removing President
Andrew Johnson from office?
23. What three amendments did the Radical Republicans add to the
United States Constitution in order to help African-Americans?
24. Identify the Thirteenth Amendment.
25. Identify the Fourteenth Amendment.
26. Identify the Fifteenth Amendment.
27. How had the Civil War affected the Southern states?
28. What was the long-term result of the South’s devastation during
the Civil War?
29. How did the Civil War affect the North and Midwest?
10. Andrew Johnson
11. Republicans who wanted to punish the former Confederate
states for causing the Civil War.
12. 1) Military occupation of the South
2) Civil rights for African-Americans
13. Southern states were under the rule of a general in the U.S.
army and American military troops were stationed in the South
to keep order.
14. President Johnson
15. Civil rights for the freedmen
16. Freed slaves
17. impeached Johnson
18. The process of bringing an official to trial for misconduct in
office.
19. No.
20. The House of Representatives.
21. Senate
22. No.
23. 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments
24. freed the slaves
25. gave citizenship to African-Americans; guaranteed “equal
protection of the laws”
26. gave African-American males the right to vote
27. devastated them
28. South remained the poorest section of the nation for a long time
29. North and Midwest had strong industrial economies.
30. What were the long-term results of the Civil War’s
industrialization of the North and Midwest?
31. What transportation achievement occurred in 1869?
32. What was the effect of the first transcontinental railroad?
33. What deal was made between Southern Democrats and
Republicans to end Reconstruction?
34. What was this deal called?
35. Define the term Electoral College.
36. What are electoral votes?
37. Under the Constitution, how many electoral votes does each state
receive?
38. Who gained power in the Southern states as a result of the
Compromise of 1877?
39. Define the term “Jim Crow Era.”
40. What happened to Southern African-Americans during the era of
Jim Crow?
30. 1) led to industrialization of the nation, except the South, during
the second half of the 19th century
2) U.S. became a global economic power by the beginning of the
20th century
31. transcontinental railroad; transcontinental = across the
continent
32. increased westward movement of settlers into the states
between the Mississippi River and the Pacific Ocean.
33. Southern Democrats support the Republican candidate for
president and Republicans would end military occupation of the
South
34. Compromise of 1877
35. The group of people who cast the official votes that elect the
President and Vice President.
36. The official votes for president
37. Electoral votes = Number of members in House of
Representatives + two for U.S. Senators
38. Former Confederates who controlled the Democratic party
39. The period in which Southern states required racial segregation
in public schools, transportation, and other public facilities.
(racial segregation = separation of the races)
40. Lost most of the political gains they had made during
Reconstruction