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Reconstruction
(1865-1877)
1. When was Reconstruction?
2. Define Reconstruction.
3. What did the federal government
try to do during Reconstruction?
4. What were three results of
Reconstruction?
5. What was President Abraham
Lincoln’s belief regarding
Reconstruction?
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?
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
Reconstruction
1. 1865-1877
2. the federal government’s plan to
rebuild and re-establish the states of the
former Confederacy
3. rebuild the South and restore the Union
after the Civil War
4. 1) Southern white resentment toward
both Northerners and blacks
2) Control of the South by whites
3) Gains of former slaves were
temporary
5. 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.
6. No.
7. Yes.
8. Lincoln
9. Assassinated
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
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?
30. What were the long-term results of
the Civil War’s industrialization of
the North and Midwest?
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. 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
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?
41. During the era of Jim Crow, what
specific political rights did most
Southern blacks lose?
42. What happened to Southern blacks
after Reconstruction ended?
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
41. Right to vote and right to serve on
juries
42. were denied the full rights of American
citizenship until the mid-1960s