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Directions: Use your notes, Online resources (phone) , and/or your text book to answer the
following questions.
1.
Describe Lincoln’s “Ten Percent Plan” for Reconstruction.
2. How were the Reconstruction Plans of Presidents Lincoln and Andrew Johnson similar?
3. Describe the Radical Republicans’ plan for Reconstruction.
4. What did the following constitutional amendments do?
13th:
14th:
15th:
5. What was the purpose of the Freedmen’s Bureau do?
6. What were Black Codes or Jim Crow Laws?
7. Explain how the “sharecropping” system worked?
8. Identify the following three groups that supported the Republican Party in the South:
a. Freedmen:
b. “Scalawags:”
c. “Carpetbaggers:”
9. Identify some strategies that Southern planters and ex-Confederates used to limit the rights of
African-Americans?
10. Why did Reconstruction end in 1877?
11. Explain how both the Compromise of 1850 and the Kansas-Nebraska Act attempted to decide the
issue of slavery’s expansion through “popular sovereignty.”
12. What was the original purpose of the Civil War according to Lincoln?
13. Specifically what did the Emancipation Proclamation do? What were some of Lincoln’s motives for
issuing it when he did?
14. Describe the Union and Confederate strategies for winning the war.
15. How did new military technology influence the fighting of the Civil War?
16. Explain the significance of the following battles: Fort Sumter, Gettysburg, Vicksburg, Sherman’s
March to the Sea, and Appomattox.
17. What Were the (6 Causes) of the Civil War Know at least 3 of these (Class Notes)??