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© Erin Kathryn 2015 Name: ________________________________________________ Date: __________________________ Civil War Reconstruction Internet Scavenger Hunt WebQuest Directions: Click on the link below to answer the following questions. http://www.ducksters.com/history/civil_war/reconstruction.php 1. Much of the Southern United States was destroyed during the Civil War. Farms and ________________ were burned down and their ______________ destroyed. Also, many people had Confederate _______________ which was now worthless and the local __________________ were in disarray. 2. The Reconstruction lasted from _______________ to ______________. The purpose of the Reconstruction was to help the South _____________________________________________. 3. ___________________ troops occupied much of the South during the Reconstruction to insure that ___________ were followed and that another uprising did not occur. Lincoln’s Plan for Reconstruction 4. Abraham Lincoln wanted to be lenient to the South and make it _______________ for southern states to _______________ the Union. 5. Lincoln said that any southerner who took an ___________ to the Union would be given a ________________. He also said that if __________% of the voters in a state supported the Union, then a state could be readmitted 6. Under Lincoln’s plan, any state that was readmitted must make what illegal as part of their constitution? _____________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________ © Erin Kathryn 2015 President Johnson 7. Lincoln never had the chance to implement his Reconstruction plan because he was assassinated. When _______________________ became president, he was from the South and wanted to be even more __________________ to the Confederate States than Lincoln. 8. Congress, however, _______________ and began to pass harsher laws for the Southern states. Black Codes 9. In an effort to get around laws passed by ___________________, many southern states began to pass _______________________. These were laws that prevented black people from ________________, ___________________, ________________, and even __________________________. 10. What did these laws cause between the North and the South as they tried to reunite after the Civil War? _____________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________. New Amendments to the Constitution 11. To help with the Reconstruction and to protect the rights of all people, three amendments were added to the US Constitution. What did the 13th Amendment outlaw? _____________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________. 12. The 14th Amendment said that black people were ____________________ of the United States and that all people were protected ________________________ by the law. 13. The 15th Amendment gave all people the right to _______________________ regardless of _______________________. © Erin Kathryn 2015 Rejoining the Union 14. What was the first and last state to be readmitted to the Union? First: _____________________________________________ Last: _____________________________________________ Help from the Union 15. The Union did a lot to help the South during the Reconstruction. They ___________________________, got __________________________________, and built __________________________________________. Eventually the economy in the South began to recover. Carpetbaggers 16. Some ______________________ moved to the South during the Reconstruction to try and make ______________________ off of the rebuilding. 17. These people were often called carpetbaggers because they sometimes carried their ____________________ in luggage called carpetbags. The End of the Reconstruction 18. The Reconstruction officially ended under the presidency of _________________________ in 1877. He removed the _____________ troops from the South and the ____________________________ took over. Interesting Facts about the Reconstruction 19. Name 3 interesting facts about the Reconstruction: ____________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________ © Erin Kathryn 2015