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Reconstruction Daily Questions
?s 1-14 due Tuesday, January 21
/30 points
Page 101 –
right side
by Tuesday,
January 12
1. How did the Civil War increase nationalism in the North?
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3 POINTS
2. What was the South’s economy like after the Civil War?
Generalization
Proof
RG 1-7
pg 107
Page 102 – left side
Friday,
January 15
/
4 POINTS
RG 16-21
PG 113
3. Why did JWB assassinate Abraham Lincoln?
JWB stands for
Why he shot Lincoln
Tuesday &
Wednesday
January
12-13
TuesdayThursday,
Jan 19-21
4. What happened to Lincoln’s assassin & his conspirators?
JWB
Conspirators
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6 POINTS
pp. 108-109
5. How did Lincoln’s death affect the US?
N Reaction
S Reaction
Wed-Thurs
Jan 13-14
/2 PTS
RG 10
pp 110-111
6. What were 2 of Lincoln’s goals/desires for Reconstruction?
Main Goal
Proof
Thursday,
January 14
7. What does “equal protection of the law” mean?
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3 POINTS
RG 8-15
pg 111
Fri, Jan 15
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4 POINTS
RG 16-21
pg 113
8. Describe two (2) reasons Reconstruction was difficult.
In D.C.
In the South
9. Who were the Reconstructionists?
2 types of Northerners
2 types of Southerners
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8 POINTS
10. How did Southerners feel about Reconstructionists? Why?
Feeling
Why
11. How were African Americans involved in & affected by
Reconstruction?
Involved in
Affected by
12. Why didn’t African Americans get their own land during
Reconstruction? (2 things they “gained” instead of land)
13. How did sharecropping affect the South?
3 problems of too much cotton
Sharecroppers caught in
RG 22-29
pp. 114-119
14. How does sharecropping compare to slavery?
Pros (better than slavery)
Cons (worse than slavery)
?s 15-22 due Monday, February 1
Friday,
January 22
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7 POINTS
pp 120-121
/24 points
15. How did the Ku Klux Klan’s purpose change over time?
Original purpose (what & who)
Eventual purpose
16. How did the KKK affect Reconstruction?
3 targets
Why those groups targeted
Page 103 – right side
Friday,
January 22
17. What were 2 reasons the KKK was so powerful & difficult to
stop during Reconstruction?
Page 104 –
left side
Reconstruction Vocabulary
Vocab Pix & Quiz 1 – Tuesday, January 26
Vocab Quiz 2 – Thursday, February 4
79. Thirteenth (13th) Amendment (1865) – abolished/banned slavery in the United
States.
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2 POINTS
pp 120-121
18. What two (2) problems caused people to lose interest in and
stop Reconstruction?
Wednesday,
January 27
$$ problem
politics problem
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4 POINTS
80. Reconstruction – rebuilding & readmitting the South into the Union after the
Civil War.
19. What 2 ways did the US Supreme Court affect
Reconstruction?
RG 30-40
pg 123
20. How did Southerners limit rights & freedoms of African
Americans?
During Reconstruction
After Reconstruction
81. Radical Republicans – wanted to use federal power to create a new South with
full & equal citizenship/rights for African Americans.
Thurs-Fri,
January
28-29
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11 POINTS
RG 41-48
pp 125-127
21. What 3 loopholes did Southerners create to keep African
Americans from voting?
22. How were black codes & Jim Crow Laws different?
• black codes limited
of
during
•
Jim Crow Laws
after Reconstruction based on the
“
in the
v.
US Supreme Court case.
blacks & whites
” ruling
82. Fourteenth (14th) Amendment (1868) – makes anyone born in the US are
citizens, have equal rights, & are entitled to “equal protection of the laws”.
Southern states were required to ratify the Amendment to reenter the Union.
83. Freedmen’s Bureau – federal agency designed to help former slaves by setting
up schools and hospitals for African Americans and distributing clothes, food,
and fuel throughout the South.
Page 106 – left side
87. Fifteenth (15th) Amendment (1870) – male citizens could not be stopped from
voting “on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude”. However,
Southern states used poll taxes, literacy tests, and grandfather clauses to keep
African Americans from voting for the next 95 years.
Page 105 – right side
84. scalawags – poor white Southern farmers angry at planters for starting the “rich
man’s war” who became Republicans & supported Radical Reconstruction.
Other Southerners called them “scoundrels” & viewed them as traitors.
85. carpetbaggers – white Northerners who moved to the South to help after the
Civil War. Many Southerners accused them (often unfairly) of seeking only to
get rich or gain political power.
88. grandfather clause – an addition to Southern state constitutions after
Reconstruction that stated a man could vote only if he or an ancestor could vote
before 1867. Since African Americans could not vote until 1868, they still could
not vote in the South after Reconstruction.
89. black codes – laws passed in Southern states that limited the freedom of former
slaves during Reconstruction. Throughout the South blacks could not meet
alone in groups, carry guns, & had to work on a plantation if they didn’t have
written proof of a job.
86. sharecropping – an agreement between a farmer and landowner to share profits
from crops. The landowner provided tools, seed, and housing for the farmer.
90. Jim Crow laws – laws passed in Southern states that enforced segregation
The farmer provided cheap labor for the landowner.
(separation) of white and black people in public places after Reconstruction.
91. Plessy v. Ferguson – 1896 Supreme Court case that ruled “separate but equal”
facilities did not violate the 14th Amendment’s “equal protection of the laws”.
Segregated schools, restrooms, and public transportation became very common
until the 1960s.