Chapter 12 Reconstruction
1.
What were the reasons the scalawags joined the Republican Party?
2.
Which Reconstruction plan was killed with a pocket veto?
3.
How were states to be readmitted under the ten-percent plan?
4.
What ended Reconstruction in the South?
5.
Who was the African American that held the Senate seat once held by the Confederate
President, Jefferson Davis?
6.
Why were Black Codes passed in the South?
7.
What was the difference between sharecropping and tenant farming?
8.
What did terrorist groups operating in the South after the war have in common?
9.
What was known about property losses in the South after the war?
10. What do we know about the Reconstruction plans of Congress and the President?
11. What did Thaddeus Stevens and other Republicans in Congress think of Lincoln’s Ten
Percent Plan?
12. How did Lincoln respond to the Wade-Davis Bill?
13.
What was the main issue over readmission of the southern states?
14. What did John Wilkes Booth hope to accomplish by assassinating Lincoln?
15. What was the basic goal of the Black Codes?
16. Andrew Johnson’s vetoes of which bills, ended all attempts by Moderates to work with
him?
17. What was true of the impeachment of Andrew Johnson?
18. By the end of the 1870’s, what was true about most freedmen?
19. Why were the Enforcement acts passed in 1870 and 1871?
20. What was promised in the Compromise of 1877?
Terms to identify or define:
Ku Klux Klan
Southern Homestead Act
Liberal Republicans
Rutherford B. Hayes
Reconstruction Acts
Radical Republicans
John Wilkes Both
Civil Rights Act
Thaddeus Stevens
Freedmen’s Bureau
impeachment
Redeemers
Slaughterhouse Cases