Week Five
“Reconstruction”
Standards
. 5.18 Describe the physical, social, political and economic consequences of the Civil War on the
southern United States. (E, G) . 5.19 Draw on information from multiple print or digital resources to describe the impact of
the assassination of Abraham Lincoln on the nation. (H) . 5.20 Analyze the goals and accomplishments of the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments,
Freedmen’s Bureau, and Fisk University to help former slaves begin a new life. (C, H, P,
TN) . 5.21 Compare and contrast the different Reconstruction plans of Lincoln, Johnson, and
Congress. (H, P) Vocabulary to Know
1. Reconstruction: the period of time following the Civil War
2. loyalty: faithfulness
3. freedmen: former slaves
4. execute: to put to death as a punishment for a crime
5. abolish: to put an end to
6. debt: money that is owed to another
7. sharecropper: one who rents farmland and pays rent with a portion of
the crops
8. carpetbagger: one from the North who moved to the South for
business opportunity during Reconstruction
9. scalawag: any Southerner during Reconstruction that supported
Northern causes or freedmen
10 traitor: one who betrays the trust of another
Name/#
Date
“Reconstructing a Nation”
After the Civil War ended, many disagreed about how to
, or
repair the nation. Some members of Congress wanted to see the Confederates
for their part in the war. However, President
Lincoln wanted to reunite, or
, the
country quickly during this time called
What were the three parts of Lincoln’s plan?
1.
2.
3.
Why were some Northerners angry with Lincoln’s plan?
Some Northerners thought that the South needed to
so that such a
would not
happen again. However, Lincoln
Congress’s
Reconstruction advice. He refused to sign a much
.
List some of the problems that people faced in the South
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
List some of the problems that the freed slaves faced in the South
1.
2.
3.
Congress established the
in order to help the freed slaves
. The United States had so
much healing to do after the Civil War. Unfortunately, it would be a
.
“One Nation Again”
Contrast the lives of the Northerners, the Southerners, and the freed slaves
What two things did the Northerners want?
What was happening in the South?
What were the feelings and experiences of the freed slaves?
“A President’s Death”
People hoped that Lincoln would guide the country through the Reconstruction.
However, on
, 1965, that hope was destroyed.
President Lincoln and his wife were attending a play at
in Washington, D.C. During the play,
crept up behind the president and
. Soldiers carried the
president across the street to a
where doctors tried to save his life. However, Lincoln died early on the morning
of
. Federal troops caught and killed Lincoln’s
, or killer.
Why did Booth and the others involved want to assassinate Lincoln?
What happened to Booth and the others involved?
“A New Plan”
Why did the northerners come to realize about President Andrew Johnson?
What did the Radical Republicans in Congress want?
“The 13th Amendment”
What two things did states have to do in order to re-enter the union?
The 13th amendment stated that
“Black Codes”
Southern governments began passing laws called Black Codes that would
List some things that happened to the freed slaves under these laws:
In addition to these unfair laws, many African Americans were the
.
“The 14th and 15th Amendments”
Congress was especially upset that Johnson did not support the
that would give freed slaves
and protect them from
. In June 1866, Congress passed the 14th Amendment
which stated that African Americans would have their
. By mid 1870, Congress
realized that freed saves had little chance of living free unless they had
. Congress passed
the 15th Amendment that guaranteed all
. However, women did not receive the right
to vote until
.
“Life in the New South”
List some of the changes happening in the South:
“Sharecropping in the South”
Many freed slaves and poor whites who wanted the chance to own their farms were
forced to become
. They
Land and would give part of their
to the landowner as
for the land. Many sharecroppers went into
when they couldn’t pay their rent. Most sharecroppers could never call any piece
of
.
“Hiram Revels: First African American Senator”
Why was February 25, 1870 such an important day in U.S. history?
What were some of Hiram Revels’ accomplishments?
Revels only spent
in the Senate, but spent the rest
of his life working for the
.
“Carpetbaggers and Scalawags”
List some reasons that Northerners wanted to move to the South during the
Reconstruction Era.
Southerners called these “Yankee invaders”
because the Northerners arrived in the South
Why did the Southerners dislike the carpetbaggers so much?
However, most of the carpetbaggers weren’t rich business people; most were
Southerners were angry because they felt the carpetbaggers
.
Scalawags were
who worked with the
or supported the
Southerners considered the scalawags
to the South
These so-called scalawags worked in the government to make sure that the
was
considered when developing plans for the states. Many people still use the terms
carpetbagger and scalawag in