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Chapter 12 Notetaking Study Guide
Now you are ready to answer the Chapter 12 Focus Question: What were the short-term
and long-term effects of the Civil War?
Complete the following chart to help you answer this question. Use the notes that you
took for each section.
Rebuilding a Nation
As the Civil War ended, the nation faced enormous challenges:
• much of the South lay in ruins
• the homeless needed food and shelter
• many in the North and South felt hatred towards each other
Lincoln’s Plan
Radical Republican Plan
Ten Percent Plan
Wade-Davis Bill
• abolition of slavery by state governments
• loyalty oath form 50% of state's voters
• former Confederates that swear loyalty pardoned
• abolition of slavery by state governments
• 10% state voter loyalty oath
• Confederate volunteers barred from voting and holding office
The Freedmen’s Bureau first duty was to ______________________________________
provide emergency relief to people displaced
_______________________________________________________________________.
(made homeless) by war
Battle Over Reconstruction
Radical Reconstruction
• _______________________________
imposed military rule on all Southern governThe Reconstruction Act of 1867
ments that did not ratify the Fourteenth Amendment.
• During Radical Reconstruction, _______________________
played an important role
African Americans
in politics; and women were given _____________________.
property rights
• Southern states opened ___________________
for the first time.
public schools
• Legislators spread _______________
more
evenly
and made fairer _______________.
taxes
voting rules
End of Reconstruction
As Radical Republican support died, many called for local self-government and
_______________________________________________________________________.
withdrawal of troops from the South
The end of Reconstruction was finalized with ___________________________________.
the election of Rutherford B. Hayes in 1876
Southern whites prevented African Americans from voting with techniques such as
_____________
and _________________.
a poll tax
literacy tests
The South’s economy began to __________
recover
due to industries based on _____________.
raw materials
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Johnson’s Plan
Radical Republican Goals
• Southern states ratify Thirteenth
• prevent former Confederates from regaining control of Southern politics
Amendment
• offered amnesty to former Confederates
• protect freedmen and guarantee them the right to vote
• allowed Southern states to elect members to Congress