Chapter 17.1 – Reconstruction Plans
1. What problems did the South face after the Civil War?
2. What is Reconstruction?
3. The name of Lincoln’s plan for Reconstruction was the ______.
List its parts.
a.
b.
c.
d.
e.
4. Why was Congress upset about Lincoln’s plan and refused to seat the first 3 states’
representatives?
5. Who were the Radical Republicans? What did they want?
6. Congress passed the ______Bill, but Lincoln refused to sign it.
List its parts.
a.
b.
c.
d.
7. Why do you think both Lincoln’s plan and the Radical Republicans excluded former
Confederate officers from their plans?
8. What government agency was established to help former slaves? What did it do?
9. In what area did the Freedman’s Bureau have the greatest success?
10. Give the details of Lincoln’s assassination. What larger conspiracy was this part of?
11. Who became President? Where was he from? How do you think Northerners felt about that?
12. How did Johnson feel about protecting/advancing the rights of African Americans?
13. Johnson’s plan was called the ______. List its parts.
a.
b.
c.
d.
e.
f.
14. What did the Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution do? When was it ratified?
Chapter 17.2 – Radicals in Control
1. What happened in Memphis in 1866? What can you infer about feelings of some people in the
South from this?
2. Why was Congress concerned about some of the elected members who were elected in 1865?
3. For what 2 reasons were many Northerners upset about Johnson’s plan?
4. What were black codes? Give examples.
5. What did many people think of the black codes?
6. What new power did Congress give to the Freedmen’s Bureau and to African Americans?
7. What was the Civil Rights Act of 1866 ? Why was it so important?
8. How did President Johnson react to those 2 bills? Why?
9. How did they become law?
10. What did the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution say? When was it ratified?
a.
b.
c.
d.
11. What group didn’t it apply to? When did they gain citizenship?
12. Which was the only Southern state to quickly ratify the 14th Amendment?
13. What was the outcome of the 1866 Congressional elections? What did Republicans in Congress
do as a result?
14. Why couldn’t President Johnson stop them?
15. What state was not affected as much by the First Reconstruction Act of 1867 ?
16. List the parts of the First Reconstruction Act.
a.
b.
c.
d.
17. What did the Second Reconstruction Actdo?
18. How did Republicans gain control of Southern state governments?
19. What were the last three states readmitted into the Union? When?
20. What law was most responsible for the impeachment of President Johnson? What did it say?
21. In impeachment proceedings, which house brings the charges?
22. Which house holds the trial?
23. What was Johnson’s defense for violating the law?
24. What was the outcome of the trial? Why?
25. Who was elected president in 1868? How was his election seen as approval of Congressional
(Radical Republican) reconstruction?
26. What was the last piece of Congressional (Radical) Reconstruction legislation? When did it go
into effect? What were Republicans hoping it would accomplish?