RECONSTRUCTION: Rebuilding America AFTER the Civil War

My Reconstruction Plan / President Andrew John’s Plan / Congress’ Reconstruction Plan
In this section, pretend you are Vice President Andrew Johnson. The Civil War had just ended and the president before you, Abraham Lincoln, has just been assassinated, or killed. Now YOU are the President of the United States and YOU have to help plan the Reconstruction of the United States. You are the leader of the country, and the country needs rebuilding and healing from 4 years of bloody war and a bitter fight about the issue of slavery. One million Americans have been killed or hurt in the war, families have been separated and jobs have been lost. The North is angry at the Confederate states, but as the President you have to help them recover and rejoin the Union. What is your Reconstruction plan? Write at least 5 things you plan to do…
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Vocabulary:
-abolish= to end
-Union= the North states
-Confederate= the South states
-Amendment= a law added to the Constitution
-Constitution= the laws of the United States
-Congress= government leaders in D.C.
  1. What was one of the first steps toward Reconstruction after the end of the Civil War?
  1. What did the 13th Amendment do?
  1. What was Johnson’s plan to readmit (or allow) Confederate states to rejoin the Union?
  1. Under Johnson’s plan though, Southern states could pass laws called ______.
The Black Codes said:
-African American men did not have the right to ______
-African Americans could not own ______or ______
-They could not take certain ______
  1. How did Congress feel about the black codes?
  1. What did Congress think about Johnson’s Reconstruction plan?
  1. So…members of Congress began ______.
/ p. 518-519
  1. Under Congress’ Reconstruction Plan of 1867, 20,000 federal troops were sent to the South. What were the troops responsible for?
  1. What was the Freedmen’s Bureau?
  1. The Freedmen’s Bureau was important because it helped build ______and ______for blacks in the ______.
  1. For the first time in United States history, ______became ______. Elected officials are government leaders chosen by the people to lead.
  1. How did many white Southerners feel about Congress’ Reconstruction plan?
  1. What did a group of white Southerners do after the new state governments repealed, or ended, the black codes?
  1. What did Klan members do to African Americans?
  1. (See p. 519) The Congress Reconstruction plan said Confederate states had to accept two new ______in order to join the Union.
  1. The Fourteenth Amendment said African Americans….
  1. The Fifteenth Amendment said African American men….