Turn in Ch. 22 Outlines!

12 Things you must know about Reconstruction in order

to ace your Final Exam….

What happened to Confederate leaders after the war?

O Most were given pardons by President Andrew Johnson.

O This allowed them to return to the Union and vote in United States elections.

How were the slaves freed?

O The process of freedom was not the same in each state. It came unevenly, and for some, months after the war.

What did the white South think of the Freedman’s Bureau?

O Many believed the agency threatened to upset white dominance in the South.

O They protested the Bureau’s goal of educating blacks in the South.

What was Lincoln’s 10% plan for Reconstruction?

O Lincoln wanted the South to rapidly rejoin the Union.

O It required only 10% of a state’s voters to swear loyalty oaths to the USA.

What were the Black Codes?O Limited free black movement and

labor options.O Their purpose was to ensure a stable

labor supply for the South (sharecroppers).

What did the 14th Amendment guarantee?

O Black citizenship.O This paved the way for 15th

Amendment (right to vote for black men).

When did “Radical” Reconstruction End?

O When federal troops were removed from the South in 1877.

Why were women’s activists disappointed with the 14th and 15th Amendments?

O The amendments ignored women who still did not have the right to vote.

What did the KKK do to try to achieve white racial supremacy in the South?

O Beatings, murders, scare tactics, and mutilation of blacks and white “carpetbaggers”

Why was President Andrew Johnson impeached in 1868?

O He dismissed Secretary of War, Edwin Stanton without Senate approval.

O Although impeached he did not have enough votes to remove him from office.

What did Secretary of State William Seward purchase in 1867?

O He purchased Alaska from Russia for $7.2 million.

O Called “Seward’s Folly,” “Seward’s Icebox” “Seward’s Polar Bear Garden”

How could Reconstruction have been more successful?

O If Thaddeus Stevens’s program of drastic economic reforms and protection of political rights had been enacted, much of the deep, lingering racism in the South may have been prevented…

Take the rest of class to work on Unit 7 Review Sheets, calculate grades, panic,

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