Chapter 17 Section 1 Reconstruction Board Questions

U.S. HISTORY CHAPTER 17 SECTION 1 RECONSTRUCTION BOARD QUESTIONS

2) WHERE IS APPOMATTOX COURT HOUSE?

3) WHERE WAS THE CAPITAL OF THE CONFEDERACY?

4) WHO WAS JOHN BROWN?

5) HOW DID THE NORTH WIN THE WAR? TERMS AND PEOPLE

• RECONSTRUCTION • AMNESTY • RADICAL • FREEDMEN • TEN PERCENT PLAN • RADICAL REPUBLICANS TERMS AND PEOPLE

• THADDEUS STEVENS • WADE-DAVIS BILL • FREEDMEN’S BUREAU • JOHN WILKES BOOTH • ANDREW JOHNSON • THIRTEENTH AMENDMENT RECONSTRUCTION

• IN THE PERIOD AFTER THE CIVIL WAR PEOPLE HAD MANY QUESTIONS. • HOW WILL THE COUNTRY RECOVER FROM THIS. • HOW WILL THE SOUTH RECOVER WITH SO MUCH DESTROYED. RECONSTRUCTION

• THE SOUTH WAS RAVAGED WITH MOST OF THE WAR TAKING PLACE IN THE SOUTH. • HOUSES, FIELDS, ROADS, BRIDGES, AND RAILROADS DESTROYED. • WERE WILL PEOPLE WORK AND MAKE A LIVING. LINCOLN’S PLAN

• THE TEN PERCENT PLAN - WHEN 10% OF A CONFEDERATE STATE PLEDGE LOYALTY TO THE UNION THEY COULD RE-ENTER THE UNION AND WRITE A NEW STATE CONSTITUTION BANNING SLAVERY. LINCOLN’S PLAN

• LINCOLN ALSO PROMISED AMNESTY TO ANY WHITE CONFEDERATES WHO WERE NOT LEADERS TO RE-ENTER THE UNION WITHOUT PUNISHMENT. LINCOLN’S PLAN

• HE ALSO BELIEVED EDUCATED AFRICAN AMERICANS SHOULD HAVE THE RIGHT TO VOTE. EVEN MORE SO IF THEY FOUGHT IN THE UNION ARMY. • HE WOULD NOT FORCE THE SOUTHERN STATES TO ALLOW AFRICAN AMERICANS THE RIGHT TO VOTE. LINCOLN’S PLAN

• IN 1864 - THREE STATES THAT THE UNION ARMY OCCUPIED- LOUISIANA, ARKANSAS, AND TENNESSEE ESTABLISHED GOVERNMENTS UNDER LINCOLN’S PLAN. RIVAL PLAN

• RADICAL REPUBLICANS THOUGHT LINCOLN WAS BEING TO EASY ON THE SOUTH AND WANTED A POLICY THAT PUNISHED THE SOUTH MORE HARSHLY FOR THE CIVIL WAR. • THADDEUS STEVENS, “ THE SOUTHS INSTITUTIONS MUST BE BROKEN UP AND RELAID, OR ALL OUR BLOOD AND TREASURE HAVE BEEN SPENT IN VAIN.” THE WADE-DAVIS BILL • IN JULY 1864 THE WADE-DAVIS BILL WAS PASSED. • TERMS OF BILL - A MAJORITY OF WHITE MALES MUST SWEAR LOYALTY TO THE UNION. • SECOND - A STATE CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION COULD BE HELD, BUT ONLY WHITE MALES WHO SWORE THEY HAD NEVER TAKEN UP ARMS AGAINST THE UNION COULD VOTE. FREEDMEN’S BUREAU

• IN MARCH 1865 THE FREEDMEN’S BUREAU WAS ESTABLISHED TO HELP FORMER SLAVES. • THIS HELP AFRICAN AMERICANS TRANSITION FROM SLAVE TO FREEMEN. • THEY ALSO EDUCATED THE AFRICAN AMERICANS TO READ AND WRITE. SETTING UP SCHOOLS WITH TEACHERS FROM THE NORTH. LINCOLN’S ASSASSINATED • WHILE WATCHING A PLAY ON APRIL 14TH, 1865 IN FORD’S THEATER IN WASHINGTON D.C. • JOHN WILKES BOOTH AN ACTOR AND A CONFEDERATE SYMPATHIZER, ENTER LINCOLN’S BOX AT THE THEATER AND SHOOT HIM IN THE BACK OF THE HEAD. LINCOLN’S ASSASSINATED

• BOOTH ESCAPED THE THEATER AND WENT ON THE RUN. • HE WAS CAUGHT ON APRIL 26TH. • HE WAS CORNERED IN A BARN AND REFUSED TO SURRENDER, SO HE WAS SHOT TO DEATH. ANDREW JOHNSON

• ANDREW JOHNSON THE VICE PRESIDENT BECOMES PRESIDENT AFTER LINCOLN’S DEATH. • JOHNSON IS FROM TENNESSEE. • JOHNSON WANTS TO PUNISH THE SOUTH AND HAS NO INTENTION OF HELPING AFRICAN AMERICANS. ANDREW JOHNSON

• MOST SOUTHERNERS WERE GIVEN AMNESTY AFTER THEY SWORE AN OATH OF LOYALTY TO THE UNION. • JOHNSON BELIEVED IN LETTING THE SOUTHERN STATES HANDLE RESTORATION.