Read Pp. 376-382. Feel Free to Use Class Notes to Answer the Questions As Well

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Read Pp. 376-382. Feel Free to Use Class Notes to Answer the Questions As Well

Read pp. 376-382. Feel free to use class notes to answer the questions as well.

1. Describe President Lincoln's planned approach to Reconstruction. 2. What was the reconstruction Plan of the Radical Republicans in Congress? 50% of the state would have to pledge allegiance to the Union and to give newly freed slaves their rights. Also had to ratify the 14th Amendment 3. Explain how the Ten-Percent Plan and the Wade-Davis Bill reflected different approaches to the problem of bringing the Southern states back into the Union. The 10% plan made the President responsible for the Reconstruction process, which made it easier and more lenient for the state to rejoin the Union. The Wade-Davis Bill made Congress responsible for Reconstruction, which made it harder and much less lenient for the states to rejoin the Union. 4. How did the views of President Andrew Johnson on Reconstruction differ from the views of the Radical Republicans? Radicals were upset that Johnson’s plan failed to address the needs of former slaves in 3 areas: land, voting rights, and protection under the law. 5. Identify and explain the role of the Freedmen's Bureau. -The Freedman’s Bureau was a federal agency intended to help freed slaves find food, clothes and a job. & provide education 6. List some of the restrictions placed on blacks by the "Black Codes." How did these Codes help bring about the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1866? 1.1. Against the law to carry weapons/could not buy land/interracial marriage outlawed/couldn’t serve on juries It provided them with schools, homes and communities it also tried to help give them opportunities outside of what they already had available.

Discriminatory laws, leads to 14th amendment

7. What was President Johnson's response to the establishment of the Freedmen's Bureau and the Civil Rights Act of 1866? He vetoed both, but Congress overrode it.

8. List the provisions of the 14th. Amendment. What main benefits did it offer African Americans? It outlawed black codes 9. Identify the provisions of the Reconstruction Act of 1867 and explain how the law fulfilled the major objectives of the Radical Republicans. placed the south into 5 military districts until the States ratified the 14th Amendment, 10. Why was the Tenure of Office Act (1867) passed? How was it connected to the impeachment of President Andrew Johnson? To put Johnson in a tough spot when he fired the Secretary of War (Edwin Stanton). Johnson was found not guilty 11. Go to http://www.270towin.com :Identify the candidates who ran for the Presidency in the 1868 election. What role did African American voters play in this election? ULYSSES S GRANT 12. What major political issue was addressed by the 15th. Amendment to the U. S. Constitution? Black men had the right to vote 13. Do you think that the Radical Republicans were justified in impeaching President Andrew Johnson? Explain your position. 14. Why did most freed blacks become sharecroppers or tenant farmers during Reconstruction? 15. What were the goals of the KKK? Identify the Congressional laws that were designed to protect citizens from racial violence. Terms/People- Be sure that every term listed below is discussed in the questions above. Highlight/underline the term/person in your answer.

* Andrew Johnson * Freedmen's Bureau * Reconstruction * Civil Rights Act of 1866 * Ten-Percent Plan * "Black Codes" * 15th. Amendment * 14th. Amendment * Radical Republicans * Reconstruction Act of 1867 * Senator Charles Sumner (MA) * impeachment * Cong. Thaddeus Stevens (PA) * Tenure of Office Act (1867) * Wade-Davis Bill (1864) * Edwin Stanton

* Scalawag * Carpetbagger * Hiram Revels * Sharecropping * Ku Klux Klan (KKK)

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