Reconstruction Study Guide

 

  1. When does Reconstruction take place?

 

 

  1. What needed to be “Reconstructed” in the South post-Civil War?

 

 

  1. What were Lincoln’s ideas in regards to Reconstruction?

 

 

 

  1. Who were the Radical Republicans? What were their goals?

 

 

  1. What was the Freedman’s Bureau?

 

 

  1. What was Johnson’s Reconstruction plan?

 

 

 

  1. Why was Congress upset with Reconstruction under Johnson?

 

 

 

  1. What were Black Codes?

 

 

 

  1. What was the Civil Rights Act? What does it eventually turn into?

 

 

 

  1. How does the argument over the Civil Rights Act give Congress the green light to take over Reconstruction?

 

 

 

  1. What were the terms under Congressional (Radical) Reconstruction?

 

 

 

  1. Describe the circumstances surrounding Johnson’s impeachment.

 

 

 

 

  1. Who were Carpetbaggers? Scalawags?

 

 

  1. What party came to control southern politics in the years immediately after the War? What factors helped cause this?

 

 

 

  1. Why did many southerners become angry with Republican rule in the south?

 

 

  1. What was the role of the KKK?

 

 

  1. How did the election of 1876 help end Reconstruction?

 

 

 

  1. What happened to the # of blacks participating in elections in the south after 1877? Why?

 

 

  1. How did many blacks in the south earn a living after Reconstruction? What would have been their goal and why could they not obtain it?

 

 

 

  1. What was the Panic of 1873? What caused it? What followed it?

 

 

 

 

  1. What kind of impact did the economy of the 1870s and corruption/scandals have on politics?