Reconstruction Unit Study Guide Name _____________________________

Date ______________________________

1. The period after the Civil War, when southern states rejoined the Union is known as

______________________Reconstruction______________________________

2. These were laws that denied African American many civil rights

_____________________Black Codes_______________________________

3. Northerners who traveled to the South after the war to help Southerners in need:

____________________Carpetbaggers________________________________

4. Southerners supporting Reconstruction policies:

_______________________Scalawags_____________________________

5. What were the aims (goals) of Abraham Lincoln:

_______________________To end the war and preserve the union

6. What were the aims (goals) of Vice President Andrew Johnson:

_____________Humiliate (embarrass) southern elite____________________________________

7. Explain why Reconstruction policy changed.
- Lincoln wanted to preserve the union, but then he was assassinated and President Johnson took
over. Their aims were much different. President Johnson just wanted to humiliate the rich southerners
and make them beg for forgiveness.
8. In your own words, explain what the 13th amendment means:

____Abolish Slavery _____

9. In your own words, explain what the 14th amendment means:

___ Equal Citizenship for African americans___

10. In your own words, explain what the 15th amendment means:

_Men of all races can vote _________________________________________________________________

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True or false:

11. Most freedmen immediately migrated to the North and West after the Civil War.

FALSE
12.General Shermans forty acres and a mule solved African Americans land and job problems.

FALSE

13. African Americans voted and held elective office during Reconstruction.

TRUE

14. What effect did Reconstruction have on African Americans? Be sure to tell about the way
Reconstruction changed the different aspects of their lives.

_____They were excited and relieved to be free from slavery, but many of them were scared and
intimated by the KKK and other southerners. It was scary for them to have to find jobs and provide for
their family.

15. Which Federal agency was set up in 1865 to provide food, schools, and medical care to freed
slaves and poor southern whites? Freedmens Bureau

16. Southern planters found a new way to work their land. This new way was called

____Sharecropping

17. This discriminatory group formed during the 1860s to terrorize African Americans.

_____KKK

18. The separation of different races (blacks and whites) is called ____segregation .

19. This happened to Abraham Lincoln. ___Assassination

20. The president that followed Abraham Lincoln was ___Andrew Johnson.

21. Voting rules including reading tests, grandfather clauses and poll taxes limited the

_____political rights_____ of African Americans.

22. Compare and Contrast Scalawags and Carpetbaggers.

Scalawags Same Carpetbaggers

23. Which President was impeached? __Andrew Johnson

24. This was when the Supreme Court ruled that separate but equal was acceptable.

___Plessy vs. Ferguson___

25. This means to set free, and southern African Americans were granted this by Lincoln.

____emancipation __

Find out what happened to Abraham Lincoln tell the Who, What, When, Where, and Why.

________John Wilkes booth shot Abraham Lincoln because he did not agree with Reconstruction
policy. ______________________________________________________________________________

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