Monday

 We will finish chapter 22 in The American Pageant,"The Ordeal of Reconstruction". You should have some time to work on the questions below. I'll hand out a reading packet for the trip, but we will be having a test on Monday. I will post some things you will need to know about the Reconstruction on the blog tomorrow.

1) What was the fate of Confederate leaders after the Civil War?
2) What was the state of the postwar economy in the South?
3) What did emancipation mean to Southern blacks?
4) What was the 13th Amendment?
5) What was the Freedman's Bureau?  Accomplishments?
6)Why was Andrew Johnson included on the Republican ticket in 1864?
7)  What was Lincoln's plan for Reconstruction?
8)  What was the Wade-Davis Bill?
9) What was Johnson's plan for Reconstruction?
10) What were the black codes?  Purpose?
11) What was the 14th Amendment?
12) What was the basis of the battle between Johnson and Congress?
13) What was the 15th Amendment?
14) What were the accomplishments of the Radical Reconstruction state governments?
15) Why was Johnson impeached?
16) What was the Ku Klux Klan?  What did they do?
17)  Why was Johnson acquitted in his impeachment trial?
18)  Was Reconstruction effective? 

1. At the beginning of the Civil War, Johnson was the only Senator from a seceding state to do what? 

2. What did the Tenure of Office Act state? 

3. Who was the Secretary of War that Johnson wanted to remove? 

4. How many votes short of the 2/3 required to impeach in the Senate was the vote? 

5. Do you believe defying the Tenure of Office Act reason enough to impeach Johnson? Why? If not why do you believe Congress moved ahead anyway?