Thursday

 Today we are going to finish presentations and begin the Reconstruction.

We will read chapter 22 in The American Pageant,"The Ordeal of Reconstruction", and answer the following questions:

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. What did Lincoln's Plan come to be known as?

2. Why was it called the "Ironclad Oath" under the Radical Republicans plan? 

3. What did both Lincoln and Congress agree upon in their Reconstruction plans? 

4. The Black Codes were an effort by southern states to do what? 

5. Why do you believe Johnson's plan was forgiving to the south?