CHAPTER 12 ~ THE RECONSTRUCTION ERA 1865-1877



Read page 401 ~ In the space below, describe what southerners were facing…During the era of Reconstruction, what 3 factors was the federal government struggling?ABCWhat was the issue about southern states rejoining the Union?What was the issue about rebuilding the southern economy?What did the 13th Amendment not grant?Lincoln’s Ten Percent Plan…What did the “Radical Republicans” advocate and why? Wade-Davis Bill ~ Freedmen’s Bureau ~ Johnson’s Plan to restore the Union…Southerners aim to restore old ways & black codes…Civil Rights Act of 1866 ~ Fourteenth Amendment ~ Explain why Congress impeaches the President…Fifteenth Amendment ~ ***Check your answers with the chart on page 409***How did African Americans use political power?Scalawags ~ Carpetbaggers ~ Views on women’s suffrage…School systems…segregation v. integration…In what ways did freed people build new communities:Work and family…Schools and churches…Uneven distribution of land resulted in…Sharecropping (chart is also on page 416) ~ Share-tenancy ~ Tenant farming ~ Violence undermines reform efforts…Ku Klux Klan ~Federal Government responds…Enforcement Acts (also on chart, page 409) ~End of Reconstruction…describe other important issues…Describe how corruption was a problem…also refer to the infographic on page 420Why did Reconstruction end?Evaluate Reconstruction’s effects…read and there is also on chart on page 427African Americans…Women’s Suffrage…Effects on state & national politics…Effects on state & federal power… ***REVIEW THE QUICK STUDY GUIDE CHARTS ON PAGE 428 AND THE TIMELINE ON PAGE 428-429*** ................
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