Reconstruction



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Reconstruction & The New South Story Guide

Part one - Reconstruction:

1. Lincoln’s Reconstruction Plan: Johnson’s Plan: Radical Republicans’ Plan:

2. Define each Reconstruction Amendment:

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Now that African Americans were given the right to vote, many began voting other African-Americans into office for the first time!

3. Why were newly elected African-American legislators removed from office?

4. Why was the KKK originally formed?

5. What was the purpose of the Freedmen’s Bureau?

6. What’s difference between Sharecropping & Tenant Farming?

Sharecropping: Tenant Farming:

Part two - The New South:

What were the two things the Bourbon Triumvirate wanted for Georgia after Reconstruction?

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9. Who were the three members of the Bourbon Triumvirate?

10. Bourbon Triumvirate ….. The Good: The Bad: The Ugly:

11. Define the term, New South:

12. Who coined the phrase?

What 2 things did Grady want for Atlanta?

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15. What was the purpose of the Atlanta Cotton States and International Exposition?

Spotlight on Tom Watson:

16. What group of people did Watson support at the start of his political career, but later turn his back on?

17. Rural Free Delivery Bill (RFD) -

18. As a member of the Populist party, what group of people most supported Tom Watson?

19. What were Jim Crow Laws?

20. How did the ruling in Plessy v Ferguson help Jim Crow Laws?

21. Which amendment did Jim Crow Laws violate?

22. Define disenfranchisement:

23. How were African-Americans kept from voting? Examples:

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21. Why did the Atlanta Race Riot of 1906 occur?

22. Compare and Contrast:

Booker T. Washington WEB DuBois

23. Who was Alonzo Herndon?

24. What was the Trial of Leo Frank?

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