Read pp. 376 - 382. Feel free to use class notes to answer the questions as well. Describe President Lincoln's planned approach to Reconstruction. What was the reconstruction Plan of the Radical Republicans in Congress? Explain how the Ten-Percent Plan and the Wade-Davis Bill reflected different approaches to the problem of bringing the Southern states back into the Union. How did the views of President Andrew Johnson on Reconstruction differ from the views of the Radical Republicans? Identify and explain the role of the Freedmen's Bureau. List some of the restrictions placed on blacks by the "Black Codes." How did these Codes help bring about the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1866? What was President Johnson's response to the establishment of the Freedmen's Bureau and the Civil Rights Act of 1866? List the provisions of the 14th. Amendment. What main benefits did it offer African Americans? Identify the provisions of the Reconstruction Act of 1867 and explain how the law fulfilled the major objectives of the Radical Republicans. Why was the Tenure of Office Act (1867) passed? How was it connected to the impeachment of President Andrew Johnson? Go to :Identify the candidates who ran for the Presidency in the 1868 election. What role did African American voters play in this election? What major political issue was addressed by the 15th. Amendment to the U. S. Constitution? Do you think that the Radical Republicans were justified in impeaching President Andrew Johnson? Explain your position. Why did most freed blacks become sharecroppers or tenant farmers during Reconstruction? What were the goals of the KKK? Identify the Congressional laws that were designed to protect citizens from racial violence. Terms/People- Be sure that every term listed below is discussed in the questions above. Highlight/underline the term/person in your above answers. * Andrew Johnson * Freedmen's Bureau * Reconstruction * Civil Rights Act of 1866 * Ten-Percent Plan * "Black Codes" * 15th. Amendment * 14th. Amendment * Radical Republicans * Reconstruction Act of 1867 * * Senator Charles Sumner (MA) impeachment * Cong. Thaddeus Stevens (PA) * Tenure of Office Act (1867) * Wade-Davis Bill (1864) * Edwin Stanton * Scalawag * Carpetbagger * Revels * Sharecropping
Read pp. 376 - 382. Feel free to use class notes to answer the questions as well. Describe President Lincoln's planned approach to Reconstruction. What was the reconstruction Plan of the Radical Republicans in Congress? Explain how the Ten-Percent Plan and the Wade-Davis Bill reflected different approaches to the problem of bringing the Southern states back into the Union. How did the views of President Andrew Johnson on Reconstruction differ from the views of the Radical Republicans? Identify and explain the role of the Freedmen's Bureau. List some of the restrictions placed on blacks by the "Black Codes." How did these Codes help bring about the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1866? What was President Johnson's response to the establishment of the Freedmen's Bureau and the Civil Rights Act of 1866? List the provisions of the 14th. Amendment. What main benefits did it offer African Americans? Identify the provisions of the Reconstruction Act of 1867 and explain how the law fulfilled the major objectives of the Radical Republicans. Why was the Tenure of Office Act (1867) passed? How was it connected to the impeachment of President Andrew Johnson? Go to :Identify the candidates who ran for the Presidency in the 1868 election. What role did African American voters play in this election? What major political issue was addressed by the 15th. Amendment to the U. S. Constitution? Do you think that the Radical Republicans were justified in impeaching President Andrew Johnson? Explain your position. Why did most freed blacks become sharecroppers or tenant farmers during Reconstruction? What were the goals of the KKK? Identify the Congressional laws that were designed to protect citizens from racial violence. Terms/People- Be sure that every term listed below is discussed in the questions above. Highlight/underline the term/person in your above answers. * Andrew Johnson * Freedmen's Bureau * Reconstruction * Civil Rights Act of 1866 * Ten-Percent Plan * "Black Codes" * 15th. Amendment * 14th. Amendment * Radical Republicans * Reconstruction Act of 1867 * Senator Charles Sumner (MA) * impeachment * Cong. Thaddeus Stevens (PA) * Tenure of Office Act (1867) * Wade-Davis Bill (1864) * Edwin Stanton * Scalawag * Carpetbagger * Revels * Sharecropping
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