Chapter 12 (Reconstruction) Know and Do List

Chapter 12, Section 1

• what Reconstruction was and why it was necessary
• Three plans for Reconstruction
- key features of Lincoln's plan
- key features of Johnson's plan
- key features of Congressional Reconstruction
• significance of: Freedmans's Bureau, black codes, Fourteenth Amendment, Fifteenth
Amendment

Chapter 12, Section 2

• conditions in the South after the War
• impact of Reconstruction on politics in South
• life for former slaves
- new freedoms
- education
- churches
- political leadership
• changes in Southern economy
- "40 acres and a mule"
- sharecropping/tenant farming

Chapter 12, Section 3

• backlash to Reconstruction
- the Ku Klux Klan
• the legacy of Reconstruction