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Chapter 18 the Reconstruction Era p 476-495

1. Who were the freedmen? What problems did they face after the civil War?
2. Explain Lincoln’s plan for Reconstruction.
3. Why did congress create the Freedmen’s Bureau?
4. Who assassinated President Lincoln? Who became the new President?
5. Why did the southern states pass the Black Codes?
6. Who were the Radical Republicans? What were their two main goals?
7. Why did the Republicans propose the 14th amendment? What did it grant people
born in the US?
8. What did the Reconstruction Act of 1867 require the former Confederate states to
do?
9. Why did the Republicans vote to impeach President Johnson?
10. Why do you think the Republicans nominated Ulysses S. Grant as their next
President? Do you think he would make a good President? Why or why not?
11. What did the 15th amendment forbid?
12. Why did many Republicans support the 15th amendment?
13. Why did many whites dislike scalawags and carpetbaggers?
14. Why did many white southerners form secret societies like the KKK?
15. Why did African Americans fear the KKK?
16. How did sharecropping lock many ex-slaves and poor whites into a cycle of
poverty?
17. How did poll taxes, literacy tests, and grandfather clauses restrict African
Americans from voting?
18. Define segregation (also known as “Jim Crow Laws”).
19. What did the Supreme Court rule in the case Plessy vs. Ferguson?
20. What is a lynching?