Chapter 18: Reconstruction (1865-1877) Part 1

MONDAY
Chapter 18 Vocabulary
Define the vocabulary words
1) Radical Republicans
7) Freedmens school
2) Reconstruction
8) Sharecropping
3) Freedmens Bureau
9) Ku Klux Klan
4) Black codes
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Fifteenth Amendment
5) Civil rights
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Panic of 1873
6) Fourteenth Amendment
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Compromise of 1877
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TUESDAY
Andrew Johnson Impeachment Ticket
1) Design an Andrew Johnson Impeachment Ticket; use the ticket on page 537 in the
textbook as an example.
2) Write 10 or more sentences explaining why you believe President Andrew Johnson
should OR should not be impeached for firing Secretary of War, Edwin Stanton.
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WEDNESDAY
Build Your Own School
1) Draw a design for your school.
2) Write 10 or more sentences describing your school.
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THURSDAY
Chapter 18 Review Questions (ON THE BACK)
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Chapter 18 Review Questions

1) What amendment to the Constitution banned slavery in the U.S. after the Civil War?
2) What was the process the U.S. government used to readmit the Confederation states to the Union
after the Civil War?
3) With malice toward none, with charity for all was part of which speech by President Abraham
Lincoln?
4) What was a federal agency set up to help former slaves after the Civil War? A federal agency that
set up schools and hospitals for African Americans and distributed clothes, food, and fuel
throughout the South.
5) After the assassination of President Lincoln, who became President?
6) What were laws passed in the Southern states that limited the freedom of former slaves?
7) What is a vocabulary word for rights granted to all citizens?
8) Andrew Johnson was a member of what political party?
9) Most Congressmen were members of what political party?
10) What was an amendment to the U.S. Constitution, passed in 1868 that made all persons born or
naturalized in the United States (including former slaves) citizens of the country?
11) What law passed in 1867 gave control of Reconstruction to Congress and divided the South into
five military districts, each run by an army commander?
12) What were schools that were set up to educate newly freed African Americans?
13) Union General William Sherman suggested that abandoned land in South Carolina be divided
into how many acre parcels and given to freedmen?
14) What is a system in which landowners gave farm workers land, seed, and tools in return for a part
of the crops they raised?
15) Who won the Presidential Election of 1868 to become the eighteenth President of the U.S.?
16) What amendment to the U.S. Constitution stated that citizens could not be stopped from voting
on account of race, color, or previous conditions of servitude?
17) What was a racists group formed in 1866 that terrorized African Americans, wanted to restore
Democratic control of the South, and keep former slaves powerless?
18) In 1873, what was a financial crisis in which banks closed and the credit system collapsed?
19) Who became nineteenth President after the Election of 1876?
20) What was an agreement to decide the Election of 1876, remove federal troops from the South,
build railroads from the South to the West, and provide federal funds to rebuild the South?
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