THE CIVIL WAR AND RECONSTRUCTION: 1861-1876

Directions: Answer all questions on separate piece of paper

Secessionists

1) How did Lincoln respond to secession? Was his response universally representative of
Northern sentiments?
2) Why was the Confederate Constitution written as it was? How does it reflect what
Southerners believed to be the ideals of the Founding Fathers as established in the U.S.
Constitution?

The Civil War: 1861-1865

3) How did Lincoln’s policy toward the South change after Ft. Sumter?
4) What social, political and military events and issues inspired Lincoln to issue the
Emancipation Proclamation? How did it change the focus of the war?
5) What did the Emancipation Proclamation say? Was it truly progressive or simply a political
move? Why?

Reconstruction: 1864-1876

6) How did Lincoln’s plan for Reconstruction reflect his initial approach to dealing with the
South following secession?
7) What was the significance of the Civil War Amendments?
8) What was the Freedman’s Bureau? Assess its effectiveness and the support it had politically
during the presidencies of Lincoln and Johnson.
9) What was the role of the “Veto Proof Congress” during Reconstruction?
10) What limits to the freedom of blacks were established in the South (through legislation,
economics, and social policy)?
11) What legislative attempts were made to prevent Southern violence against Blacks,
Carpetbaggers, and Scalawags?
12) Why did Reconstruction end and under what terms?
Key Terms/Concepts

Ex Parte Merriman
Confederacy
Union
Copperheads
Ft. Sumter
Anaconda Plan Key People
Antietam
Emancipation Proclamation Abraham Lincoln
Gettysburg Jefferson Davis
Sherman’s March To The Sea Andrew Johnson
Freedman’s Bureau Radical Republicans
10% Plan Nathan Bedford Forrest
Wade-Davis Bill Scalawags
Black Codes/Jim Crow Laws Carpetbaggers
Civil War Amendments Ulysses S. Grant
Civil Rights Act (1866) Rutherford B. Hayes
Ex Parte Milligan Samuel J. Tilden
Reconstruction Act (1867)
Tenure of Office Act
Johnson Impeachment
Enforcement Act/Force Act
KKK/White League
KKK Act
Mississippi Plan
sharecropping
Election of 1876
Compromise of 1877