Main Idea Questions

1.  What major challenges did the North face after the Civil War in reconstructing the South?

2.  How did Reconstruction policies change over time? 

3.  What impact did Reconstruction have on blacks in the South.  

4.  What political or economical factors led to the end of Reconstruction?  

Terms

1. Reconstruction - 
   
2. Lincoln’s Plan -
   
3. Radical Republicans - 
   
4. The Freedmen’s Bureau -
   
5. St. Helena Island - 
   
6. Johnson’s Plan - 
   
7. Black Codes - 
   
8. Convict Lease - 
   
9. 14th Amendment - 
   
10. Military Reconstruction Act -
    
11. Command of the Army Act -
    
12. Tenure of Office Act - 
    
13. 15th Amendment - 
    
14. Black Churches - 
    
15. Sharecropping - 
    
16. Carpetbaggers - 
    
17. Ku Klux Klan - 
    
18. Election of 1868 - 
    
19. Greenbacks - 
    
20. Panic of 1873 - 
    
21. Election of 1877 - 
    

Links

Civil War Reconstruction - Library of Congress

Grant & Reconstruction

The Reconstruction Amendments