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Chapter 2 Guided Reading
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Reconstruction
The Challenges of Reconstruction
➢ The Civil War ended on _________ ____, _______. ➢ What were the challenges of Reconstruction in the South? 1. Plantation, towns, and farms were in ruins. 2. _____________________________________________________________________________________ 3. President Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation had abolished slavery in rebelling states. 4. _____________________________________________________________________________________ 5. Former slaves given land. 6. _____________________________________________________________________________________ 7. _____________________________________________________________________________________
Early plans for Reconstruction ➢ Explain when and why the Freedmen’s Bureau was created:
➢ Explain President Lincoln’s plans for reconstruction and what happened afterwards with the “Ten-Percent Plan”:
➢ Thirteenth (13th) Amendment: __________________________________________________________________
➢ President Abraham Lincoln was assassinated on _________ ____, _______. The Politics of Reconstruction
Presidential Reconstruction
➢ Explain how President Johnson at first treated Southern Confederates and how it changed: __________________ ___________________________________________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________________________________ ➢ President Johnson considered African Americans and whites to be _____________________________________. ➢ Did President Johnson want change in the South? ____________ Give a reason for your answer: _____________ ___________________________________________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________________________________
The Black Codes
➢ Define Black Codes: __________________________________________________________________________ ➢ Common features of Black Codes in the southern states included: ● ______________________________________________________________________________ ● ______________________________________________________________________________ ● ______________________________________________________________________________ ● ______________________________________________________________________________ ● ______________________________________________________________________________ ● ______________________________________________________________________________ ● ______________________________________________________________________________ ● ______________________________________________________________________________ ● ______________________________________________________________________________ ● ______________________________________________________________________________
➢ Explain the aim of the Black Codes: ______________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________________________________
Congressional Reconstruction
➢ How did the Northern states feel about the Black Codes and explain what action Congress took? ___________________________________________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________________________________ ➢ Define Radical Republicans: ____________________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________________________________ ➢ Explain the Civil Rights Act of 1866 (pg. 27). ___________________________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________________
The Fourteenth (14th) Amendment
➢ Explain the Fourteenth (14th) Amendment: ________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________________________________ ➢ Explain how a Southern state was readmitted back into the Union: ______________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________________________________ ➢ Read the excerpt from the Fourteenth Amendment. Answer the following questions: o What is meant by “due process of law” (you can google the meaning, but reword the definition so you understand)?__________________________________________________________________________ o How did this amendment overturn the earlier Dred Scott decision? _____________________________________________________________________________________
The Impeachment of President Andrew Johnson
➢ Define impeachment: _________________________________________________________________________ ➢ Explain how/why President Andrew Johnson was put through the process of impeachment? _________________ ___________________________________________________________________________________________ What was the outcome? _______________________________________________________________________ ➢ Explain the Fifteenth (15th )Amendment: __________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________________________________ ➢ Fill in the chart below according to the chart on pg. 28.
President Johnson Southern States Radical Republicans Who should control the readmission of Southern States? When should Southern States be admitted?
Immediately; each state in charge of its own affairs
Only when most citizens in the state agree to support the Union and black citizens are given their full civil and political rights. Should Southern leaders be punished?
Almost all Southern rebels are pardoned by the President.
No punishment for former Confederate leaders Should the freed slaves be entitled to vote?
Johnson recommends that state govts. Give the franchise (voting) to
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➢ What did Southern society do to prevent African Americans from voting? _______________________________ ___________________________________________________________________________________________ ➢ What were some of the names of the groups that helped terrorize the African Americans? ___________________ ___________________________________________________________________________________________ ➢ What did the South do to prevent African Americans from voting that circumvented the 14th and 15th Amendments? _______________________________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________________________________ ➢ What was the result of these new laws? ___________________________________________________________ ➢ Define the Solid South: ________________________________________________________________________
The System of Racial Segregation: the Reign of “Jim Crow”
➢ Define Segregation Laws: ______________________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________________________________ ➢ The Segregation Laws were also known as _________________ _________________. ➢ Who was Homer Plessy and what was the ruling in Plessy v. Ferguson? _________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________________________________ ➢ How was segregation practiced in the North? ______________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________________________________
The African American Response
➢ Name two ways that African Americans responded to these adverse conditions? ___________________________ ___________________________________________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________________________________ Focus on Florida
➢ Growing cotton became secondary after 1865 to: 1. ____________________________________________________________________________________ 2. ____________________________________________________________________________________ 3. ____________________________________________________________________________________ 4. ____________________________________________________________________________________ ➢ The state’s population nearly _____________ in two decades after 1860 and almost half of these were _____________ _____________. ➢ Who is Jonathan C. Gibbs? _____________________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________________________________ ➢ Who Josiah T. Wells? _________________________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________________________________ ➢ Define debt peonage: _________________________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________________________________ ➢ Summarize the turpentine camp situation: _________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________________________________
Chapter 2 Guided Reading
Subject: AP U.S. Government & Politics
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