17-1 and 17-2

After the Civil War the economy of the South was badly damaged and many banks and merchants went bankrupt.

• True

• False

Lincoln's main vision for Reconstruction was to ​ (a)   the nation as ​ (b)   as possible.

• reunite
• quickly and painlessly
• divide
• slowly

Match the following

• leaders of the Confederacy

• northern-born Republican office-holders who had moved to the South

• Freedmen's Bureau

• an agency that gave relieft for freedpeopleand some poor southerners

• carpetbaggers

• Congress refused to readmit southern states into the Union in 1865 because the representatives of the new governments had been....

To begin the process of ​ (a)   , President Johnson first appointed a ​ (b)   for each ​ (c)   .

• Reconstruction
• temporary governor
• state
• permanent governor
• county
• Repentance

first African American U.S. Senator

• Hiram Revels

• Sojourner Truth

• Langston Hughes

• Frederick Douglass

Why was the Ku Klux Klan able to obtain a great deal of power in the South before 1870?

• Local governments did little to stop the group's violence

• The Klan provided jobs for people who agreed with them

• The Klan received public support from Congress

• Local governments had no legal right to prohibit the group's activities.

Match the following

• Compromise of 1877

• Lincoln's plan for readmitting southern states to the Union

• Jim Crow laws

• enforced segregation, or separation of whites from African Americans in public places

• Radical Republicans

• Thaddeus Stevens was a leader of this group that wanted the gederal government to be more involved in justice for African Americans

• Ten Percent Plan

• agreement in which the Democrats accepted Republican Rutherford B. Hayes as president in exchange for the removal of federal troops from the South

At the urging of Radical Republicans, Congress passed a new bill that would

• limit African Americans' rights

• abolish the Black Codes

• give the Freedmen's Bureau more power

• pardon those who committed crimes against African Americans

Match the following

• 14th Amendment

• gave African American men the right to vote

• 13th Amendment

• granted citizenship to African Americans

• 15th Amendment

• abolished slavery

Match the following

• Plessy v Ferguson

• laws passed in the south to enforce segregation

• black codes

• laws passed in the south to make life difficult for African Americans, included poll taxes and literacy tests for African Americans attempting to vote

• Jim Crow laws

• case that decided that segregation was not unconstitutional

• Civil Rights Act of 1866

• laws passed by Congress that said all people born in the US would have full rights