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Reconstruction Scavenger Hunt 18

Date
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1. What was the Reconstruction?

http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/aaohtml/exhibit/aopart5.html
2. Paraphrase the 13th Amendment to the Constitution, and provide the date that it was
ratified on.
http://www.loc.gov/rr/program/bib/ourdocs/13thamendment.html
3. What did John Wilkes Booth do on April 14, 1865 just five days after the Civil War
had ended?
http://teaching.msa.maryland.gov/000001/000000/000060/html/t60.html
4. Who were the Radical Republicans, and what did they believe?
http://www.ushistory.org/us/35b.asp
5. Who was Lincoln's Vice President that took over as President after his assassination,
and how did he get along with the Radical Republicans? Why do you think Lincoln
chose a Southern Democrat as his Vice President?
http://www.whitehouse.gov/about/presidents/andrewjohnson/
6. What did the Radical Republicans attempt to do to President Johnson? How close did
they come to doing so?
http://www.historyplace.com/unitedstates/impeachments/johnson.htm
7. What was sharecropping, and was it good or bad for newly freed black Southerners
(why)?
http://www.history.com/topics/sharecropping
8. What were Black Codes, and what did the Radical Republicans do in response to their
creation?
http://spartacus-educational.com/USASblackcodes.htm
9. What was the purpose of the Freedmens Bureau?
http://www.history.com/topics/freedmens-bureau

10. What did Thaddeus Stevens (a Radical Republican leader) want to do to Southern
plantations after the Civil War?
http://www.neh.gov/humanities/2012/novemberdecember/feature/remarkable-radicalthaddeus-stevens
11. What right did Charles Sumner (a Radical Republican leader) believe that all Africans
Americans needed to have if they were obtain equality?
http://www.ushistory.org/us/35b.asp
12. What were carpetbaggers, and how did people in the south view them?
http://www.history.com/topics/carpetbaggers-and-scalawags
13. What were scalawags?
http://www.history.com/topics/carpetbaggers-and-scalawags
14. What did the Military Reconstruction Acts call for?
http://www.u-s-history.com/pages/h417.html
15. What were the Enforcement Acts meant to do, and what powers did they give to the
President?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enforcement_Acts
16. What Civil War hero became President in 1868?
http://www.whitehouse.gov/about/presidents/ulyssessgrant/
17. Paraphrase the 14th and 15th Amendments to the Constitution, and provide the dates
that each was ratified on.
http://law2.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/conlaw/powers13th14th15th.htm
18. What was the purpose of the Ku Klux Klan?
http://home.wlu.edu/~lubint/touchstone/KKK-Fisher.htm
19. What was the Compromise of 1877, and how did it affect Reconstruction?
http://www.history.com/topics/compromise-of-1877
20. How did the "New South" differ from the antebellum South?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_South