Bell Work Reconstruction

BW 1

• Describe what makes it difficult to make up after a fight. What are some things that keep bugging you even after you and a friend have become friends again?

Bell Work 2

• In your own words, without looking in your notebook, describe amnesty.

• Predict what hardships freedmen might experience after the Civil War.

Bell Work 3 1/14/14

• Use your notetaking guide to compare Lincoln’s 10 percent plan to the Wade Davis Bill. Write in complete sentences.

Bell Work 3 1/15/14

• What were the two plans for reconstruction called? Which was lenient? Which was strict?

Reconstruction plans

Lincoln’s 10 Percent Plan• Lincoln = Lenient (EASY)

• 10% of voters have to be loyal

• Abolish slavery• Amnesty for confederates

with loyalty oath

Wade-Davis Bill• Wade-Davis = Difficult (hard)

• 50% of voters have to be loyal• Abolish slavery• Confederates were banned

from voting for representatives

Bell Work 4

• What were the two plans for reconstruction?• Which one was more lenient? Which was

strict?

Bell Work 5

• Explain Black Codes and impeachment • Why might each of these things be bad?• Predict: - What do you think Reconstruction has to do

with MLK, JR and the Civil rights?

Bell Work 6

• Explain carpetbaggers• Who is Andrew Johnson?• What are radicals?• Who were the two presidents during

reconstruction?

Bell Work 7

• Who were Hiram Revels and Blanche Bruce? Why were they important?

• What is Radical Reconstruction?

Bell Work 8

• What are the 13, 14, 15 amendments?

BW 9

• Explain the KKK. What was the goal? How did they achieve their goal (what did they use)

• Did Radical Republicans want to make life better or worse for the African Americans freed in the South?

BW 10 2/3

• Explain Literacy tests• What is a poll tax• How would these things make life hard for

African Americans?

BW 11 2/4/14

• What is Segregation?• Who was Homer Plessy?• Connect: What does Homer Plessy have to do

with segregation?

BW 12

• Why is Plessy v. Ferguson significant?• What are sharecroppers?• Freedmen in the South became

sharecroppers. What happened to these people?

Bell Work 13 2/6

• If republicans wanted Reconstruction, What did Democrats want?

• What does it mean to be self-sufficient? (make your best guess)

• One result (EFFECT) of Reconstruction that we have talked about is . . .

BW 14

• Which political party lost power? (The Republicans or the Democrats?)

• What was wrong with Ulysses S. Grant’s presidency?

• Why was the Election of 1876 important?