Question 1

What were the three plans for rebuilding the South after the Civil War?

Accepted Answer

10% Plan, Johnson's Plan, and Radical Republican Plans

Question 2

What does reconstruction mean?

Accepted Answer

Reuniting and rebuilding nation after the Civil war

Question 3

What was the basic difference in the various Reconstruction plans presented?

Accepted Answer

They had varying degrees of punishment that would be placed on the South for seceding from the Union and regulating the citizenship of African Americans, along with defining the requirements placed on the southern states that must be met in order for southern states could reenter the United States

Question 4

Who developed the 10% Plan?

Accepted Answer

President Abraham Lincoln

Question 5

Who developed the Johnson Plan?

Accepted Answer

President Andrew Johnson

Question 6

Who were the Radical Republicans?

Accepted Answer

Group of Republicans in Congress who wanted RECONSTRUCTION based on equal rights for African Americans - they wanted to punish the South.

Question 7

How did President Andrew Johnson become president of the United States?

Accepted Answer

He was the vice president of the United States for President Abraham Lincoln. He became President of the United States upon the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln

Question 8

What did Lincoln say that demonstrated his belief that the southern states should not be punished?

Accepted Answer

Lincoln also believed that to reunify the nation, the federal government should not punish the South, but act "with malice towards none, with charity for all...to bind up the nation's wounds...."

Question 9

What was President Lincoln's attitude toward the southern states succession from the United States?

Accepted Answer

believed that since secession was illegal, Confederate governments in the Southern states were illegitimate and the states had never really left the Union.

Question 10

How did President Lincon view the process of restoring the Union after the Civil War?

Accepted Answer

He believed reconstruction was a matter of quickly restoring legitimate Southern states and did not want to punish the South

Question 11

What was the requirement that southern states must meet in order to return to the Union?

Accepted Answer

Southern state governments had to get 10 percent of that state's registered voters in 1860 to pledge loyalty to the United States government.

Question 12

How did the assassination of Lincoln just a few days after Lee's surrender at Appomattox affect the Reconstruction of the South?

Accepted Answer

It enabled Radical Republicans to influence the Reconstruction process in a much more punitive manner towards the former Confederate states.

Question 13

Who was President Lincoln's successor as President of the United States?

Accepted Answer

Vice President Andrew Johnson

Question 14

How did Johnson's Reconstruction plan compare to Lincoln's Reconstruction plan?

Accepted Answer

It adopted much of Lincoln's Reconstruction plan but offered pardons to high-ranking military and political Confederate leaders who personally requested them.

Question 15

Why did the Radical Reconstructionist challenge Johnson's Reconstruction Plan?

Accepted Answer

Congressional leaders were angered by the South's enactment of Black Codes and the election of high-ranking former Southern leaders to Congress.- they wanted to punish the South for leaving the Union

Question 16

What was an example from the Radical Reconstructionist plan that demonstrated their idea of punishment of the southern states?

Accepted Answer

The secessionist states would not be allowed back into the Union immediately but were put under military occupation.

Question 17

What action did congress take against President Andrew Johnson to stop his Reconstruction plan?

Accepted Answer

Congress tried to impeach Johnson but failed to remove him from office.

Question 18

What did the Radical Republicans clash with President Andrew Johnson about?

Accepted Answer

They clashed repeatedly with Andrew Johnson over the issue of civil rights for freed slaves,

Question 19

What did the Radical Republicans want?

Accepted Answer

the immediate right to vote and other civil rights for formerly enslaved people

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