Reconstruction (postwar)

Question 1

Radical Republican

Answer 1

member of congress that intended to punish the South and protect ex-slaves

Question 2

Thaddeus Stevens

Answer 2

a powerful Radical Republican and responsible for the Reconstruction amendments

Question 3

I. Postwar Reconstruction

Answer 3

• Nearly 4 million slaves were freed but didn’t have jobs or an education
• the South’s economy collasped with most battles taking place there (except Antietam and Gettysburg)

Question 4

II. A Congressional Uproar

Answer 4

Northerners believed that Lincoln’s plan for reconstruction (1863) was too lenient and feared that the South would try to prevent ex-slaves from getting civil rights

Question 5

Andrew Johnson

Answer 5

became president after Lincoln’s assassination

Question 6

John Wilkes Booth

Answer 6

the assassin who killed Abraham Lincoln

Question 7

III. Lincoln’s Assassination

Answer 7

• April 14, 1865
• Booth (who was a confederate) being a part of a famous acting family, was able to get close to the president without suspicions and killed Lincoln as part of a larger conspiracy to take out other high-ranking officials
• Booth was killed in his attempt to escape
• Nation mourned Lincoln’s death and southern democrat Andrew Johnson took over
  (his home state seceded but he stayed loyal to the country)