Second Semester 4

Question 1

What did the North want heading into Reconstruction

Answer 1

1. Make sure hard work wasnt wasted
2. Republicans wanted to control government and society
3. Democrats want no active government
4. Abolitionists wanted to racial justice

Question 2

what were the initial attitudes in the north after the civil war

Answer 2

1. Weary War
2. Army is disbanded
3. Free from taxes

Question 3

what were some of the challenges that soldiers had to face trying to find work

Answer 3

1. Problems with government
2. Situation Financially
3. Competitors

Question 4

who were some of the competitors soldiers had to compete with to get jobs

Answer 4

1. Immigrants
2. Women
3. Competitos

Question 5

why did the u.s. go into recession after the cvil war

Answer 5

problems finacially

Question 6

what were the 3 financial issues heading into reconstruction

Answer 6

1. North merchants want South cotton exports
2. Split between parties
3. North’s wartime/fiscal financial policies expanded dispanity of wealth

Question 7

what were some of the immediate postwar chaos in the South

Answer 7

1. Emancipation
2. Economy
3. Federal Chaos

Question 8

give 3 examples of factors that contributed to a shattered economy in the South. Explain why each would be a problem

Answer 8

1. Destruction of Railroad- cant transport things
2. Cities destroyed- rebuild
3. Fields are destroyed- replant all the crops

Question 9

why did some northerners go south

Answer 9

1. Lured by cotton prices
2. Carpet baggers and Scalawags
3. Fed. Gov. refused to help South economy

Question 10

who were carpetbaggers

Answer 10

Northerners who were well/educated, middle-class professionals

Question 11

who were scalawags

Answer 11

Local whites, in the South who had resettled there and supported or entered Reconstruction governments

Question 12

explain the Freedmen’s bureau and what its purpose. Why did it fail?

Answer 12

1. A temporary plan to last the duration of war and 1 year afterward. Provided food, school, medical care.
2. Underfunded and understaffed
3. It was established to help former black slaves

Question 13

give an example of a university that was founded under the freedmen’s bureau

Answer 13

howard univerisity

Question 14

who founded the special field order 15

Answer 14

William T. Sherman

Question 15

explain the special field order 15

Answer 15

40 acres and a mule. The slaves received it

Question 16

explain the black codes. give an example of a black code

Answer 16

1. were laws passed by Southern states in 1865 and 1866, after the Civil War
2. yearly labor tax

Question 17

exaplain sharecropping

Answer 17

1. rent small plots of land
2. give portion of crop to the landowner
3. owned more than they could pay
4. charged for use of tools