Homework
Due Tomorrow
Use the following link to read through the FOURTH section entitled Reconstruction and its effects.
Answer the
following questions and be prepared for a class discussion tomorrow.
There will be a completion and class participation grade given.
1. After the Civil War the period known as Reconstruction ensued.
What was the
overall idea of Reconstruction?
2. Discuss the importance of the 14th and 15th Amendments.
3. Discuss the significance of the following: Freedman's
Bureau, Radical
Republicans, Andrew
Johnson, Sharecropping,
Scalawag, Carpetbagger,
Hiram
Revels, Ku Klux
Klan.
4. Discuss the PROBLEMS and the attempted SOLUTIONS facing the South
during Reconstruction.
5. Discuss a few positive effects and a few negative effects of
Reconstruction.
6. How did the Radical Republicans hope to reconstruct the South?
If you have problems opening the Power Point notes...NO WORRIES....you can use your book to address all the questions.