Summary Terms for Chapter 23

• Presidential Reconstruction
• 13th Amendment
• Freedman's Bureau
• Congressional Reconstruction
• Military Reconstruction Act
• 15th Amendment
• Amnesty Act of 1872
• Compromise of 1877
• Jim Crow Laws
• Plessy V. Ferguson

Warm Up for 4-24-13

1. What was the Supreme Court's ruling in Plessy V. Ferguson? (pg 333)

2. Where did  the freedmen that left the South migrate to? (334)

Warm Up for 4-23-13

1. What was the main goal of the Ku Klux Klan? (pg 330)

2. How did southern Democrats keep blacks away from the polls? (pg 332)

3. How did Democrats draw a color line in the South after they had returned to power? (pg 333)

Warm Up for 4-22-13

1. Under the Military Reconstruction Act, what happened to Johnson's governments in the South? (pg 326)

2. After the Army had returned to the South in 1867, to whom was voting limited to? (pg 328)

3. What did the 15th Amendment guarantee? (pg 328)

Warm Up for 4-19-13

1. Describe the term "reconstruction."

2. What were the two main aims of Johnson's reconstruction plan?

3. Describe the 14th Amendment.

Chapter 23 Definitions

1. Freedmen
2. Civil rights
3. Carpetbaggers
4. Scalawags
5. Jim Crow laws

Warm Up for 4-10-13

1. In 1864, when Grant invaded Virginia, how could he afford to loser battles and still gain an advantage? (pg 318)

2. What is "total war" and what does it involve? (pg 318)

3. By 1864, what was the South's only hope for victory?  How were these hopes dashed? (pg 318)

Warm Up for 4-9-13

1. What distinguished the Monitor and the Merrimac from traditional war ships? (pg 315)

2. By 1863, what were some of the problems on the Confederate home front? (pg 316)

3. Why did soldiers of the Massachusetts 54th regiment refuse payment? (pg 317)

Warm Up for 4-8-13

1. Why did Lincoln issue the Emancipation Proclamation? (pg 312)

2. Why did Lee decide to attack the North again in 1863? (pg 312)

3. Why was the Battle of Vicksburg significant? (pg 316)

Chapter 22 Notes

Chapter 22 Notes (22.1-22.4)