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Students compare Reconstruction plans, laws, agencies, and Johnson's impeachment.
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In December 1863, a plan let a Confederate state form a new government once a small share of its 1860 voters swore loyalty and accepted emancipation. Which plan was it?

A Reconstruction proposal required a majority of a former Confederate state's white male voters to take an Ironclad Oath. Which proposal was it?

A plan gave many former Confederates amnesty but made Confederate leaders seek individual pardons while states accepted the Thirteenth Amendment. Whose plan was this?

In 1867, former Confederate states were placed in five military districts and had to ratify the Fourteenth Amendment. Which plan was this?

Led by Thaddeus Stevens and Charles Sumner, which approach demanded stricter terms for the South and civil and voting rights for freedmen?

A federal agency helped formerly enslaved people establish schools, find family, legalize marriages, receive food, and make labor contracts. Which agency was it?

Which Reconstruction amendment granted citizenship to people born or naturalized in the United States and required equal protection of the laws?

Which Reconstruction amendment abolished slavery in the United States in 1865?

Which Reconstruction amendment barred denying the vote because of race, color, or previous condition of servitude?

Southern states passed laws requiring yearly labor contracts and punishing unemployment as vagrancy after the Civil War. What were these laws called?

Use the comparison chart about Reconstruction. Which conflict does it show?

During Reconstruction, how did President Andrew Johnson's approach to former Confederate leaders differ from the Radical Republicans' approach?

Use the plan chart. What goal did Congress add by requiring the Fourteenth Amendment?

Johnson vetoed Freedmen's Bureau bills in 1866, but Congress passed one over his veto. What did Congress want that Johnson opposed?

The Reconstruction Acts of 1867 put the South under military districts and required new state constitutions. What was Congress's main aim?

Congress passed a law requiring Senate consent before certain officials could be removed, and Johnson tested it by removing Stanton. Which law was central to impeachment?

When the House voted 126 to 47 on February 24, 1868, what did that action do in the impeachment process?

Use the Senate vote table. What result did this vote produce?

Johnson tried to remove which cabinet official, a Radical Republican ally, from the War Department in 1868?

Johnson's attempt to fire Stanton in 1868 was part of a larger struggle between the president and Congress. What was that struggle mainly over?

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The End of Reconstruction and Its Legacy
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