Semester A Exam Us History

US History First Semester Midterm Final Exam Review Guide

My ﬁnal exam is on Friday, January fourteen.

Directions: Use previous study guides, notes, and online-book. Complete a unit/section at a fourth dimension and exist

sure to study the concepts for your ﬁnal! Highlight things that you do not remember very well and focus

on those.

Unit i: Reconstruction

one. What were the diﬀerences between the Due north and South that led to the Civil War?

The n had a greater population than the southward. The n too was counterbalanced between

manufacture and agriculture westwardhile the southward was primarily focused on agriculture. The s had

slaves and the n didn't. The n was more wealthy. The north likewise had most of the nation's

railroad system. The northern agriculture focused on growing foods to feed large groups while

the south focused on growing cotton. Most of the factories were also in the north.

2. What is Reconstruction?

The time menstruation afterwards the Civil War (1865-1877) where the South rebuilt physically and

politically

3. Lincoln's Plan for Reconstruction

Lincoln wanted to go like shooting fish in a barrel towards the Southern states to try and quickly heal the The states. Lincoln'south

plan was known as the ten% programme. His plan was called the 10% plan because Lincoln's plan required

10% of each southern state's due westhite citizens. These white citizens westere needed to swear a loyalty

oath to the US in guild to proceeds back statehood. Sadly due to his assassination, his plan was never

used.

four. Johnson's Plan for Reconstruction

In President Johnson'due south plan, he put that he wanted no political rights for quondam rich white

southern farmers. He also wanted Southern states to simply form new governments made up of

non-slaveholding whites. His plan said secession was illegal therefore southern states didn't need

to exist readmitted. Fiveoters could then elect delegates to typhoon new state constitutions and establish

state governments. Gave the whites in the South a complimentary hand in regulating the transition

from slavery to freedom and oﬀered no office to blacks in the politics of the South.

5. Radical Republicans (Congress) Plan for Reconstruction

This was the congressional plan for postwar recovery that imposed harsh standards on the

Southern states. This plan was also known as the Radical Republicans Programme. This plan was led by

Charles Sumner and Thaddeus Stevens. During this era, Congress passed three constitutional

amendments that protected the rights of freedmen. They punished the former Confederate

leaders by depriving them of the right to hold oﬃce.

6. What are black codes?

Black codes were restrictive laws designed to limit the freedom of African Americans and ensure

their availability as a cheap labor force afterwards slavery was abolished during the Civil Westwardar. Though

the Union victory had given some 4 1000000 enslaved people their freedom, the question of freed

blacks' status in the postwar Due south was still very much unresolved. Under blackness codes, many

states required Blackness people to sign yearly labor contracts; if they refused, they chanceed being

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