3B Reconstruction Crash Course Video + Questions (HW)

Crash Course: Reconstruction

1. At the beginning of the video, what does John Green say was always ‘ruining everything’?
2.  What president was left to lead after Lincoln died (and it is obvious that Green does not think highly of him)?
3. For most former slaves, what was land ownership?
4. Sherman’s plan promised how much land to former slaves?
5. With the same people in the south owning all the land led to what system of agriculture?
6. What political party was not happy with the state of the south being pretty much like it was before?
7. What did Andrew Johnson do to the Civil Rights Bill of 1866?
8. What did Congress then add to the Constitution because of Johnson being such a racist jerk?
9. What types of laws were those found in the MYSTERY DOCUMENT?
10.  Each of the 5 military districts had to ratify what amendment prior to being allowed back into the Union?
11. Who was able to win the election after the epic fail of the Johnson administration?
12.  Approximately how many African Americans held public office during Radical Reconstruction?
13.  Who was the first African American U. S. Governor?
14.  In what year was the next African American governor?
15. What do Americans hate that made Republican governments disliked because they needed this to pay for all the changes?
16.  In what year was the Ku Klux Klan founded?
17. The election of 1876 was … really messed up, so who was the eventual winner?
18. The Bargain of 1877 basically killed what?
19. What types of laws limited African American rights to education, legal protection and voting?