8th History - Chapter 16 Objectives

Section 1

Define Reconstruction.
List the three phases of Reconstruction.

Section 2

Describe Lincoln’s Ten Percent Plan.
Name the bill that Congress tried to pass in reaction to Lincoln’s plan.
Compare Johnson’s plan for Reconstruction with the plans of Lincoln and the Congress.
Explain the position of the Radical Republicans.

Section 3

List and describe the important amendments and legislation passed during Radical Reconstruction.
Identify and describe the circumstances of Johnson’s impeachment.
Name two of Johnson’s achievements in foreign affairs.
Name the president who followed Andrew Johnson and the problems of that man’s administration.

Section 4

Identify Bourbon Reconstruction.
Describe the circumstances of the disputed election of 1876.

Section 5

Describe the sharecropping system that developed in the South.
Explain how industry began to grow in the South.
Explain why the South became the Solid South.
Identify the Ku Klux Klan and explain how Congress reacted to it.