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Section 2 Economic and Social Reconstruction
Lesson Review
Review of Economic and Social Reconstruction
Directions: Review pages 430-439, close your textbooks, and then answer the following questions T for True or F for
False. With a partner or in a small group, compare and discuss your answers. en, open your textbooks and search for
quotes that support your answers. If your original answer is wrong, simply change it and write the quote.
T F 1. e Freedmen’s Bureau was founded to assist only recently freed slaves.
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T F 2. After the war, President Johnson promised a mule and 40 acres of land to all recently freed slaves.
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T F 3. e Freedmen’s Bureau helped establish a standard freedman wage at $12 per day.
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T F 4. Former slaves and poor whites who had their own mules and tools but no land often became tenant farmers.
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T F 5. e convict lease system was intended to ensure that prisoners were treated fairly.
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T F 6. After the war, many churches divided based on the race of church members.
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T F 7. During Reconstruction, Georgia passed the first state laws for public education.
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Section 2 Economic and Social Reconstruction Reading Summary
Reconstruction Categories
Directions: Although the changes brought about during Reconstruction were wide-ranging, they can generally be
grouped into one of three areas: Economic, Political, and Social. In teams or small groups, each student should list ideas
that fit under each topic. Students should then share ideas in groups and add to existing lists. Completed lists will have
several ideas under each heading.
Additional Ideas: Students can make a poster over all topics or write a short paper on the topics.
Economic:
Political:
Social:
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Section 2 Economic and Social Reconstruction
Reading Summary
The People Who Impacted Reconstruction
Directions: Identify the significant contribution of each individual listed below as it pertains to the era of Reconstruction.
1. President Abraham Lincoln __________________________________________________________________________
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2. President Andrew Johnson __________________________________________________________________________
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3. Governor Charles Jones Jenkins ______________________________________________________________________
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4. Alexander Stephens and Herschel Johnson ______________________________________________________________
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5. General George Meade ______________________________________________________________________________
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6. Henry McNeal Turner ______________________________________________________________________________
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7. General Nathan Bedford Forrest _______________________________________________________________________
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8. General Alfred H. Terry ______________________________________________________________________________
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9. Robert Toombs and Charles Jones Jenkins ______________________________________________________________
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