08.06 Reconstruction—Reconstruction Chart Type of Change
Example of One Change Caused by the Civil War and Reconstruction
Example of One Challenge to Change
Political

Economic

Social

Answer the following questions in complete sentences. Be sure to include at least two specific details from the lesson to support your response.
Which type of change—political, social, or economic—had the most impact on Southern life?
Which type of change—political, social, or economic—faced the most challenges? Why were Southerners against this type of change?
For the first hundred years of the United States, only white males were able to vote. Since then, amendments to the Constitution have made it so that any citizen aged 18 or older can vote. Which amendments granted different groups the right to vote? Why were amendments needed to expand voting rights?

Explanation:

Poor southern whites did not experience the improvement to their economic situation as they had hoped. -Southern whites could not accept the idea of blacks' equality. ... The Republicans in Congress were unified in their vision for Reconstruction. During Reconstruction, white Southerners had limited governmental power, so they used violence to control African Americans. During Reconstruction, the Freedmen's Bureau recorded all of the assaults and murders of African Americans in the South. No, they didn't allow them back into the Union in order to more quickly bond the relationships between North and South. Although the South had betrayed and had no right to secede, they also were a defeated band of states. Radical Republicans opposed Lincoln's Reconstruction Plan because it did not ensure equal civil rights for freed slaves. After the assassination of Abraham Lincoln in 1865, the new president, Andrew Johnson, issued his own Reconstruction Plan.