HIUS 222-001 LIBERTY
UNIVERSITY
Reconstruction ✔ Ans - it was an attempt by Republicans
in Congress to remake the postwar South in the North's image
socially, politically, and economically
Reconstruction ✔ Ans - it hinged upon the restoration of
the Southern states to the Union, and the status of the freedmen
Context for Reconstruction ✔ Ans - 1. Between 1861 and
1865, the US was locked in a bitter and bloody civil war
2. The civil war began after Southern states withdrew from the
Union following the election of Republican Abraham Lincoln to
the presidency in 1860.
3. The Civil War transformed America: Emancipation
Proclamation and the 13th Amendment
4. The Southern Confederacy surrendered, secession was
defeated, and the North emerged
Why did the Southern States want to form their own country?
✔ Ans - they wanted to preserve the institution of slavery and
felt that Lincoln's anti-slavery position of resisting the
institution's spread westward into new states
Rationale for Reconstruction ✔ Ans - 1. The Civil War
came with a high cost- over 630,000 killed
2. Congressional concern over president Johnson's "restoration
plan"
Gettysburg Address ✔ Ans - speech that argued that the
United States was an idea grounded in the "proposition that all
men are created equal"
What was the war about? ✔ Ans - "rebirth of freedom"
President Abraham Lincoln ✔ Ans - first republican
elected to the presidency
