1. According to historian Tom DeBlack, what era was the most tumultuous and controversial inthe state’s history?2. Characterize President Lincoln’s plan for Reconstruction as to its harshness or l

1. According to historian Tom DeBlack, what era was the most tumultuous and controversial in
the state’s history?
2. Characterize President Lincoln’s plan for Reconstruction as to its harshness or leniency.
What did he require of people in the South to regain their American citizenship?
3. Who was elected governor of Arkansas in 1864 after Federal forces occupied Little Rock and
what had been this man’s position regarding secession? What was his constitutional authority to
govern and where was the Arkansas Confederate government located?
4. Who was Arkansas’ most famous northern-born governor during the Reconstruction years?
Who were his brothers?
5. When Andrew Johnson succeeded Abraham Lincoln as president what group in Congress
soon opposed him and his Reconstruction policies?
6. What is the meaning of the term, “Black Codes?” Did Arkansas adopted such laws after the
Civil War? What kept former slaves tied to the land in non-ownership conditions?
7. True or False: Arkansas and the rest of the South accepted the outcome of the Civil War? If
your answer is “True,” explain how they complied with the decision made on the battlefields. If
false, explain the path of their resistance.
What was the most difficult change for ex-Confederates in the years following
the Civil War?
8. Control of what asset was particularly important in the early months after the fighting ended?
9. Who favored confiscation and redistribution of the plantation lands once held by slave
owners?
10. How did freedmen see that redistribution as shown in the phrase “forty acres and a mule”?
11. Define the term, “freedmen.”
12. Identify: Mifflin Gibbs. He was elected to what office in Little Rock? Who wrote an article
on Mifflin Gibbs?