AP Chapter 15 Study Guide

Reconstruction and the New South

KEY TERMS:

MUST KNOW: / Black Codes / White League & Red Shirts
Reconstruction / Freedmen’s Bureau Bill / Enforcement Acts
13th Amendment / Civil Rights Act of 1866 / Compromise of 1877
14th Amendment / Ex parte Milligan / Rutherford B. Hayes
“equal protection” / Tenure of Office Act / “Redeemers”
15th Amendment / Johnson Impeachment / “Bourbon Rule”
Radical Republicans / “scalawags” & “carpetbaggers” / “Readjuster Movement”
Sharecropping system / Hiram Revels / “New South”
segregation / Blanche Bruce / Henry Grady
Black “academies” / Minstrel Shows
ADDITIONAL TERMS: / Segregated schools / “Convict-Lease” System
Myth of the “Lost Cause / Civil Rights Act of 1875 / Booker T. Washington
The Freedmen’s Bureau / Tenant-farming / Tuskegee Institute
Thaddeus Stevens / Crop-Lien System / The Atlanta Compromise
Charles Sumner / U.S. Grant / Jim Crow
Lincoln’s 10% Plan / Cedit Mobilier Scandal / Plessy v. Ferguson
Wade-Davis Bill / Panic of 1873 / Cumming v. Board of Education
John Wilkes Booth / “Seward’s Folly” / Literacy tests
Andrew Johnson / Ku Klux Klan / “grandfather clause”
“Restoration” / Nathan Bedford Forrest / Lynchings
Radical Reconstruction / Knights of the White Camelia

ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS:

  • What were the key provisions of the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments and what impact did they have of American society?
  • How was the women’s rights movement both emboldened and divided over the 14th and 15th Amendments?
  • What were the accomplishments and impact of Republican policies (both moderate and Radical Republicans) during the Reconstruction period?
  • Why did the Radical Republicans ultimately fail to sustain change and support for former slaves?
  • How did southern society and economy represent continuity and to what extent did it change before and after the Civil War?
  • What was the system of sharecropping and impact did it ultimately have on the South?
  • How did segregation, violence, Supreme Court decisions, and local political decisions strip away African American rights?
  • How did the accomplishments of the Reconstruction period lay the foundation for civil rights gains in the 20th Century?
  • What was the “New South” and to what extent did the South “modernize” after the Civil War?
  • What impact did the Plessy v. Ferguson ruling have the rights of African Americans?
  • What were the causes and effects of the rise of segregation in the South?
  • How did African-American leaders attempt to fight for equality in the era?