AP U.S. History Ch. 15 Reconstruction

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Describe the issues faced in the South immediately after the Civil War for:

1. Whites / 2. Freedmen

Compare the idea of freedom for whites and freedom

3. Whites / 4. Freedmen

5. Describe the efforts of freed slaves immediately after the war to help themselves and one another: ______

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6. Explain the purpose of the Freedman’s Bureau: ______

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Describe the following plans for Reconstruction of the South. Be specific!

PLAN / DETAILS / RRESULT
7. Lincoln’s 10% Plan
8. Wade-Davis Bill
9. Johnson’s Restoration Plan

10. Briefly describe Andrew Johnson’s point of view regarding racism and post-war Southern aristocrats. How did it change? ______

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11. What were the ‘Black Codes’? How did Congress respond to them? ______

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12. What was the 14th Amendment? Explain the controversy surrounding its passage.______

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13. Explain the necessity and purpose of passage of the 15th Amendment______

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14. Define the Tenure of Office Act and its purpose:______

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15. Define the Command of the Army Act and its purpose:______

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16. What was Ex parte Milligan? Explain its importance.______

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17. Describe the impeachment of Andrew Johnson and its ultimate result______

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18. Who were known as scalawags?______

19. Who were known as carpetbaggers?______

20. In what ways did newly enfranchised African Americans work together to maintain political power in the South after Reconstruction? What role did churches play? ______

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21. Describe the efforts to expand education in the South:______

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22. What did the Civil Rights Act of 1875 hope to accomplish? Was it successful?______

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23. Explain the concept ‘forty acres and a mule’______

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24. Describe the system of sharecropping and the crop-lien system. What was its economic effect on blacks and on whites? ______

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25. Explain the system of credit developed by local country stores in the South:______

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26. Describe the Election of 1868 and its results______

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Identify and describe the following scandals in the Grant Administration:

27. Credit Mobilier
28. Whiskey Ring

29. What led to the Panic of 1873? What were the issues and how was it resolved?______

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30. Briefly describe ‘Seward’s Folly’______

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31. What were the ‘Alabama claims’ and how were they linked to the Treaty of Washington?

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32. -35 Trace the issues that led to the abandonment of Reconstruction

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36. List the various ‘secret societies’ that emerged in the South. Who were they, what was their purpose and their tactics? ______

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37. What were the Enforcement Acts? What effect did they have? ______

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38. What was ‘Social Darwinism?’ What role did it play in the North? ______

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39. Describe the details and impact of the Compromise of 1877 on Reconstruction.______

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40. Who were the ‘Redeemers’ or ‘Bourbons’? Describe their political agenda.______

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41. What was the ‘Readjuster challenge? ______

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42. What was meant by the term the ‘Industrial South? ______

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43. What impact did railroads have upon the South?______

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44. Describe the factory system in the South. Which group frequently provided the labor? _____

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45. Explain the convict-lease system ______

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46. What was the ‘New South creed?’ ______

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47. Identify Booker T. Washington and his message regarding education.______

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Describe the following cases

48. Plessy v. Ferguson. / 49. Cummings v. County Board of Education

50. Describe the various ways whites endeavored to disenfranchise blacks including the concept of ‘Jim Crow laws’______

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51. Describe the phenomenon of lynching the in South. Who was Ida B. Wells and what was she able to accomplish? ______

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To what extent did the reforms survive the Compromise of 1877?

52. Political
53. Social
54. Economic

Analyze the economic consequences of the Civil War on the following in the United States between 1865 and 1880.

55. Agriculture
56.Labor
57. Transportation
58. Industrialization

What were the political achievements and failures of the Grant Administration?

59.Achievements
60. Failures

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