Homework Sheet
Saturday, December 27
Read pages 421-427 (402-407) in your textbook and answer the following points for mastery.
-Explain the legal arguments regarding the readmission of southern states.
-Compare and contrast the provisions of presidential and congressional Reconstruction plans.
-Why was there a conflict between Radical Republicans and President Johnson?
-What were the provisions and impact of the Fourteenth Amendment?
-Explain the various Reconstruction Acts passed by Congress.
-In what ways and to what extent did constitutional and social developments between 1860 and 1877 amount to a revolution?
-Evaluate the impact of the Civil War on political and economic developments in the following regions: the South, the North, and the West
Sunday, December 28
Read pages 427-433(407-417) in your textbook and answer the following points for mastery.
-Detail the events leading to the impeachment of Johnson.
-Explain the Fifteenth Amendment and the circumstances leading to its passage.
-What were the accomplishments and failures of “Black Reconstruction.”
-Describe the problems and accomplishments of the Radical Reconstruction governments in the postwar South.
Monday, December 29
Read pages 433-438 (418-424) in your textbook and answer the following points for mastery.
-How did the end of slavery affect the southern economy?
-Detail the evolution of sharecropping and the crop lien system and their impact on southern agriculture and the southern economy.
-Explain the emergence of the Ku Klux Klan.
Tuesday, December 30
Read pages 438-442 (424-429) in your textbook and answer the following points for mastery.
-How did the Grant presidency impact Reconstruction?
-Why was the North unwilling to prevent the disenfranchisement of blacks in the South?
-Explain why Radical Reconstruction governments faltered and were replaced by conservative Democratic Party governments in the South by 1877.
-What circumstances led to the Compromise of 1877?
-Short of mass executions after the war, was there any way to guarantee the rights of blacks and to prevent the return of traditional southern elites to power?
-Discuss the political, economic, and social reforms introduced in the South between 1864 and 1877. To what extent did these reforms survive the Compromise of 1877?
-How do you account for the failure of Reconstruction (1865-1877) to bring social and economic equality of opportunity to the former slaves?
Monday, January 5
-Take Home Test is due
-Key Terms for chapter 16
Name: ______Topic: The War to Save the Union
Due Date:Monday, January 5, 2015 Time Period: 1848-1877
Directions: Read pages 421-442 (370-398). Inform the reader of several of the most important facts about each item on a separate piece of paper and hand-written. If it is an event, describe what happened and how it came out; if it is a person, detail the most important facts that this person should be remembered for. This should take 3 sentences. After finishing the sentence note both the source and note page number(s).
1)Lincoln’s Plan for Reconstruction (10% Plan)
2)Congress’ Plan for Reconstruction
3)Andrew Johnson’s Plan for Reconstruction
4)Wade-Davis Bill
5)13th Amendment
6)Black Codes of 1865
7)Freedman’s Bureau
8)Civil Rights Act of 1866
9)14th Amendment
10)“Swing Around the Circle”
11)Reconstruction Acts of 1867
12)Impeachment of Andrew Johnson
13)15th Amendment
14)Scalawags
15)Carpetbaggers
16)Sharecropping
17)Crop-Lien System
18)KKK
19)Panic of 1873
20)Grant’s Scandals (be sure to describe 3 of his scandals and explain their impact)
21)Election of 1876
22)Compromise of 1877
23)Impact of Reconstruction
- Political
i.North
ii.South
- Economic
- North
- South
- Social
- Southern Society
- Southern Politics and Economy