Homework Sheet Unit 8:
Reconstruction and the New South
Date / Class Activities / Homework Due In Class TodayMon
12/15 / · Freedmen; Congressional and Presidential Reconstruction / · Chapter 23 Part 1 (487-497)
· Documents 1-3
Tues
12/16 / · Radical Reconstruction, Southern Backlash, and the Purchase of Alaska
· Receive Unit 8 Review / · Chapter 23 Part 2 (497- 508)
· Documents 4-5
Wed
12/17 / · Grant and The Compromise of 1877
· Politics in the Gilded Age
· Receive Winter Break Assignment / · Chapter 24 Part 1 ONLY (512-522)
· Documents 6-7
Friday
12/19 / · Unit 8 Test
· Receive Unit 9 HW Packet / · Unit 8 Review
Unit 8: Reconstruction, the New South, and Politics in the Gilded Age
Content Covered
Rebuilding the South:
Presidential Reconstruction; Congressional Reconstruction; Reconstruction Act of 1867; Radical Reconstruction; Effects of Reconstruction; End of Reconstruction
Freedmen and Reactions to Emancipation:
Different reactions to freedom; Freedmen’s Bureau; Black Codes; Sharecropping; KKK
Economy:
Effects on Southern Planter Economy; Panic of 1873; Cleveland Battles to Lower the Tariff
Politics and Political Upheaval:
Johnson and Clashes with Congress; Republican Principles and Programs; Johnson and Impeachment; Seward’s Folly (Alaska); Election of Grant; Graft and Corruption; The Liberal Republican Revolt of 1872; Politics of the Gilded Age; Hayes-Tilden Election of 1876; Compromise of 1877; Garfield and the Election of 1880; Garfield’s Death and Arthur; Cleveland and 1884; Harrison 1888;
Social Issues:
Class Conflict and Ethnic Conflicts; Women’s Suffrage (or lack thereof)
Primary Reading
· American Pageant Chapters 23 and 24.1
Secondary Reading
The South After the War:
1. Report on Conditions in the South (1865) – Document 15-2 DAAH V1
African Americans React to Emancipation:
2. The Former Slaves Confront Freedom (1901) – Document 24-A-3 TAS V1 (ps. 519-521)
3. Southern Blacks Ask for Help (1865) – Document 24-B-1 TAS V1 (ps. 522-523)
Anti-Reconstruction Attitudes in the South:
4. Carl Schurz Reports Southern Defiance (1865) – Document 24-A-1 TAS V1 (ps. 515-518)
5. Emancipation Violence in Texas (c.1865) – Document 24-A-4 (ps. 521-522)
The Legacy of Reconstruction:
6. Commentary from E.L. Godkin, Frederick Douglass, and Booker T. Washington – Documents 24-E-1,2,&3 TAS V1 (ps. 538-542)
7. Statistics on Black Ownership (1870 – 1910) – Document 15-8 DAAH V1
Chapter 23: The Ordeal of Reconstruction, 1865-1877
I. Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
1. Oliver O. Howard
2. Andrew Johnson
3. Alexander Stephens
4. Thaddeus Stevens
5. William Seward
II. Describe and state the historical significance of the following:
6. Freedmen’s Bureau
7. 10 percent plan
8. Wade-Davis Bill
9. “conquered provinces”
10. moderate/radical Republican
11. Black Codes
12. sharecropping
13. Civil Rights Act
14. Fourteenth Amendment
15. “swing around the circle”
16. Military Reconstruction Act
17. Fifteenth Amendment
18. Ex parte Milligan
19. “radical” regimes
20. scalawags
21. carpetbaggers
22. Klu Klux Klan
23. Force Acts
24. Tenure of Office Act
25. “Seward’s Folly”
III. Essay Questions:
26. What were the major problems facing the South and the nation after the Civil War? How did Reconstruction address them, or fail to do so?
27. How did free blacks react to the end of slavery? How did both Southern and Northern whites react?
28. How did the white South’s intransigence and President Johnson’s political bungling open the way for the congressional Republican program of military Reconstruction?
29. What was the purpose of congressional Reconstruction, and what were its actual effects in the South?
30. Why did Reconstruction apparently fail so badly? Was the failure primarily one of immediate political circumstances, or was it more deeply rooted in the history of American sectional and race relations?
Chapter 24: Politics in the Gilded Age, 1869-1889
I. Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
1. Jim Fisk
2. Jay Gould
3. Thomas Nast
4. Horace Greeley
5. Jay Cooke
6. Roscoe Conkling
7. James G. Blaine
8. Samuel Tilden
9. Winfield S. Hancock
10. Charles J. Guiteau
II. Describe and state the historical significance of the following:
11. “Ohio Idea”
12. the “bloody shirt”
13. Tweed Ring
14. Crédit Mobilier
15. Whiskey Ring
16. Liberal Republicans
17. Resumption Act
18. “Crime of ‘73”
19. Bland-Allison Act
20. Greenback Labor party
21. GAR
22. Stalwart
23. Half-Breed
24. Pendleton Act
25. Mugwumps
III. Essay Questions:
26. What made politics in the Gilded Age extremely popular--with over 80 percent voter participation--yet so often corrupt and unconcerned with issues?
27. What caused the end of the Reconstruction? What did the North and South each gain from the Compromise of 1877?
28. What were the results of the Compromise of 1877 for race relations? How were the political, economic, and social conditions of southern African-Americans interrelated?
29. What caused the rise of the “money issue” in American politics? What were the backers of “greenback” and silver money trying to achieve?
30. How did civil service come to partially replace the political patronage system, and what were the consequences of the change for politics?