AP United States History
FACT PACK
UNIT 6
A New Beginning: Reconstructing a Nation & Post-War America
PEOPLE
Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Thaddeus Stevens, Charles Sumner,
Andrew Johnson, Edwin Stanton, Ulysses S. Grant, Rutherford B. Hayes,
Samuel Tilden, George Armstrong Custer, Jay Gould, W.E.B Du Bois,
Booker T. Washington, Frederick Remington
IMPORTANT EVENTS AND ACTIONS
Presidential Reconstruction, Radical Reconstruction, “40 Acres and a Mule,”
Panic of 1873, Compromise of 1877, Black Hills Gold Rush, Sand Creek Massacre,
Custer’s Last Stand (Battle of Little Big Horn), Sioux Ghost Dance Movement,
Wounded Knee, Transcontinental Railroad, The Great Chicago Fire,
Shootout at OK Corral
SCANDALS
Credit Mobilier, Whiskey Ring, Tweed Ring
AMENDMENTS
13th, 14th, 15th
ACTS
Johnson’s General Amnesty, Freedmen’s Bureau, Civil Rights Act of 1866,
Military Reconstruction Act of 1867, Southern Homestead Act,
Force and KKK Acts, General Amnesty Act of 1872, Coinage Act of 1873, Civil
Rights Act of 1875, Dawes Severalty Act, Granger Laws, Interstate Commerce Act
COURT DECISIONS
Plessy v Ferguson, Ex parte Milligan, Munn v Illinois, Wabash v Illinois
ANYTHING GOES
Jim Crow Laws, Sharecropping, Ku Klux Klan, Carpetbagger, Scalawag, Debt
Slavery, work contracts, “Waving the Bloody Shirt,” Exodusters, Mississippi Plan,
Redemption, Grantism, Seward’s Folly, National Greenback Party, National
Grange, Southern and National Farm Alliance, Ocala Platform, Populist Party,
National Labor Union, Union Pacific/Central Pacific RRs, Abilene, Dodge City,
Tuskegee Institute