AP U.S. History- Meyers
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Unit 8: Reconstruction
Essential Questions
1. Account for the tension between Congress and the President over reconstruction policy.
2. What was the impact of reconstruction on our national political system?
3. What was the impact of reconstruction on southerners and in particular, the freedmen?
4. Be familiar with the various positions concerning reconstruction of the south and their pros and cons.
5. What is the significance of the Fourteenth Amendment?
6. Evaluate the entire Civil War-Reconstruction Era as a revolutionary time.
Study Terms
(Chapter 15: Eric Foner Give Me Liberty!: An American History)
The Meaning of Freedom (67-80)
the meaning of freedom
Special Field Order 15
impact of freedom on black church, family life, and education
Hampton Institute
free labor - free society
O.O. Howard
the Freedmen's Bureau
"crop lien" system
The Making of Radical Reconstruction (80-90)
Andrew Johnson
Presidential reconstruction
Black Codes
Andersonville
Thaddeus Stevens
Homestead Act
Lyman Trumbull
Freedman's Bureau Bill
Amendment
equal protection clause
"swing around the circle"
1866 bi-election results
Radical (congressional) Reconstruction
Edwin Stanton
impeachment of Johnson
1868 election: Grant vs. Seymour "waving the bloody shirt"
the "constitutional revolution" meaning of citizenship
Frederick Douglass' "Composite Speech"
women's rights
Stanton and Stone
"Sherman land"
Fisk University
Carl Schurz
sharecropping
his pardon
Radical Republicans
Moderate Republicans
Civil Rights Bill/Act Johnson's veto 14th
Reconstruction Act
Tenure of Office Act
Benjamin Wade
fifteenth amendment
federal-state relations
Asian immigrants
NWSA vs AWSA
Radical Reconstruction in the South and The Overthrow of Reconstruction (90-102)
participation of blacks in politics Hiram Revels
Blanche Bruce
impact of black officeholders
Robert Smalls
carpetbaggers
scalawags
southern republican accomplishments
southern opposition
fraud and corruption
Ku Klux Klan
lynching
Enforcement Acts
Liberal Republicans
Horace Greeley
1872 election
The Prostrate State
depression of 1873
bi-elections of 1874
Civil Rights Act of 1875
The Slaughterhouse Cases
U.S. v. Cruikshank
the Redeemers
Hayes/Tilden election of 1876 Electoral Commission
the Bargain or Compromise of 1877
Date
Friday, 12-9
Topic
Go over Unit Exam
Go over Final Exam
Monday, 12-12
Introduce Reconstruction
The President Versus
Congress
Reconstruction in the
South
Tuesday, 12-13
Wednesday, 12-14
Thursday, 12-15
Friday, 12-16
The Age of Grant
Reunion and the New
South
Review
Tuesday, 12-20
History Final Exam, 8:20
Homework
Foner 67-80
Readings: Wage-Labor Contract, “Experiment”
Be prepared to discuss the ways and extent the lives of
white Southerners and Freedmen changed after the war.
Foner 80-90
Reading: 14th Amendment, Rise and Fall of Hope
Assign DBQ
Foner 90-102
Reading: Kentucky Negros Appeal, Militant White
Supremacy
Reading: Arc of Justice
DBQ, Study for Finals
Study!
None! Enjoy Winter Break!