AP US History-Chapter 16 assignment
Reconstruction
Ms Thomas
1. List the problems faced by the nation after the Civil War
2. Describe the following Reconstruction Plans
a. Radical Republican: Wade-Davis Bill
b. Presidential Reconstruction
i. Lincoln’s 10 Percent Plan
ii. Johnson’s Plan
c. Congressional Reconstruction: 18-67-1870/77
d. Home Rule-1877: once federal troops pulled out
e. Complete the chart for Presidential and Congressional Reconstruction Plans
3. Impeachment of President Johnson
a. List specific reasons why he was impeached
b. Why did the Senate fail to get the 2/3’s vote for conviction?
4. Civil War Amendments
a. Thirteenth
b. Fourteenth-and why some abolitionists opposed it
c. Fifteenth-and why some women opposed it
5. Identify
a. Carpetbagger
b. Scalawag
c. Goals of the Ku Klux Klan
d. Force Acts-1870-71
6. What was the Freedman’s Bureau, and why did Johnson veto it?
What black institutions organized to assist the freedmen
7. Identify
a. Sharecropping
b. Crop Lien
8. Identify
a. “Mississippi Plan”
b. The “Redeemers’
c. Exodusters
9. Explain the Compromise of 1877
10. Why did the Republicans abandon the South in the 1870’s
11. The Supreme Court supported the “abandonment” of Reconstruction. Explain how it did so in the following
cases:
a. Ex Parte Milligan,1866
b. Slaughterhouse Case, 1873
c. US v Reese and US v Cruikshank
d. What did the Supreme Court do re: the Civil Rights Act of 1875 and the Ku Klux Klan Act, 1871
Presidential and Congressional Reconstruction Plans
State the components of the Presidential and Congressional Reconstruction Plans that relate to the categories provided.
Presidential Plan
Loyalty Oaths
Pardon of
Confederate
Officials
Abolition of
Slavery
Confederate
Debt
Secession
Amendments
for:
Citizenship
Due Process
Suffrage
State
Constitutions
40 Acres and
a Mule
Congressional Plan