4th Six Weeks Review
1865-1917
Essential Information
1. What political questions needed to be answered by the U.S. government’s
Reconstruction policy? What conditions southern states had to meet in order to return to
the Union, whether the president or Congress was most responsible for creating
Reconstruction policy, and what rights should be granted to former slaves.
2. What were the reconstruction policies of the Lincoln-Johnson administration?
Southern states had not seceded, President responsible for Reconstruction because of his
constitutional power to pardon, needed to be lenient to South in order to regain loyalty,
Johnson will follow Lincoln except let Southern states decide legal status of the
Freedmen.
3. What were the Black Codes? Laws enacted in the South after the Civil War restricting
the rights of African Americans by denying them the right to bear arms, serve on juries,
sue whites, and testify against whites.
4. What were the Reconstruction policies of the Radical Republicans in the U.S.
Congress? Treat the South as conquered territory, punish the South, protect the legal
status of the slaves; Congresses job because of their power to admit new states
5. Why was President Johnson impeached? Violation of the Tenure of Office Act; fails
by one vote getting the 2/3’s vote for conviction.
6. Effect of Grant as President on Reconstruction: Congress had a president who would
carry out Reconstruction Policies of the Radicals
7. What were the results of Radical Republicans Reconstruction? By 1870, all Southern
states had been readmitted to the Union under “carpetbagger” governments that enforced
Radical policies. Southern vigilante groups will form and increase sectional bitterness
develops as they try to “redeem” the South.
8. What happened to African Americans after U.S. troops were pulled out of the
South? Most political gains during Reconstruction were slowly eroded once troops
moved out of the South, by 1890, Southern states form a more rigid system of
segregation and denying AA the right to vote
Significant Events
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Wade-Davis Bill 1864
Freedman’s Bureau established 1865
Radical Reconstruction begins, 1867
Tenure of Office Act 1867
Andrew Johnson’s impeachment trial, 1868
Election of 1876
7. Compromise of 1877
8. Plessy v. Ferguson 1896
9. Homestead Act, 1862
10. Knights of Labor
11. Transcontinental Railroad,1869
12. Credit Mobilier scandal, 1872
13. Little Big Horn, 1876
14. Great Railroad Strike, 1877
15. Munn v. Illinois 1877
16. Chinese exclusion Act, 1882
17. Pendleton Act, 1883
18. Haymarket Square Riot, 1886
19. Wabash v. Illinois 1887
20. American Federation of labor, 1886
21. Dawes Act, 1887
22. Interstate Commerce Act , 1887
23. Populist Party created, 1889
24. Massacre at Wounded Knee, 1890
25. Sherman Anti-Trust Act, 1890
26. Ellis Island opens 1892
27. Homestead strike, 1892
28. Panic of 1893
29. Hawaii, 1893 & 1898
30. Pullman Strike, 1894
31. William Jennings Bryan delivers his “Cross of Gold’ speech, 1896
32. USS Maine explodes, 1898
33. Spanish American War, 1898
34. Filipino War begins, 1899
35. Open Door Policy 1899
36. Creation of U.S. Steel, 1901
37. McKinley assassination, 1901
38. Panama Canal Treaty 1903
39. Roosevelt mediates coal strike, 1903
40. Wright Brothers, 1903
41. Roosevelt Corollary
42. Roosevelt breaks up Northern Securities, 1904
43. International workers of the World, 1905
44. Meat Inspection Act 1906
45. Pure Food and Drug act, 1906
46. Payne Aldrich Tariff, 1909
47. Ballinger - Pinchot controversy, 1909
48. Triangle Shirtwaist Fire 1911
49. Election of 1912
50. Underwood Tariff
51. Federal Reserve System Created, 1913
52. Federal Trade Commission, 1914
53. Clayton Anti-trust Act, 1914
Important People and other Info
1. Andrew Johnson
2. Edwin Stanton
3. Charles Sumner
4. Thaddeus Stevens
5. Blanche K. Bruce and Hiram Revels
6. Samuel Tilden
7. Rutherford B. Hayes
8. Booker T. Washington
9. W.E.B. DuBois
10. Ida B. Wells
11. 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments
12. Black codes
13. Radical Republicans
14. Carpetbaggers
15. Scalawags
16. Redemption
17. Sharecropping
18. Ku Klux Klan
19. Bourbons
20. Tuskegee Institute
21. Jim Crow Laws
22. Grover Cleveland
23. William McKinley
24. John D. Rockefeller
25. Andrew Carnegie
26. J. P. Morgan
27. Cornelius Vanderbilt
28. William Randolph Hearst
29. Thomas Edison
30. Alexander Graham Bell
31. Edwin Drake
32. Samuel Gompers
33. “Mother” Jones
34. James Weaver
35. Jacob Coxey
36. Chief Joseph
37. Sitting Bull
38. Laissez faire
39. Social Darwinism
40. Monopoly (trust)
41. Tweed Ring
42. Collective bargain
43. Grange
44. Greenbacks
45. Free silver
46. Theodore Roosevelt
47. William H. Taft
48. Woodrow Wilson
49. Eugene V. Debs
50. Robert LaFollette
51. Susan B. Anthony
52. Jane Addams
53. Alice Paul
54. Social Gospel
55. Charles Sheldon, In His Steps
56. Muckraker
57. Jacob Riis How the Other Half Lives
58. Lincoln Steffens, Shame of the Cities
59. Ida Tarbell, History of Standard Oil
60. Upton Sinclair, The Jungle
61. Square Deal
62. Conservation
63. “Bull Moose Party”
64. New Nationalism
65. New Freedom
66. 16th amendment
67. 17th amendment
68. 18th amendment
69. 19th amendment
70. Joseph Pulitzer
71. Emilio Aguinaldo
72. Queen Lili’Uokalani
73. Walter Reed and William C. Gorgas
74. Alfred T. Mahan
75. Josiah strong
76. Imperialism
77. ‘white man’s burden”
78. Jingoism
79. Yellow journalism
80. Jingoism
81. DeLome Letter
82. Rough Riders
83. Teller Amendment
84. Platt amendment
85. Protectorate
86. Gunboat diplomacy
87. Dollar diplomacy