AP History
Mr. Dunn
Chapter 15 study guide
Important Terms People and Ideas
The Freedman’s Bureau
Radical Republicans
10% Plan
Andrew Johnson
Wade-Davis Bill
John Wilkes Booth
Black Codes
13th amendment
14th amendment
15th amendment
Johnson’s Plan
Congressional Plan
Tenure of Office Act
Johnson Impeachment
Scalawags
Carpetbaggers
Sharecropping
Crop-Lien System
Ulysses S. Grant
Credit Mobilier
Seward’s Folly
Ku Klux Klan
Social Darwinism
Compromise of 1877
The New South
Redeemers
Booker T. Washington
Atlanta Compromise
Jim Crow
Plessy v. Ferguson
lynchings
1. Describe the impact of the Civil War on the Southern states.
2. Describe the actions of African Americans towards gaining independence from White
control.
3. What actions did the Freedman’s Bureau take to attempt to help the African
Americans?
4. What stopped the Wade Davis Bill from going into effect?
5. Describe President Johnson’s view of the freedmen.
6. Describe the Radical Republican view towards the newly established Johnson governments.
7. Describe the actions taken by Congress and the President in response to the Black Codes.
8. How did the Radical Republicans plan on getting the 14th amendment passed by the
Southern states?
9. Describe the provisions of the Tenure of Office Act and the motivation behind passing it.
10. Describe the reasons for the impeachment on Andrew Johnson.
11. What is the difference between a scalawag and a carpetbagger?
12. Discuss the success rate of African American politicians.
13. Evaluate the success or failure of integrated education in the South.
14. How did land tenantry benefit both Whites and Blacks?
15. Describe the cause of the debt cycle associated with the crop-lien system.
16. On a separate piece of paper outline the section entitled The Grant Administration.
Staple the paper to this study guide.
17. Describe the goals of the KKK
18. Describe the idea known as social Darwinism.
19. Describe the stipulations found in the Compromise of 1877.
20. What was the goal of the Redeemers?
21. What time period is known as the New South?
22. Explain the recommendation of Henry Grady and the impact this had on the South.
23. Describe the state of agriculture in the New South.
24. What did booker T. Washington urge other African Americans to do?
25. Describe the court decisions of Plessy v. Ferguson and Cumming v. Country Board
of Education.
26. Explain the use of the poll tax and literacy test in attempting to evade the 15th
amendment.
27. What are Jim Crowe Laws?
28. Describe the illegal efforts made to keep Blacks under the control of Whites in the
New South.