Homework 17 - Chapter 12: Reconstruction and It’s Effects
Section 1: The Politics of Reconstruction
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What experience did Johnson have before becoming President?
What is strange about a southerner succeeding Lincoln?
What 2 problems did Johnson face?
Why was Reconstruction so complicated and frustrating for all Americans?
What was Lincoln’s 10 Percent Plan?
Who were Thaddeus Stevens and the Radical Republicans?
Describe the Radical Republican Plan for Reconstruction?
What is a pocket veto?
Why was it the perfect way for Lincoln to kill the Wade Davis Bill?
Why did Johnson pardon 13,000 ex Confederates?
How could Johnson support abolition but oppose voting rights for former slaves?
What was the Freedman’s Bureau?
Was it effective in helping the needs of freed slaves?
Why is the Civil Rights Act of 1866 one of the most important laws ever?
What were black codes and why were state’s in the south passing such laws?
Why did Johnson veto bills for civil rights and the Freedman’s Bureau?
What was the 14th Amendment?
Why is this perhaps the most important and often used amendment in the US Constitution?
What happened in the 1866 Congressional Elections?
How did the REconsturction Act of 1867 make things very hard on southerners?
Why was Johnson impeached in 1867?
How close did Johnson come to being thrown out of office?
Who became the next president?
How did the new African American vote shape the election?
What would the 15th Amendment protect?
Section 2: Restructuring Society
Read pages 383 to 392.
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What did Robert Fitzgerald do?
Why was it so important for men such as Fitzgerald to help out?
By what year had most Confederate states been readmitted to the Union?
How much damage had the south suffered during the war?
How many adult males died in the war?
How did Republican state governments help southerners?
Why was it not enough?
Who were carpetbaggers and scalawags?
Why did southerners despise these people?
How did the 15th Amendment change the politics of the south?
Why did the Democratic Party reemerge strongly in the south?
What new freedoms were treasured by former slaves?
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How many former slaves were illiterate?
What was done to improve education in the south?
Who were the chief reformers to help freed slaves and poor whites?
Who was Hiram Revels and why is he extraordianary?
The south tried integration but it wasn’t working, why not?
Look at NOW and THEN on page 390. What is reparations for slavery? Do you think that the US Government
should pay the desendants of slaves for damages? Why or why not?
What did the term 40 acres and a mule mean?
Why did this promise remain broken?
What brought about a restoration of the plantations?
What prevented blacks and whites from owning their own lands and farms?
What was sharecropping?
In what way was this just a step above slavery?
What happened to cotton production and prices? Why was cotton no longer king?
Section 3: The Collapse of Reconstruction
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Why were 27 members of the Georgia state legislature expelled?
Why did the US Government just sit by and watch this happen and do nothing about it?
What was the KKK?
What was their main goal? Did they achieve it?
What methods did the Klan use to prevent blacks for moving up in society?
How did Congress respond to KKK violence?
Why was it not enough?
Why did President Grant find himself surround by fraud bribery and scandals?
Why did Grant win reelection in 1872?
What continued to be President Grant’s main problem and failure?
How did the Panic of 1873 start?
What impact did it have on the nation?
Why was the US dollar in dispute? Why did Congress fight over paper dollars or gold currency so much?
What did the Slaughter House Cases of 1873 decide? How did this weaken the 14th and 15th amendments?
Why did northerners give up on rebuilding the south and helping former slaves?
Who won the election of 1876?
What is the Compromise of 1877?
Why is this election called the end of Reconstruction?
What is home rule?
What is the legacy of Reconstruction?