U.S. History I-AP
Ms. Horn
Unit Plan: Reconstruction
Themes to Keep in Mind
Presidential v. congressional (Radical) Reconstruction: political power
social, political, and economic situation of African-Americans
order, equality, power, and violence
continuity and change
industrialization and role of economic concerns
federal v. state power
sectionalism v. nationalism
Unit Readings
The Enduring Vision, Chapter 16
1. Introduction – Congress Versus Johnson (499-504)
1. Describe and evaluate Lincoln’s original plans for Reconstruction.
2. How did the South react to Presidential Reconstruction, and what role did Johnson play?
3. Explain how Southern reaction leads to Northern backlash. What position would you take?
Presidential Reconstruction
Radical Republicans
Thaddeus Stevens
Wade-Davis Bill
Andrew Johnson
black codes
O. O. Howard
Civil Rights Act, 1866
Charles Sumner
10 percent plan
Ironclad oath
Thirteenth Amendment
Freedmen’s Bureau
Lyman Trumbull
2. The Fourteenth Amendment – The Fifteenth Amendment (504-510)
1. Describe and evaluate “Radical Reconstruction.”
2. Explain and evaluate the causes of Johnson’s impeachment.
Radical Reconstruction/ Congressional Reconstruction/ Black Reconstruction
Fourteenth Amendment
Reconstruction Act, 1867
Tenure of Office Act
Edwin M. Stanton
Johnson’s Impeachment Trial
Fifteenth Amendment
3. Reconstruction Governments – Republican Rule (510-513) AND The Impact of Emancipation
– Black Institutions (515-518)
1. What steps were taken by the government and by individuals to help the freedmen?
2. In what was, and to what degree were freedmen able to take advantage of their new
opportunities?
carpetbaggers
freedmen
Blanche K. Bruce
Civil Rights Act, 1875
scalawags
Hiram Revels
Southern Homestead Act
4. Counterattacks (513-515), A Place in Time (519a-b), Land, Labor and Sharecropping –
Toward a Crop-Lien Economy (518-521)
1. What steps did white southerners take to prevent blacks from taking advantage of their
freedom? Why? How successful were they?
2. How did sharecropping work to help both freed men and white landowners? To what
degree, and for whom was it successful? In what ways was it flawed? Note the different
desires of freedmen and landowners.
3. How did the combination of the KKK and sharecropping impact the lives of
freedmen?
Knights of the White Camelia
Nathan Bedford Forrest
Ulysses S. Grant
sharecropping/ tenant farming
Ku Klux Klan
Enforcement Acts (KKK Act)
Amnesty Act
Crop-liens
5. New Concerns in the North – Republicans in Retreat (521-526)
1. What events are taking place in the North that distract many from the issue of
Reconstruction?
2. How do the Panic of 1873 and the post Civil War era change the economic structure
of the U.S.?
3. What role do the courts play in Reconstruction? To what degree to the further or
hinder the cause of freedmen?
Election 1868: Grant, Seymour
Jay Gould/ Jim Fisk
Orville Babcock/ whiskey ring
Grantism
William H. Seward/ Seward’s folly
Horace Greeley
Jay Cooke
free-silver
Greenback Party
Slaughterhouse Cases
U.S. v. Cruikshank
sound money v. easy money
Credit Mobilier
William E. Belknap
Boss Tweed/ Tammany Hall
Santo Domingo
Panic of 1873
Public Credit Act
Bland-Allison Act
Texas v. White (1869)
U.S. v. Reese
6. Reconstruction Abandoned – Conclusion (526-531)
1. In the end, to what degree, and for whom, was Reconstruction successful?
2. Why did Reconstruction end as it did?
Redeemers/ Redemption
Home rule
Kansas exodus
Election of 1876
Rutherford B. Hayes
Samuel B. Tilden
Compromise of 1877
Plessy v. Ferguson (1896)