AP U.S. HISTORY
Chapter 17 Reading Guide – Reconstruction: North and South
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1. How did the Civil War “[cement] the allegiance of northeastern businessmen and
western farmers to the party of free labor?”
Morrill Tariff
National Banking Act
Homestead Act
transcontinental RR
Morrill Land Grant Act
2. Why was the plight of many former slaves not markedly improved after the Civil
War?
George Julian
Charles Sumner
Confiscation Act
Freedmen’s Bureau
American Missionary Association
Freedmen’s Aid Society
3. Contrast Lincoln’s plan for reconstructing the Union with that of the
Radical Republicans.
10% Plan
Wade-Davis Bill
Wade-Davis Manifesto
4. Analyze the factors which produced the deadlock between President
Johnson and the Radicals. Would this situation have existed if Lincoln
had lived to serve his second term? Why or why not?
War Democrat
Proclamation of Amnesty
South Carolina Land
Commission
13th Amendment
Carl Schurz
Alexander Stephens
Joint Committee on
Reconstruction
Ben Wade
Thaddeus Stephens
Charles Sumner
forfeited-rights theory
Civil Righs Act (1866)
14th Amendment
5. How did Johnson’s behavior contribute to his own impeachment? Although he
was acquitted, why was Johnson politically ineffectual during the
last half of his presidency?
“swing around the
circle”
Military Reconstruction
Act
Command of the Army Act
Tenure of Office Act
Edwin M. Stanton
2nd Reconstruction Act
3rd Reconstruction Act
Ex Parte McCardle
Texas v. White
Ulysses S. Grant
Lorenzo Thomas
6. Evaluate the stereotypical view of southern Reconstruction as the opportunistic tool of
ignorant freedmen, “carpetbaggers” and “scalawags” to enrich themselves at the expense
of the defeated confederates. How accurate is this generalization?
Union League
Beverly Nash
“black Reconstruction”
Hiram Revels
Blanch K. Bruce
Albion W. Tourgee
James Longstreet
James L. Alcorn
Tweed Ring
7. Why did Radical Reconstruction of the South fail?
Ku Klux Klan
Knights of the
White Camelia
Enforcement Acts
Ku Klux Klan Act
Mississippi Rifle
Club
South Carolina Red
Shirts
8. Why is Grant’s Administration synonymous with “corruption” and “graft”?
“Whiggish” presidency
Jay Gould
Jim Fisk
“Black Friday”
Credit Mobilier
Schuyler Colfax
James Garfield
Whiskey Ring
Liberal Republicans
Carl Schurz
Horace Greeley
Panic of 1873
9. Why was the “money question” such an important political issue after the Civil
War?
“hard money”
“soft money”
greenbacks
Public Credit Act
Refunding Act (1870)
Resumption Act (1875)
National Greenback Party
10. Why did the election of 1876 and the subsequent “Compromise of 1877” signal
the end of Reconstruction? What were the implications for black Americans?
James G. Blaine
“Mulligan Letters”
Rutherford B. Hayes
Samuel J. Tilden
“waving the bloody
shirt”
“grinding the outrage
mills”
“a free ballot and a fair
count”
Justice David Davis
Wormley House bargain
“home rule”