Newton South High School
US History 431
Mr. Stein
Reconstruction Test Study Guide
This study guide is to help you prepare for the exam but does not include everything
you will be tested on. You should consult your notes from class discussion and
primary sources assigned for homework too.
Chapter 12.1 (p. 402 – 409)
People and Terms
Reconstruction
Wade-Davis Bill
Andrew Johnson
Civil Rights Act of 1866
Edmund G. Ross
Radical Republicans
Freedman’s Bureau
black code
14th Amendment
15th Amendment
Questions to Consider
1. What were the major issues that the nation faced during Reconstruction?
2. How did Abraham Lincoln and Congress differ on the idea of Reconstruction?
3. How did Andrew Johnson’s Reconstruction plan differ from Lincoln? How did this
lead to clashes with the Radical Republicans and Congress?
4. How did the Congress take over control or Reconstruction?
5. What led to Andrew Johnson’s impeachment? Was it Constitutional?
6. What was the major legislation of the Reconstruction era?
Note: You should also refer to your chart and writing on Edmund G. Ross
Chapter 12.2 (p. 410 - 418)
Terms and People
scalawag
carpetbagger
segregation
integration
share-tenancy
tenant farming
Ku Klux Klan
Enforcement Acts
Questions to Consider (12.2)
1. How did African-Americans get involved in Republican governments?
2. How were the members of the Republican party received in the South? What sort
of people made up the party?
3. What were some of the successes and failures of the Radical Reconstruction?
4. How did the freed slaves build new communities?
5. How did sharecropping and other forms of economic change work in the South?
6. What were some of the groups that violently resisted change in the South and how
did the federal government respond to this?
Chapter 12.3 (p. 419 – 427)
Terms and People
Redeemer
Rutherford B. Hayes
Samuel Tilden
Compromise of 1877
Questions to Consider
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What other matters was the nation concerned about that distracted it from Reconstruction?
What were some factors that led to the end of Reconstruction?
What effect did Reconstruction have on African-Americans and women?
What effect did Reconstruction have on state politics, national politics and federal power?
Chapter 16.1 (p. 520 – 528)
Terms and People
Jim Crow Laws
Poll tax
literacy tests
grandfather clause
Booker T. Washington
W.E.B. Du Bois
Ida B. Wells
Las Gorras Blancas
Questions to Consider
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How were African-Americans denied voting rights in the South?
What laws were created to force segregation in the South?
Who were some of the prominent voices challenging the issues facing African-Americans?
What issues were Chinese immigrants facing in the country?
What struggles did Mexican-Americans face in the West?
What were some of the gains and setbacks faced by women during this time period?