Chapter 16 Study Guide
Reconstruction: An Unfinished Revolution, 1865-1877
ID’S
Robert Smalls
Special Field Order #15
Wade-Davis Bill
Freedmen’s Bureau
Freedmen’s Bureau Schools
Cardozo, Bruce, and Revels
Johnson’s Reconstruction Plan
Radical Republicanism
The 14th Amendment
The Congressional Elections of 1866
Thaddeus Stevens
Johnson’s Impeachment Trial
Ulysses S. Grant (pres.1869-76)
The Southern Republican Party
Republican Governments in the FCS***
Public Schools in the FCS***
The Charge of “Negro Rule”
Scalawag
Ku Klux Klan
Enforcement Acts and anti-KKK Law
Amnesty Act of 1872
Panic of 1873
Ex Parte Milligan
Bradwell v. Illinois
United States v. Reese
The Exodusters
*** FCS=Former Confederate States
Wade Hampton
Lincoln’s “10 percent” Plan
13th Amendment
Reunification of Afro-Am. Families
Founding of Afro-American Colleges
Sharecropping System
Black Codes
Civil Rights Bill of 1866
Johnson’s Swing Around the Circle
1st Reconstruction Act of 1867
Tenure of Office Act
The Presidential Election of 1868
15th Amendment
Constitutional Conventions in the FCS***
Industrialization in the FCS***
Southern Conservatives
Carpetbagger
Republican Tax Policies in the FCS
Klan Violence in Alamance & Caswell, NC
Liberal Republican Revolt
Civil Rights Act of 1875
Greenbacks vs. Sound Money
The Slaughter-House Cases
United States v. Cruikshank
Presidential Election of 1876-disputed
"Compromise of 1877"
QUESTIONS
1. Discuss the response of former slaves to freedom and to the 13th and 14th Amendments.
2. Discuss the political, social, and economic implications of Reconstruction.
3. After the Civil War the nation committed itself to equality for the freedmen through
law and constitutional amendments. Discuss the forces and events that caused the nation
to abandon this commitment during the years after the Civil War.
4. Discuss the Northern and Southern responses to Reconstruction.
5. Discuss the roles played by the legislative, executive, and judicial branches of the
federal govt. in the national retreat from the commitment to equality for the freedmen.